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Article History

Received: 19 July 2024

Accepted: 5 November 2024

First Online: 28 January 2025

Declarations

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: The University of Essex Ethics Committee has approved all data collection on Understanding Society main study and innovation panel waves, including asking consent for all data linkages except to health records. Requesting consent for health record linkage was approved at Wave 1 by the National Research Ethics Service (NRES) Oxfordshire REC A (08/H0604/124), at BHPS Wave 18 by the NRES Royal Free Hospital & Medical School (08/H0720/60) and at Wave 4 by NRES Southampton REC A (11/SC/0274). Approval for the collection of biosocial data by trained nurses in Waves 2 and 3 of the main survey was obtained from the National Research Ethics Service (Understanding Society – UK Household Longitudinal Study: A Biosocial Component, Oxfordshire A REC, Reference: 10/H0604/2). For further details on the various committees which have provided ethical approval of the Understanding Society study and its components as appropriate see below:

: By letter dated 6 July 2007 for Waves 1 and 2. By letter dated 17 December 2010 for Waves 3 to 5. By letter dated 20 August 2013 for Waves 6 to 8. By letter dated 4 October 2016 for Waves 9–11. Ethics Approval number ETH1920-0123 for Wave 12.number ETH2021-0015 for Wave 13. Ethics Approval number ETH2122-0246 for Wave 14. Ethics Approval number ETH2223-0264 for Wave 15. Ethics approval number 22/EE/0260 was received from the NHS Research Ethics Committee for Wave 16.

: Not Applicable.

: The authors have declared no competing interest.