September 2019

Social cohesion and community attachment: analysis of the Understanding Society Survey

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The findings reported here are from an analysis of data from the Understanding Society Survey (USS) [1]
which follows a large sample of people from across Britain over time. This study was undertaken to examine
questions likely to be especially relevant for those working in the field of public health intelligence, using
small area statistics to identify localities where interventions may particularly need to be targeted in order to
reduce inequalities in wellbeing across England.

The main research questions were:

  • How did indicators measuring socio-economic conditions in the local areas where people lived relate to their perceptions of their neighbourhood and to their selfreported wellbeing as it changed over time?
  • Did individual’s self-reported wellbeing (reported in USS Wave 4 and Wave 7) relate to their perceptions of neighbourhood social cohesion and attachment (reported in Wave 3)?

The findings reported here relate to over 17,000 individuals living in England (a subset of people surveyed in
USS), for whom we have complete data on the variables of interest, collected over time.

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