Understanding Society – the UK Household Longitudinal Study blood samples Add to Contact List

Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) is a longitudinal social survey of households and individuals designed to be representative of the UK. Data collection began in January 2009 and participants are interviewed annually. In the second and third waves (2010-12) a wide range of objective health measures were collected by a nurse, including venous blood samples. From this data collection, the bank has frozen samples (unscreened human blood) from around 13,000 study participants of serum, whole blood and DNA. Understanding Society is conducting another wave of bio-data collection at Wave 16 (2024-26), including 10,000 capillary blood samples. These samples are being processed into serum and whole blood for analysis; left over samples will be frozen and stored in the bank where the participant has consented to this. We estimate that 9,000 frozen samples will be stored.

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Last Updated: 12/09/2024

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