Life Opportunities Survey (LOS)
The LOS was a large-scale longitudinal survey that explored disability in terms of the social barriers to participation that people experience in Great Britain, United Kingdom. Private households were randomly sampled from across Great Britain based on postcodes and invited to participate. At wave one, over 30,000 adults with and without impairments from across nearly 20,000 households participated in the survey. Participating households provided data at three time points: Wave One (2009 - 2011), Wave Two (2010 - 2012) and Wave Three (2012 - 2014).
Study design
Cohort, Household panel
Number of participants at first data collection
19,950 (households)
Age at first data collection
Varied (households)
Participant year of birth
Varied (households)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
No
Sample features
Countries
Year of first data collection
2009
Primary Institutions
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
Office for National Statistics (ONS)
Profile paper DOI
Not available
Funders
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
Ongoing?
No
Data types collected
- Interview – face-to-face
- Interview – phone
- Self-completed questionnaire – unspecified
- Ethnography or participant observation
- Interviews or focus groups
- None
- None
Engagement
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