LPS Harmonised Demographic Dataset (full)

LPS Harmonised Demographic Dataset (full)#

Last modified: 27 Oct 2025

UK LLC has created a harmonised dataset of key demographic variables across the partner LPS.
More information about this dataset is available here.

1. Summary#

The full LPS harmonised demographic dataset contains harmonised variables for sex, gender, year of birth and ethnic group. This dataset retains every relevant response provided by participants. For example, if a participant was asked to confirm their ethnic group on five separate occasions, then that individual will have five occurrences of ethnicity in this dataset.

Dataset Descriptor Dataset-specific Information
Name of Dataset in TRE UKLLC_rtn_lps_sociodemo_harmonised_full
Citation (APA) UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration. (2025). UK LLC Managed: LPS Harmonised Demographic Dataset (full). UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration (UK LLC). https://doi.org/10.71760/ukllc-dataset-00442-01
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Series UK LLC Managed
Owner UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration
Temporal Coverage Unknown - Unknown
Keywords harmonised sociodemographic ethnicity age sex
Participant Count 333610
Number of variables 8
Number of observations 1374079
Specific Restrictions to Data Use None
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2. Variables#

Variable name

Variable description

LLC_xxxx_stud_id

Individual identifier (unique to each project in the TRE)

cohort

LPS name

source

LPS dataset holding the original demographic variable(s) for each participant (e.g. ALSPAC_wave1y)

object

Label indicating which of the harmonised variables is represented by the value (e.g. llc_sex, llc_gender)

value

Numeric value for each of the objects

label

Description of what each of the values represents

llc_timestamp

Date (month and year) on which the information was provided by the participant to the LPS

3. Version History#

Version 1
Version Date 04 Jun 2025
Number of Variables 8
Number of Observations 1374079
DOI 10.71760/ukllc-dataset-00442-01
Change Log 10.71760/ukllc-dataset-00442-01/activities

4. Useful Syntax#

Below we will include syntax that may be helpful to other researchers in the UK LLC TRE. For longer scripts, we will include a snippet of the code plus a link to Git where you can find the full scripts.