Why do you want to link administrative data to my survey answers?

Government departments and agencies collect information to help them provide a service to us all. We would like to link the information they have about your use of some of these services to your survey answers. If you let us do this, it will make the information you have given us even more useful. The information held in administrative records is more detailed than we can go into during the Understanding Society interview. This extra level of detail can be used by researchers looking at how our health, education or receipt of social security benefits affects – and is affected by – other parts of our lives.