What happens to my answers?

NatCen Social Research is conducting the Age 68 Survey on behalf of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies at UCL. NatCen holds your contact details during the survey period so that they can invite you to the survey and to complete the additional activities, and send reminders if needed.

The additional activities have been designed and are hosted by H2 Cognitive Designs, which means your activity responses are stored on their secure servers. H2 Cognitive Designs do not have access to your name or contact details. Once complete, H2 Cognitive Designs will securely transfer the data to UCL. NatCen will not receive any of your activity responses.

At UCL, researchers will use internal study ID numbers to combine your activity data with your survey responses — your name is never attached to your answers. This means that responses can never be identified.

As with all our surveys, your answers are combined with responses from other participants and made securely available to researchers via the UK Data Service and other trusted repositories. This data is used to inform research into your generation. Information that would identify you is removed from this data.

For more information on how your data is used, please visit our privacy page.