The National Institute of Economic and Social Research is Britain's longest establishedindependent research institute, founded in 1938. The vision of our founders was to carry outresearch to improve understanding of the economic and social forces that affect people’s lives,and the ways in which policy can bring about change. Over eighty years later, this remainscentral to NIESR’s ethos. We continue to apply our expertise in both quantitative and qualitativemethods and our understandi