The British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), carried out at the Institute for Social and Economic Research of the
University of Essex
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, is a
survey for social and economic research. A sample of British households was drawn and first interviewed in 1991. The members of these original households have since been followed and annually interviewed. The resulting data base is very popular among social scientists for quantitative analyses of social and economic change. One of the most important precursors of the BHPS is the
Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), established in the 1960s at the
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan (U-M, U of M, or Michigan) is a public university, public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Mi ...
, Ann Arbor (US). The initial BHPS sample consisted of 10,300 individuals across Great Britain. Additional samples were recruited in Scotland and Wales in 1999 and the study was extended to Northern Ireland in 2001.
As a
panel survey it is a form of
longitudinal study
A longitudinal study (or longitudinal survey, or panel study) is a research design that involves repeated observations of the same variables (e.g., people) over long periods of time (i.e., uses longitudinal data). It is often a type of observationa ...
. The BHPS was funded by the
Economic and Social Research Council
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), formerly the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), is part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). UKRI is a non-departmental public body (NDPB) funded by the UK government. ESRC provides fundi ...
from its inception in 1989 until 2008. Since 2008, the BHPS has been integrated into
Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study, still run from ISER.
BHPS data are integrated into the
European Community Household Panel and the
Cross National Equivalent File (CNEF) which contains panel data from Australia, Canada, Germany, Great Britain and the United States.
See also
*
Canadian Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID)
* ''German''
Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)
*
Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey (HILDA)
*
Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)
*
Survey on Household Income and Wealth (SHIW)
References
External links
Website for Understanding Society, the larger survey which now includes BHPSOfficial website of the BHPSAccess BHPS data via ESDS LongitudinalCross National Equivalent File (CNEF)
(URL accessed 2016-01-28)
Economic data
Household surveys
Panel data
Science and technology in Essex
University of Essex
Longitudinal sociological studies
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