3953 BRITISH HOUSEHOLD PANEL SURVEY. - WAVES 1-7, 1991-1998        

The latest copy of the BHPS, including 1998 Wave 7 data, is now available
from the Data Archive and can either be ordered on-line 
http://dawww.essex.ac.uk/ordering_data/ or by post/email - contact Alison
Roddham 01206 872143 [log in to unmask]

For more information about these data see our on-line catalogue BIRON -
http://dawww.essex.ac.uk/
or the BHPS webpages - http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/bhps/index.html 


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General Information about the BHPS:
The British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) is carried out by the Institute
for Social and Economic Research (incorporating the ESRC Research Centre on
Micro-social Change) at the University of Essex. The main objective of the
survey is to further our understanding of social and economic change at the
individual and household level in Britain, to identify, model and forecast
such changes, their causes and consequences in relation to a range of
socio-economic variables. The BHPS is designed as a research resource for a
wide range of social science disciplines and to support interdisciplinary
research in many areas. 

The BHPS was designed as an annual survey of each adult (16+) member of a
nationally representative sample of more than 5,000 households, making a
total of approximately 10,000 individual interviews. The same individuals
will be re-interviewed in successive waves and, if they split-off from
original households, all adult members of their new households will also be
interviewed. Children are interviewed once they reach the age of 16; there
is also a special survey of 11-15 year old household members from Wave Four.
Thus the sample should remain broadly representative of the population of
Britain as it changes through the 1990s. 
 

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