British Household Panel Survey

The British Household Panel Survey (BHPS for short) was a representative, annual follow-up survey in the UK carried out from 1991 to 2009 at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex .

In the first wave, 5500 households and 10,300 persons were recorded. Additional samples were added in 1999 and 2001. The original goals were to understand social and economic change in Britain and, from the 11th wave, finally for the United Kingdom. Since the 19th wave, the study has been integrated into the Understanding Society or United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS for short), which is still carried out by ISER.

The BHPS was designed as an annual survey for all persons aged 16 and over in a household. As soon as a person left a household and started their own household, this and all new persons were also included. From the 4th wave (1994), children between the ages of 11 and 15 were also recorded in a special questionnaire. In wave 9, additional samples from Wales and Scotland were added, taking the Welsh language into account . Finally, in wave 11, Northern Ireland was included.

The information collected is available free of charge to researchers around the world (in popular formats such as SPSS or Stata ).

Comparable long-term studies are the Socio-Economic Panel in Germany or the Panel Study of Income Dynamics in the United States.

Web links

• British Household Panel Survey - On the part of the University of Essex