The Scottish Household Panel Survey
| Date | 01 August 2000 |
| Author | Robert E. Wright,Heather M. Laurie |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9485.00166 |
| Published date | 01 August 2000 |
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Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 47, No. 3, August 2000
#Scottish Economic Society 2000.Publ ishedby Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1JF, UK and
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THE SCOTTISH HOUSEHOLD PANEL SURVEY
Heather M. Laurieand Robert E. Wright
IINTRODUCING THE BHPS
In 1989 the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC ) established the
Research Centre on Micro-social Change (recently subsumed into the Institute for
Social and Economic Research [ISER])attheUniversity of Essex, whose prime
responsibility was to collect the data for the British Household Panel Survey
(BHPS). The BHPS is a multi-purpose study whose unique value resides in the
fact that it follows the same representative sample of individuals over time, and in
this sense is a true `panel' dataset. Detailed socio-economic, work history,
demographic and attitudinal information is collected for all adult members (aged
16 years or over) of the respondent household. Data for the first wave (Wave 1)
was collected in 1991 and consisted of some 5,500 households and 10,300
individuals drawn from 250 different areas of Great Britain, including Scotland
and Wales (Northern Ireland was not included in the survey). To date there have
been eight waves, and at the time of writing (February 2000), the ninth wave (Wave
337
TABLE 1
British household panel survey sample sizes
interviewed households (H) and individuals (N) by nationÐ Wave 1 to Wave 8
England Scotland Wales
Total Great
Britain
HNHNHNH N
1991 4699 8774 531 957 281 533 5511 10264
1992 4457 8406 508 927 260 510 5225 9843
1993 4466 8215 498 894 268 491 5232 9600
1994 4365 8099 489 873 273 509 5127 9481
1995 4288 7915 475 843 270 491 5033 9249
1996 4342 8134 452 823 269 480 5063 9437
1997 5056 9340 568 1024 330 573 5954 10937
1998 5026 9184 543 928 326 572 5895 10684
Notes:
The numbers for 1997 and 1998 include a sub-sample of 1,000 households taken from the Great Britain
sample for the European Community Household Panel Survey which was added to the BHPS sample in 1997
and has since been interviewed as part of the BHPS.
University of Essex
University of Stirling; Centre for Economic Policy Research, London; and University of
Bonn
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