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The British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), carried out at the Institute for Social and Economic Research of the

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, is a

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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 The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) is a longitudinal panel survey of American families, conducted by the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan. The PSID measures economic, social, and health factors over the life course of f ...

(PSID), established in the 1960s at the

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, 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 short or long periods of time (i.e., uses longitudinal data). It is often a type of obs ...

. The BHPS was funded by the

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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

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and the

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(CNEF) which contains panel data from Australia, Canada, Germany, Great Britain and the United States.

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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 {{socio-stub

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