British Household Panel Survey, Waves 1-18, 1991-2009: Special Licence Access, Primary Care Trusts

The main <i>British Household Panel Survey</i> (BHPS) is conducted by the <a href="http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/ulsc/" title="ESRC UK Longitudinal Studies Centre">ESRC UK Longitudinal Studies Centre</a> (ULSC), together with the <a href="http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/" title="Institute for Social and Economic Research">Institute for Social and Economic Research</a> (ISER) at the University of Essex. In addition to conducting the BHPS and disseminating it to the research community, ISER undertakes a programme of research based on panel data, using the BHPS and other national panels to monitor and measure social change. <br> <br> The main objective of the BHPS is to further understanding of social and economic change at the individual and household level in the UK, and to identify, model and forecast such changes and their causes and consequences in relation to a range of socio-economic variables. It is conducted as a longitudinal study, where each adult member (aged 16 years and over) of a sampled household is interviewed annually. If individuals leave their original household, all adult members of their new households are interviewed. Children are also interviewed. For full details of the BHPS methodology, sampling, changes over time, and a complete set of documentation, see the main BHPS study, held at the UK Data Archive under SN 5151. <br> <br> <b>Understanding Society:</b><br> From Wave 19, the BHPS has been subsumed into a new longitudinal study called <i>Understanding Society</i>, or the United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS), conducted by ISER. The BHPS Wave 19 formed part of Understanding Society Wave 2 (January 2010 - March 2011). The BHPS fieldwork period therefore moved from September-April to January-March. This means that the gap between interviews 18 and 19 for the BHPS sample ranges between 16 and 30 months rather than the standard 12 months. From Wave 2, the BHPS sample has been a permanent part of the larger study and interviews are conducted annually again. BHPS sample members have an identifier within the Understanding Society datasets, allowing BHPS users to match BHPS Wave 1-18 data to <i>Understanding Society</i>. The main Understanding Society study, held under SN 6614 now includes harmonised BHPS data in addition to the main Understanding Society files. Further information is available on the <a href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/" title ="Understanding Society">Understanding Society</a> web site.<br> <br> <br> This dataset contains Primary Care Trusts (PCT) geographic variables for each wave of the BHPS and a household identification serial number for file matching to the main BHPS data. This dataset is subject to restrictive access conditions, different to those for the main BHPS: see Information box on the right or Access section below.<br> <br> For the fourth edition (January 2014) revised geographic data files for each wave have been deposited. The documentation has also been updated.<br> <br>

核心的英国家庭追踪调查（British Household Panel Survey, BHPS）由<a href="http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/ulsc/" title="ESRC UK Longitudinal Studies Centre">经济和社会研究理事会英国纵向研究中心（ESRC UK Longitudinal Studies Centre, ULSC）</a>与埃塞克斯大学<a href="http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/" title="Institute for Social and Economic Research">社会与经济研究所（Institute for Social and Economic Research, ISER）</a>联合开展。除了实施BHPS并向研究社群发布数据外，ISER还依托面板数据开展研究项目，利用BHPS及其他国家面板数据监测、衡量社会变迁。<br><br>BHPS的核心目标是深化对英国个体与家庭层面社会经济变迁的认知，并针对一系列社会经济变量，对这类变迁及其成因与后果进行识别、建模与预测。该调查采用纵向研究设计，对抽样家庭中年满16周岁的成年成员进行年度访谈。若研究对象脱离原家庭，则会对其新家庭的所有成年成员开展访谈；儿童也需接受访谈。如需了解BHPS的方法学、抽样方案、历年变更及完整文档体系，请查阅英国数据档案馆中编号为SN 5151的BHPS主研究档案。<br><br><b>理解社会（Understanding Society）</b><br>自第19波起，BHPS被纳入一项由ISER开展的全新纵向研究——<i>理解社会（Understanding Society）</i>，又称英国家庭纵向研究（United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study, UKHLS）。BHPS第19波数据属于理解社会第2波（2010年1月—2011年3月）的组成部分。因此BHPS的实地调查周期从原有的9月至次年4月调整为1月至3月，这意味着BHPS样本的第18次与第19次访谈间隔从标准的12个月变为16至30个月。自第2波起，BHPS样本成为该大型研究的永久组成部分，访谈再次恢复年度周期。BHPS样本成员在理解社会数据集内拥有专属标识符，方便BHPS用户将BHPS第1—18波数据与理解社会数据集进行匹配。当前编号为SN 6614的理解社会主研究档案，除核心的理解社会数据集外，还纳入了经过统一化处理的BHPS数据。更多相关信息可查阅<a href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/" title="Understanding Society">理解社会（Understanding Society）</a>官方网站。<br><br><br>本数据集包含BHPS各波次的初级保健信托基金（Primary Care Trusts, PCT）地理变量，以及用于与BHPS主数据集进行文件匹配的家庭标识序列号。本数据集受限制性访问条款约束，与BHPS主数据集的访问规则不同：详情请参阅右侧信息框或下文的访问章节。<br><br>2014年第4版修订版中，各波次的修订地理数据文件已完成归档，配套文档也已同步更新。<br><br>