British Household Panel Survey: Waves 1-13, 1991-2004: Teaching Dataset (Time Use, Leisure and Social Memberships)

This BHPS teaching/sampler dataset contains only Wave 1 respondents, and follows them for 13 waves, selecting broadly the same variables at each wave. There are some (fixed) variables which are only included at wave one, and there are a few variables which only appear intermittently, or are introduced later in the panel. The dataset contains a mix of original variables and derived variables. <br> <br> In order to reduce the complexity of the data's structure and to make the data more accessible to inexperienced users, the dataset is in a rectangular format. Users are not required to undertake potentially problematic record/file merges in order to analyse the data longitudinally. <br> <br> Variable names are the same as those in the original BHPS dataset such that variables are prefixed A for Wave 1, B for Wave 2, C for Wave 3 and so on. For example, the variable EAGE records the respondent's age at the date of the Wave 5 interview.<br> <br> The main BHPS is carried out by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex. The main objective of the survey is to further 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 unique value of the survey resides in that fact that:<ul><li>it follows the same representative sample of individuals (the panel) over a period of years</li><li>it is household-based, interviewing every adult member of sampled households</li><li>it contains sufficient cases for meaningful analysis of certain groups such as the elderly or one parent families</li><li>it allows for linkage of data both from other surveys and from local area statistics</li></ul>The BHPS was designed as an annual survey of each adult (aged 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 are re-interviewed in successive waves and, if they split off from original households, all adult members of their new households are also interviewed. Children are interviewed once they reach the age of 16, and there is also a special survey of 11-15 year old household members from Wave 4. Efficient fieldwork practices, training videos for interviewers and regular contact with the panel members ensures that the sample remains broadly representative of the population as it changes over time.<br> <br> For the second edition (November 2011), erroneous syntax used to match files across waves has now been corrected.<br>

本英国家庭面板研究（British Household Panel Survey, BHPS）教学用抽样数据集仅包含第一波（Wave 1）的受访者，并对其开展了13波次追踪调查，每波次均选取大体一致的变量。部分（固定）变量仅在第一波（Wave 1）中收录，另有少量变量仅间歇性出现，或在追踪后期才被纳入数据集。本数据集同时包含原始变量与衍生变量。

为降低数据结构复杂度，同时让经验不足的用户更易使用本数据集，其采用矩形数据格式存储。用户无需执行可能存在风险的记录/文件合并操作，即可开展纵向数据分析。

变量命名规则与原始BHPS数据集保持一致，即第一波（Wave 1）变量以A为前缀，第二波（Wave 2）为B、第三波（Wave 3）为C，依此类推。例如，变量EAGE记录了受访者在第五波（Wave 5）访谈当日的年龄。

BHPS主体调查由埃塞克斯大学社会与经济研究所（Institute for Social and Economic Research, ISER）负责实施。本调查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，识别、建模并预测这类变迁及其与一系列社会经济变量相关的成因与影响。BHPS旨在为多门社会科学学科提供研究支撑资源，并助力众多领域的跨学科研究。本调查的独特价值体现在以下几点：
- 多年来持续追踪同一代表性个体样本（即追踪面板）；
- 以家庭为调查单元，对抽中家庭的所有成年成员开展访谈；
- 样本规模充足，可支持对老年群体、单亲家庭等特定群体开展有实质意义的分析；
- 支持与其他调查数据及区域统计数据进行关联整合。

BHPS最初设计为年度调查，抽样覆盖全国5000余户家庭，对所有16岁及以上的成年家庭成员开展访谈，总访谈量约1万次。后续各波次将对同一受访者进行回访；若受访者脱离原家庭组建新家庭，则对新家庭中的所有成年成员一并开展访谈。子女年满16岁后将接受访谈，自第四波（Wave 4）起，调查还针对11至15岁的家庭成员增设专项调查模块。高效的实地调查流程、针对访员的培训视频，以及与追踪样本成员的常态化沟通机制，确保样本随时间推移仍能大体保持对总体人口的代表性。

该数据集第二版（2011年11月发布）已修正了此前用于跨波次文件匹配的错误语法。