British Household Panel Survey: Waves 1-11, 1991-2002: Teaching Dataset (Social and Political Attitudes)

This BHPS teaching/sampler dataset contains only wave one respondents, and follows them for eleven 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 one, B for wave two, C for wave three and so on. For example, the variable EAGE records the respondent's age at the date of the wave five interview.<br> <br> <i>The Main BHPS</i><br> <br> The 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:<br> <br> <li>it follows the same representative sample of individuals - the panel - over a period of years; </li><br> <li>it is household-based, interviewing every adult member of sampled households; </li><br> <li>it contains sufficient cases for meaningful analysis of certain groups such as the elderly or one parent families; <br> <li>it allows for linkage of data both from other surveys and from local area statistics. </li><br> <br> The BHPS was designed as an annual survey of each adult (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; there is also a special survey of 11-15 year old household members from wave four. 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>

本英国家庭追踪调查（British Household Panel Survey，BHPS）教学/抽样数据集仅包含第一波调查的受访者，并对其进行了11波的追踪，每一波均选取大致相同的变量。部分（固定）变量仅在第一波调查中收录，另有少量变量仅间歇性出现，或在追踪后期才被引入。本数据集同时包含原始变量与衍生变量。<br> <br> 为降低数据结构复杂度，便于新手用户使用，本数据集采用矩形格式存储。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。<br> <br> 变量命名规则与原始BHPS数据集保持一致：第一波调查的变量以A为前缀，第二波以B为前缀，第三波以C为前缀，依此类推。例如，变量EAGE代表受访者在第五波调查访谈时的年龄。<br> <br> <i>《主要英国家庭追踪调查》</i><br> <br> BHPS由埃塞克斯大学社会与经济研究所（Institute for Social and Economic Research, ISER）开展。本调查的核心目标是加深对英国个体与家庭层面社会经济变迁的理解，识别、建模并预测此类变迁及其与一系列社会经济变量相关的成因与后果。BHPS旨在为多门社会科学学科提供研究资源，并支持多领域的跨学科研究。本调查的独特价值体现在以下方面：<br> <br> <li>它对具有代表性的同一组个体样本（即追踪面板）进行多年追踪；</li><br> <li>它以家庭为调查单位，对抽中家庭中的所有成年成员进行访谈；</li><br> <li>它包含足够的样本量，可对老年群体、单亲家庭等特定群体开展有意义的分析；</li><br> <li>它支持将本调查数据与其他调查数据及地区统计数据进行关联。</li><br> <br> BHPS最初设计为针对具有全国代表性的5000余户家庭的年度调查，受访对象为每户家庭中16岁及以上的成年成员，总访谈量约为10000人次。同一组个体在后续各波调查中会被再次访谈，若他们脱离原家庭，则其新家庭中的所有成年成员也会被纳入访谈。儿童年满16岁后即可接受访谈；自第四波调查起，还针对11至15岁的家庭住户成员开展专项调查。高效的实地执行流程、面向访员的培训视频，以及与追踪面板成员的常态化沟通，确保样本能够随时间推移始终大致保持全国人口的代表性。<br> <br> 2011年11月发布的第二版修正了此前用于跨波数据匹配的错误语法。<br>