Support #465
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Immediate - BHPS data access help
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Dear Understanding Society User Support,
I have registered for the UK Data Service and acquired BHPS data for my dissertation. However, I have found it difficult to find data on household’s wealth, financial and housing assets and consumption. Looking at the summary table I noticed that waves 5,10 and 15 include information on wealth, assets and debt.
I would be very grateful if you would be able to help me find and access information on the following variables or others of a similar nature from at least 3 waves or more:
Household makeup / structure / type
Household income
Household wealth
Household financial assets
Household housing/property assets
Updated by Redmine Admin almost 10 years ago
- Category changed from Data documentation to Data analysis
- Assignee set to Alita Nandi
Updated by Alita Nandi almost 10 years ago
All household level questions are asked in the household questionnaire. You can search for these variables by looking at the useful online documentation:
https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/bhps/documentation
Click on the MENU button on the top right corner and you will see different options of searching/finding these variables:
"Questionnaires and Survey Documents" - access the questionnaires, secifically look at the household questionnaires.
"Thesaurus" & "Index Terms" - search by key words and themes
"Record Types" - this will show you the list of all data files. If you click on any file you will find a list of all the variables within that file and a short description of that variable. Look at the files "whhresp" - ahhresp, bhhresp, chhresp etc. These include the variables corresponding to the questions in the household questionnaire. Also take a look at "windall" - it is an individual level file which includes some basic demographic information on every household member of responding households (including non-responding adults and children).
Best wishes,
On behalf of the team.
Updated by Victoria Nolan over 9 years ago
- Assignee changed from Alita Nandi to Christopher Booth
Updated by Victoria Nolan over 9 years ago
- Status changed from In Progress to Closed
- % Done changed from 90 to 100