Study title
Exploring British Society : 1979 General Household Survey Teaching Dataset
Creator
Study number / PID
3159 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-3159-1 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Abstract
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The 1979 GHS Teaching Data Set <i>Exploring British Society</i> is a series of four data sets based on the General Household Survey intended for undergraduate sociology and social science students.
Main Topics:
Each data set contains 30-50 variables. The main topics of each of the four data sets are: 1. Class and Stratification: social mobility; social characteristics of marital partners; embourgeoisement and convergence thesis
2.Sexual Divisions: labour market participation of women and men; occupational sex segregation; gender inequalities in educational achievement; income and fringe benefits.
3.Poverty and Income: characteristics of the poor; comparison of richest and poorest families.
4.The Elderly: demographic characteristics; social class; income and living conditions; health and use of health services.
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Methodology
Data collection period
Not availableCountry
Time dimension
Analysis unit
Universe
1.Class and Stratification: random sample of 1809 men and women aged 20-59 from the 1979 GHS. 2.Sexual Divisions: random sample of 2000 women and men aged 20-59 from the 1979 GHS. 3.Poverty and Income: random sample of 2000 familes from the 1979 GHS. 4.The Elderly: random sample of 2101 men and women aged 65 and over from the 1979 GHS.
Sampling procedure
Kind of data
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Access
Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
1994
Terms of data access
The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.
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