Summary information

Study title

Exploring British Society : 1979 General Household Survey Teaching Dataset

Creator

Arber, S., University of Surrey, Department of Sociology
Rajan, L., University of Surrey, Department of Sociology
Gilbert, G. N., University of Surrey, Department of Sociology
Dale, A., University of Surrey, Department of Sociology

Study number / PID

3159 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-3159-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.


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.

Topics

Not available

Methodology

Data collection period

Not available

Country

Great Britain

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

Individuals
National
Teaching packages

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

Random sample from the original GHS

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Compilation or synthesis of existing material

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.

Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.

Related publications

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