Summary information
Study title
General Household Survey, 1987: Teaching Dataset
Creator
Arber, S., University of Surrey, Department of Sociology
Study number / PID
3160 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-3160-1 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Not available
Abstract
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.
The 1987 GHS Teaching Data Set has been prepared solely for the purpose of teaching and student use. Most of the names of variables and value labels are those used in the original GHS files. However, some variables have been recoded for ease of use and may vary from the original GHS data.
Main Topics:
Housing; consumer durables; socio-demographic characteristics; household structure; health and use of health services; economic status; information about employment and social class; father's social class; educational attainment; income; share ownership; voluntary work; pension membership.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
Not availableCountry
Great Britain
Time dimension
Cross-sectional (one-time) study
compiled using data from the GHS 1987, a repeated cross-sectional study
Analysis unit
Individuals
National
Teaching packages
Universe
4162 men and women aged 16 and over (random 1 in 5 sample from the 1987 GHS).
Sampling procedure
One in five and one in four samples of the original data
Kind of data
Not availableData 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
Not available