CPC General Household Survey Database published

The General Household Survey (GHS) data were originally collected and compiled by the Office for National Statistics and made available by the UK Data Archive. CPC members Eva Beaujouan, Maire Ní Bhrolcháin, Ann Berrington and Jane Falkingham have worked to extract and harmonise the GHS data across annual rounds.

CPC has created a single data file, the General Household Survey Database, 1979-2009, which contains a time series of repeated cross-sectional GHS survey data on demographic histories relating to fertility, marriage and cohabitation. With the new data resource, CPC members have been able to analyse the changing dynamics of childbearing and partnership over recent decades. They have focused especially on examining determinants of the changing timetable of fertility and partnership.

The database can be found in the UK Data Service Catalogue and is accompanied by CPC Working Paper 47: User guide to the Centre for Population Change GHS database 1979-2009

Posted 22/05/2015 08:42