Access to data and documentation

• Data: Available on drive S: on the Summer School network
  • SPSS format in S:\bhps\spss\*.sav
  • Stata format in S:\bhps\stata\*.dta
• Structure:
  • Many files per wave, initial letter distinguishes, including
    • wEGOALT: defines relationships within household
    • wHHRESP: data from the household questionnaire
    • wINDRESP: data from this individual questionnaire
    • wJOBHIST: inter-wave job history
    • wYOUTH: youth questionnaire

• Documentation: almost as vast as the data set!
  • Online: http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/ulsc/bhps/doc/
  • Detailed hyperlinked documentation and complete questionnaires
  • Downloadable PDF versions of all documentation