Arbeitspapier

The British household panel survey and its income data

This paper provides a self-contained introduction to the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), concentrating on aspects relevant to analysis of the distribution of household income. I discuss BHPS design features and how data on net household income are derived. The BHPS net household income definition is modelled on that used in Britain's official personal income distribution statistics (Households Below Average Income, HBAI). I show that cross-sectional BHPS distributions track corresponding HBAI ones relatively well over time.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ISER Working Paper Series ; No. 2010-33

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data; Data Access
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
Thema
British Household Panel Survey
household income
net income
disposable income
Households Below Average Income
income distribution
inequality
poverty
Mikrozensus
Haushaltsbudget-Statistik
Befragung
Panel
Haushaltseinkommen
Sozialstruktur
Niedrigeinkommen
Einkommensverteilung
Großbritannien

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Jenkins, Stephen P.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
(wo)
Colchester
(wann)
2010

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Jenkins, Stephen P.
  • University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)

Entstanden

  • 2010

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