Exploring British Society : 1979 General Household Survey Teaching Dataset

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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.

Random sample from the original GHS

Compilation or synthesis of existing material

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-3159-1
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=0a2fcf80cba2e83b73471d1eb3e917a69e96d12eae1f1ba43e3255d34ab8276d
Provenance
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
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 1994
Funding Reference Nuffield Foundation, Small Grants Scheme
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Representation
Discipline Economics; History; Humanities; Social and Behavioural Sciences
Spatial Coverage Great Britain