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United Kingdom General Household Survey 2006 - UK Data Service

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General Info
Provider 
UK Data Service
Microdata access: Request
Geography 
United Kingdom (GBR)
England, Scotland, Wales
Coverage type 
Subnational
Time period covered 
01/2006 - 12/2006
Series or system 
United Kingdom General Household Survey
Data type
Survey:
  • Cross-sectional
  • Household
  • Individual
  • Interview
Summary 

The General Household Survey (GHS) is a multi-purpose continuous survey carried out since 1971 to collect basic information on people living in private households in the United Kingdom. In 2005, the GHS adopted a longitudinal design, but the 2006 dataset is cross-sectional, as it only contains data from 2006.

Two questionnaires were used for the survey: one for the household and one for the individual (an adult age 16 or older). Out of a sample of 13,316 households, a total of 9,731 households and 22,924 individuals were successfully interviewed.

The survey covered household characteristics, housing conditions and assets, employment, health and use of health services, smoking and drinking, marriage, cohabitation, and fertility.

Keywords 
Agriculture, Alcohol use, Allergies, Assets, Asthma, Blood disorders, Cancers, Cardiovascular and circulatory diseases, Child care, Child health care, Chronic kidney diseases, Chronic respiratory diseases, Community health clinics, Dentists, Digestive diseases, Disability, Education, Employment, Employment benefits, Endocrine disorders, Epilepsy, Ethnicity, Family composition, Family size, Fertility, Fishing, Gynecological diseases, Health care access, Health care personnel, Health care use, Health insurance, Health status, Hearing loss, Hospitals, Hours worked, Household deaths, Household heat, Housing conditions, Income, Infectious diseases, International migration, Lab personnel, Leisure activities, Length of stay, Live births, Marital status, Marriage age, Mental and behavioral disorders, Military service, Mining, Musculoskeletal diseases, Neurological conditions, Nurses, Occupation codes, Occupations, Oral conditions, Physical therapists, Physicians, Poverty, Pregnancy, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Public social assistance, Race, Sanitation, School enrollment, Sense organ diseases, Skin diseases, Summary birth history, Surgeons, Teachers, Telephones, Tobacco smoking, Transportation, Unemployment, Urinary diseases, Vision loss, Water supply, Working conditions
GHDx Entry last modified on: Mar 3, 2022