This paper provides an integrated interpretation of qualitative and quantitative data examining how couples respond when one partner loses their job. According to economic theory there may be an ‘Added Worker Effect’ where, when one partner loses their job, their spouse enters the...

This paper presents some preliminary findings from the Wave 2 Innovation Panel (IP2) of Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study. Understanding Society is a major new panel survey for the UK. In April 2009, the second wave of the Innovation Panel was fielded. This paper...

This paper discusses the design decisions made in the incorporation of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), a long-running household panel survey in the UK, into a new and larger study, Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study. The paper sets out the background to the new...

This analysis provides information on the employment and household circumstances of homeworkers in Britain in 1991. The extent of homeworking in Britain is reported with those working at home being distinguished from those working from home. For the purposes of this report it is the former group...