The life histories collected in the second wave of the BHPS are used to study the changing importance of cohabitation without legal marriage and childbearing within such unions in Britain, comparing the experiences of two broad cohorts of women: those born during 1950- 62 and those born after...

Britain has always been one of the most important destinations for Irish emigrants. For information on their experience as immigrants we have two main sources: the personal experience of anecdote, journalism and other writing on the one hand, and Census (and more recently Labour Force Survey)...

This paper has used the British Household Panel Study to analyse womens flows into and out of lone parenthood in conjunction with other demographic transitions which affect the populations at risk to become lone parents. It is rates of partnership dissolution, out-of- partnership first birth and...

The paper provides an introduction to the research potential of household panel studies in general, and the British Household Panel, in particular. The relative strengths of longitudinal and cross sectional analysis are discussed. Panel studies however, are only one type of longitudinal design...

This study uses data from the 1958 birth cohort, collected in the British National Child Development study. and from the British Household Panel Study, to model the dynamics of young peoples first entry to either owner-occupation or tenancy in social housing and subsequent tenure changes. The...

Using data for 1991 to 1997 from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), this research investigates the reasons to move house and the extent and determinants of house moves. In particular, we examine the relationships between labour market dynamics and residential mobility. Panel data allow...

Estimates based on couples with dependent children in the first six years of the British Household Panel Study (1991-97) indicate that changes in a couples economic circumstances affect the probability that a partnership dissolves. In particular, unexpected improvements in finances substantially...