A survey of people aged between eleven and fifteen inclusive which was added to the BHPS in its fourth wave asked a range of questions but focusing especially on health, health awareness, and aspects of psychological well-being. These included questions on smoking and on attitudes to smoking....

This paper presents evidence about the nature and extent of memory recall problems when identifying unemployment spells in work history data collected by retrospective interview techniques. The analysis compares data from two sources; the British Household Panel Study and the Family and Working...

This paper uses the retrospective work history data from the British Household Panel Survey to examine patterns of job mobility and job tenure for men and women over the twentieth century. British men and women hold an average of five jobs over their lifetimes, and half of all lifetime job...

The conventional approach to modelling family labour supply is to estimate a system of two-adult equations on micro data sets providing information on female and male hours of market work and aggregate family consumption of market goods. Information on all individual consumptions, including pure...