The Northern
Ireland Household Panel Survey (NIHPS) is an extension of the long-running British
Household Panel Survey (BHPS).
The advantage of the NIHPS over other surveys carried out in Northern
Ireland is that:
- it follows
the same representative sample of individuals - the panel - over
a period of years;
- it is household-based,
interviewing every adult member in the sampled households;
- the data are
directly comparable with the BHPS.
The
NIHPS enables researchers in Northern Ireland to carry out the kinds
of analyses that have proved so useful in Britain – tracking
the movement within societies of individuals and families across
the years to reveal changing social patterns in areas such as social
mobility, wealth and poverty and health.
NIHPS Wave 1
Wave 1 of the
NIHPS consists of around 2,000 households and 3,500 individuals drawn
from across Northern Ireland. Fieldwork for Wave 1 of the NIHPS and
Wave 11 of the BHPS took place in 2001.The fieldwork in Northern
Ireland is carried out by CSU.
There are now 8 waves of data available for analyses. The data for
the whole of the UK, which includes the NIHPS, are available from
the UK Data Archive.
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From
2001 to 2005 the NIHPS Analysis Unit was funded by NISRA, and from October 2006 by the ESRC, to promote the NIHPS and to:
- facilitate
users in their analysis of the data and to work with them to
develop stand-alone projects arising from the data
- exploit the
data for the benefit of the entire research community in Northern
Ireland;
- exploit the data
to its maximum benefit for policymaking.
Click here to
see examples of what the NIHPS data have been used for to date.
NIHPS data
Data from Waves 1 to 8 of the NIHPS are available
now and can be obtained from the UK data archive. To see a list of the variable components
that have been included in the first 8 waves of the NIHPS, click here.
NIHPS Workshop
A half-day workshop 'An introduction to Stata using the Northern Ireland
Household Panel Survey' took place on 22nd January 2009 at Queen’s
University Belfast. The course was facilitated by Dr Katrina Lloyd
(ARK) and Patricia McKee (UU). You can download a copy of the Powerpoint Overheads and
the Stata
worksheet used in the workshop.
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NIHPS Seminars
The most recent NIHPS seminar used net income data from the first 4 waves
to examine persistent child poverty in Northern Ireland (ARK in partnership with Save the Children).
To see the powerpoint presentation click here and for a summary of the Research
Update that accompanied the seminar click here.
In
2005, a seminar ‘Parenting in Northern Ireland, using data
from Wave 3 of the NIHPS, was carried out in conjunction with the Parenting Forum NI. To see the ARK powerpoint presentation click here and to see the Parenting Forum NI presentation
from the seminar click here. A Research Update entitled ‘Bringing up
baby’ was also produced from the parenting data. To view
the update, click here.
A
NIHPS seminar 'Taking the long view: The contribution of panel surveys
to the measurement of ill-health and deprivation' was held on 7th
April 2005 in the Institute of Governance, Queen's University Belfast.
To access the seminar presentations click here.
Understanding Society
A new survey
- Understanding Society (US) - began in 2009 and will eventually
incorporate the NIHPS and increase the sample size. It is expected
that by January 2011 the NIHPS and US samples will be fully integrated
together. US will provide valuable new evidence about the people
of the UK, their lives, experiences, behaviours and beliefs..The
topics covered by the survey include: standard of living measures,
family relationships, environmental issues, health and wellbeing
and psychological attributes.
Further information
on US can be found by clicking here |
