The <i>Opinions and Lifestyle Survey</i>, formerly known as <i>ONS Opinions Survey</i> or <i>Omnibus</i>, is a regular, multi-purpose survey which was carried out in eight months of the year from 1990 until April 2005, when it began to run monthly. Following the 'Fit for Future' consultation carried out by ONS at the beginning of 2014, the decision was taken to revert to running the survey in eight months of the year only; therefore from April 2014...

The <i>Opinions and Lifestyle Survey</i>, formerly known as <i>ONS Opinions Survey</i> or <i>Omnibus</i>, is a regular, multi-purpose survey which was carried out in eight months of the year from 1990 until April 2005, when it began to run monthly. Following the 'Fit for Future' consultation carried out by ONS at the beginning of 2014, the decision was taken to revert to running the survey in eight months of the year only; therefore from April 2014...

For the second edition (July 2012), previously unavailable variables Linstype2-10 and Minstype2-12 were added to the rawhh file. The documentation remains unchanged.<br> <br> <i>Background</i>:<br /> A household food consumption and expenditure survey has been conducted each year in Great Britain (excluding Northern Ireland) since 1940. At that time the <I>National Food Survey</I> (NFS) covered a sample drawn solely from urban working-class households, but this was extended to a fully demographically representative sample in 1950. From...

This research aimed to investigate the causal effect of reproductive health on poverty, primarily using data from Malawi on randomised interventions that relate specifically to reproductive health. The following poverty indicators were included: household consumption, female labour supply, and health and education of children. <br> <br> The following research hypotheses were tested:<ul><li>pregnancy related mortality and morbidity reduce investment in children's human capital;</li><li>breastfeeding improves infant health but may reduce female labour supply and either increase or...

This project developed a test for asymmetric information in the UK private health insurance (PHI) market. In contrast to earlier research that considered either a purely private system or one where private insurance is complementary to public insurance, PHI is substitutive of the public system in the UK. Using a theoretical model of competition among insurers incorporating this characteristic, the project linked the type of selection (adverse or propitious) with the existence of risk-related information...

<p>The <i>Continuous Household Survey</i> (CHS) is one of the largest continuous surveys carried out in Northern Ireland. The survey is designed, conducted and analysed by the Central Survey Unit of the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA). It is based on a sample of the general population resident in private households and has been running since 1983. The Survey is designed to provide a regular source of information on a wide range of social...

<p><i>Background</i>:<br> The <i>Crime Survey for England and Wales</i> (CSEW), previously known as the <i>British Crime Survey</i> (BCS), has been in existence since 1981. The survey traditionally asks a sole randomly selected adult, in a random sample of households, details pertaining to any instances where they, or the household, has been a victim of a crime in the previous 12 months. These are recorded in the victim form data file (VF). A wide range of questions...

The <i>Commercial Victimisation Survey</i> (CVS) provides a source of information on crime and crime-related issues as they affect businesses in England and Wales. It provides additional detail on the extent of crime to be used alongside the other main sources of information on crime. These are the <a href="http://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/series/?sn=200009" title="Crime Survey for England and Wales" target="_blank">Crime Survey for England and Wales</a> (CSEW) (formerly the <i>British Crime Survey</i>), which covers crimes against private individuals and households,...

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Careers data assemble a comprehensive picture of the tenure of CEOs in large UK companies by examining all companies who appeared in the FTSE350 between 1992 and 2006 and examining the careers of the CEOs of those companies in all cases where a career terminated in one of those years. This resulted in a list of well over 1,000 careers (N=1,817).<br> <br> In assembling the CEO Careers Data, the first...