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In this section you will find:
An Introduction
to the ECHP
The ECHP is a harmonised cross-national longitudinal survey
focusing on household income and living conditions. It also includes
items on health, education, housing, migration, demographics and
employment characteristics.
Three central features of the ECHP make it a uniquely valuable resource
for researchers.
- The multidimensional character of the topics covered
- The cross-national comparability of the data
- The longitudinal dimension
The survey runs from 1994 to 2001. In the first wave (1994) a sample
of over 60,000 households were interviewed across 12 member states
(Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Ireland,
Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal, the United-Kingdom). Austria
joined the panel in 1995 and Finland joined 1996. From 1997 Sweden
provides cross-sectional data derived from its National Survey on
Living conditions.
Table 1: Years original ECHP format
and converted national data
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Countries
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Full ECHP Data Format
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ECHP Data FormatDerived from National Surveys
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| Belgium, Denmark,France, Greece, Ireland, Italy,
the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal |
1994-2001
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| Austria |
1995-2001
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| Finland |
1996-2001 |
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| Germany |
1994-1996
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1994-2001 (SOEP)
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| Luxembourg |
1994-1996
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1997-2001 (PSELL)
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| United-Kingdom |
1994-1996 |
1994-2001 (BHPS)
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| Sweden |
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1997-2001 (SLCS)
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The User Guide
To view the user guide, you can either open it online or view it
as a pdf document. Opening it online is useful because you can refer
to certain points whilst using this web site. However, we have made
a pdf version available so that you can save it to your computer
and view it at your leisure.
Panel Documentation
Below is a list of the PanDocs. Some are available in pdf format,
for you to save to your computer. All can be linked to from this
page (see the table below). It will also be possible to download
them, where available. The 'Other Documents' button takes you to
a list of other ECHP-relevant documents.
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Document Name
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Description of the content
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The variable list and codebook for the household
and personal register records as well as for the household
and personal questionnaire records for Wave 1 (1994).
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PAN 30
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As above but for wave 2 (1995)
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PAN 65
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As above but for wave 3 (1996)
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PAN 81
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As above but for wave 4 (1997)
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PAN 97
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As above but for wave 5 (1998)
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PAN 112
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As above but for wave 6 (1999)
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PAN 151
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As above but for wave 7 (2000)
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PAN 159
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As above but for wave 8 (2001)
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PAN 165
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Describes the weighting procedure that has
been implemented for calculating individuals and households
weights without describing however how these weights have
to be used
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PAN 166
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Describes the variables (data dictionary,
code book, and differences between countries and waves). The
document is divided between the Household file and the Personal
file, themselves divided into categories such as General Information,
Demographic, Income and so on.
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PAN 167
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Describes the conversion of the variables
from the PDB questions to the UDB variable format for the
household file, personal file as well as link fixed variables
and link wave specific variables (household and personal)
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PAN 168
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Presents the ECHP history as well as describing
the dataset (the various files), the contractual arrangements
and the related documents (Doc PAN 164, PAN 165 etc…)
and the contacts for the National Data Collection Units and
Eurostat
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