Datasets used as harmonised in analysis :
| Introduction | Harmonised Dataset |
Dataset description: Long-run changes in the significance of social stratification in Britain
The table below describes components of the harmonised dataset which pools related data from a number of surveys collected over the last 40 years in Britain. Updates ongoing.
Datasets
used as harmonised in analysis :
| Study (Data Archive #) | Years | Cases | Comment | |
| 0 | Cambridge Family History Study (NA) | 1700-1964 | 54,131 | Not a random sample, but traces ancestors backward via family records |
| 1 | Political Change in GB (1090, 1091,1092) | 1963-66 | 2,073 | |
| 2 | Oxford Mobility Study (1097, 1358) | 1972-4 | 10,309 | |
| 3 | Occupatinal Status and Mobility in Ireland (240, 1201) | 1973 | ||
| 4 | Social Status in Great Britain (1369) | 1974 | 5,066 | Regionally clustered sample |
| 5 | 1974 British Election Study (359) | 1974 (Feb) | 2,462 | |
| 6 | 1974 British Election Study (666) | 1974 (Oct) | 2,365 | |
| 7 | Scottish Mobility Study (981) | 1974-5 | 8,954 | |
| 8 | 1979 British Election Study (1533) | 1979 | 1,893 | |
| 9 | 1983 British Election Study (2005) | 1983 | 3,955 | |
| 10 | Social Class in Modern Britain (2718) | 1984 | 1,315 | |
| 11 | 1985 General Household Survey (2349) | 1985 | 15,966 | |
| 12 | 1986 General Household Survey (2569) | 1986 | ||
| 13 | Social Change and Economic Life (2798) | 1986/7 | 6,110 | Regionally clustered sample |
| 14 | 1987 British Election Study (2568) | 1987 | 3,826 | |
| 15 | British Household Panel Study (4505) | 1991-> | 12,000 | Annual panel survey, approx 12k unique individuals in work at least once during of survey. Nationally representative sample, but with Welsh, Scottish and N Irish boosts. Many more points of contact with occupations, eg approx 100k different lifetime occupations |
| 16 | 1992 British Election Study (2981) | 1992 | 3,534 | |
| 17 | Nothern Ireland Social Mobility Study (3928) | 1996 | 3,023 | |
| 18 | 1997 British Election Study (3887) | 1997 | 3,615 | |
| 19 | 2001 British Election Study (4260) | 2001 | ||