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The English Housing Survey 2012-2013 Household Data Teaching Dataset is based on the English Housing Survey, 2012-2013: Household Data (held under SN 7512) and constitutes real data which are used by the Department for Communities and Local Government and are behind many headlines. The teaching dataset is a subset which has been subjected to certain simplifications and additions for the purpose of learning and teaching. The main differences are:the number of variables has been reducedweighting has been simplifieda reduced codebook is providedFurther information is available in the study documentation which includes a dataset user guide. Information about other teaching resources and datasets can be found on the Teaching resources webpage.

Main Topics:

The main topics covered are:housing characteristicshousehold characteristicssatisfaction with the home and local area

Multi-stage stratified random sample

Face-to-face interview

Compilation or synthesis of existing material

The EHS is collected by a face-to-face interview but the teaching dataset has been created by simplifying and altering the original data.