Continuous Household Survey - Major studies
General - Education
General - Employment and labour
General - Health
Health services and medical care - Health
Housing
Social indicators and quality of life - Society and culture
Use and provision of specific social services - Social welfare policy and systems
The Continuous Household Survey (CHS) began in 1983, and samples approximately one per cent of households in Northern Ireland each year. It is carried out by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA). The survey aims to provide government departments with continuing information about population, housing, employment, education and health. As all the topics are covered in one survey, it is possible to examine not only each topic separately but also the interactions between them (e.g. the effects of poor housing conditions upon health).
The CHS is modelled on, and is similar in form and content to, the General Lifestyle Survey (formerly the General Household Survey) (held at the UK Data Archive under GN 33403), which is carried out in Britain by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Further information about the series, including methodology, may be found on the NISRA Central Survey Unit (CSU) Continuous Household Survey web pages.
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Main Topics:
The main topics covered in the 2008-2009 survey included demographic, personal, family and household information, religion, mobile phone/internet access, education, child and adult health (including dental health and accidents), smoking, drinking, employment, job applications, accidents at work, culture, arts and leisure activities, voluntary work, and income and benefits. There were also questions asked at a household level on migration, tenure, heating, consumer durables, and recycling. Some of the questions are based on those asked in the GHS.
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Publications
Department of Finance and Personnel Policy Planning and Research Unit (1984) Preliminary results for 1983, PPRU Monitor No. 1/84, May.
Department of Finance and Personnel Policy Planning and Research Unit (1985) Preliminary results for 1984, PPRU Monitor No. 1/85, June.
Department of Finance and Personnel Policy Planning and Research Unit (1985) Religion 1983-84, PPRU Monitor No. 2/85, June.
Department of Finance and Personnel Policy Planning and Research Unit (1986) Preliminary results for 1985, PPRU Monitor No. 1/86, July.
Department of Finance and Personnel Policy Planning and Research Unit (1988) Preliminary results for 1986, PPRU Monitor No. 1/88, April.
Department of Finance and Personnel Policy Planning and Research Unit (1988) Heating and fuel 1983-1985, PPRU Monitor No. 2/88, June.
Policy Planning and Research Unit SSD (1988) The Irish language in Northern Ireland 1987: Preliminary report of a survey of knowledge, interest and ability, PPRU Occasional Paper 17, August.
Department of Finance and Personnel Policy Planning and Research Unit (1988) Preliminary results for 1987, PPRU Monitor No. 4/88, December.
Department of Finance and Personnel Policy Planning and Research Unit (1989) Religion 1985-87, PPRU Monitor No. 1/89, April.
Department of Finance and Personnel Policy Planning and Research Unit (1989) Preliminary results for 1988, PPRU Monitor No. 3/89, September.
Department of Finance and Personnel Policy Planning and Research Unit (1991) Preliminary results for 1989/90, PPRU Monitor No. 2/91, October.
Department of Finance and Personnel Policy Planning and Research Unit (1992) Preliminary results CHS 90/91, PPRU Monitor No. 1/92, July.
Department of Finance and Personnel Policy Planning and Research Unit (1993) Religion 1988-1990/91, PPRU Monitor No. 1/93, February.
NISRA (2004) Continuous Household Survey bulletin 2003/04, Belfast: NISRA.
NISRA (2005) Continuous Household Survey bulletin 2004/05, Belfast: NISRA.
Reports based on the CHS from 2003-2004 onwards are available from the NISRA Central Survey Unit Publications web page.
