The SHP constitutes a unique longitudinal database for Switzerland and is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The survey covers a broad range of topics and approaches in the social sciences. Data collection started in 1999 with a sample of 5’074 households containing 12’931 household members. In 2004 a second sample of 2’538 households with a total of 6’569 household members was added; and since 2013 the SHP contains a third sample of 4’093 households with 9’945 individuals. Response rates have remained high in all three samples.
The data from the Swiss Household Panel is freely accessible to the scientific community on FORSbase (see data).
Since 2013, the SHP team also conducts the LIVES FORS Cohort Survey as well as the SHP LIVES Vaud in collaboration with NCCR LIVES and the canton of Vaud.
Open access publication with SHP-data
Anniversary publications for 20 years of SHP
News
 New SHP data availableWave 20 and the data of the pilot study for the forthcoming refreshment sample of the SHP are now available on FORSbase! |  Why do people choose a public service career?In a recently published article based on data from the Swiss Household Panel, Caroline Fischer and Carina Schott try to understand why people enter and stay in public service careers. […] |
 Vulnerable people, the dot-com crisis and the Great RecessionBased on the Swiss Household Panel, Jehane Simona-Moussa and Laura Ravazzini explored how the dot-com crisis and the Great Recession affected vulnerable people in Switzerland. |  Routine Workers in an Increasingly Automated World of WorkIn a study based on SHP data, Thomas Kurer from Harvard University explores the consequences of technological change on routine workers in Switzerland. Three major results come out of this […] |
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