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 Cohort Study as well as the SHP LIVES Vaud in collaboration with NCCR LIVES and the canton of Vaud.
Open access publication with SHP-data: Social Dynamics in Swiss Society
Edited by Robin Tillmann, Marieke Voorpostel, and Peter Farago, this book uses longitudinal data from the Swiss Household Panel to zoom in on continuity and change in the life course. This open access book describes how the lives of the Swiss population have changed in terms of health, family circumstances, work, political participation, and migration over the last sixteen years. What are the different trajectories in terms of mobility, health, wealth, and family constellations? What are the drivers behind all these changes over time and in the life course? And what are the implications for inequality in society and for social policy?
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News
 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 […] |  Beta version of wave 20 available on requestThe beta version of the 20th wave of the SHP data is now available on request. If you would like to get access to this dataset, please contact us via […] |
 Does low-wage work lead to political alienation?Based on data from the Swiss Household Panel, Dominik Schraff’s contribution provides evidence that persistent low-wage work may lead to withdrawal from democratic politics. He argues that dropping into low-wage […] |  How do (nonstandard) occupational trajectories affect health ?Francesco Giudici and Davide Morselli have analyzed data from the life history calendar of the Swiss Household Panel to observe occupational trajectories across the lifespan. The results show that discontinuous […] |
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