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
Anniversary publications for 20 years of SHP
News
 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 […] |
 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 […] |
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