Researching Social and Economic Change: The Uses of Household Panel Studies

In this user friendly introduction, European and American experts in the field join forces to explain what panel studies can achieve and to illustrate some of the potential pitfalls in the construction and analysis of panel data. Household panel studies provide one of the most significant national and international resources for analysing social and economic change. This is an essential and accessible introduction for those contemplating the use of panel studies for the first time and will be an invaluable resource for both practicing researchers and the commissioners of research.

Karl Ashworth is currently a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Social Policy, Loughborough University Michael Brick is a Senior Statistician and Vice President of Westat Inc., and is a Research Associate Professor in the Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland Nicholas Buck is Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) [formerly Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Research Centre on Micro-social Change], University of Essex Constance F. Citro is on the staff of the US Committee on National Statistics Suzanne Davies Withers (PhD, UCLA) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Georgia Greg Duncan is Professor of Education and Social Policy and a Faculty Associate in the Center for Urban Affairs at Northwestern University John Ermisch is a Professor in the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex and a Fellow of the British Academy Martha S. Hill is a Researcher at the Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan and also an Associate Research Scientist Sarah Jarvis was formerly Senior Research Officer in Economics, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex Stephen P. Jenkins is Professor of Economics, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex Graham Kalton is a Senior Statistician and Senior Vice President of Westat Inc. Ruud J. A. Muffels obtained his Master's Degree in 1979 in macroeconomics. From 1993 onwards, he has been part-time Professor of the Socioeconomics of Ageing. Since 1995, he has also been a Research Professor at WORC, the Work and Organisation Research Centre at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of Tilburg University David Rose is Professor of Sociology in the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex Marita A. Servais is a Researcher at the Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan Chris Skinner is Professor of Social Statistics at the University of Southampton Peter Solenberger is a Researcher at the Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan Marcia Freed Taylor is Co-ordinator of the European Centre for Analysis in the Social Sciences (ECASS), University of Essex Robert Walker is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Nottingham Jeroen W. Winkels, works at Statistics Netherlands in the Department of Sociocultural Household Surveys