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EDC Serial Number EDC0000023
Title English Housing Survey (EHS)
Data Location https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/series/series?id=200010
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Description The English Housing Survey (EHS) began in 2008 as a continuous national survey collecting information about people's housing circumstances and the condition and energy efficiency of housing in England. The EHS brought together two previous survey series - the English House Condition Survey (EHCS) and the Survey of English Housing (SEH) - into a single fieldwork operation. The EHS covers all housing tenures and provides valuable information and evidence to inform the development and monitoring of government housing policies.
DOI (none given)
Sector Commercial
Coverage England
Start: 01/01/2008
End: 31/12/2049
Ongoing data collection
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Data Type Survey
Parameter Names Key data items from IHS module: Demographics; Accommodation & tenure; Nationality & ethnicity; Sexual identity; Religion; Health; Disability; Smoking behaviour; Employment details; Education. EHS module: Housing history; Type of dwelling; Attitudes to home and neighbourhood; Detailed tenure; Work done to the home (rotating); Detailed questions on income and benefits; Second homes; Fires (rotating); Damp; Rent and Mortgages including arrears; Housing history; Aspirations. Physical survey also assesses cavity wall insulation, loft insulation (presence & thickness), double glazing (and proportion double-glazed), and presence of a hot water storage cylinder and presence, type & depth of insulation jacket.
Units 17 x households
Number of Records 25,000
IEA Category Demographics
Residential and commercial
Creator of the Data Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG)
Data made available by DCLG / UK Data Archive
Format text/csv
Language English
Project National Housing Surveys National surveys of housing circumstances, condition, and energy efficiency
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Other Information The survey has a complex multi-stage methodology consisting of 3 main elements: an initial interview survey of around 17,000 households with a follow-up physical inspection and a desk-based market valuation of a sub-sample of 8,000 of these dwellings, including vacant dwellings. The interview survey sample forms part of the Integrated Household Survey (IHS), and the core questions from the IHS form part of the EHS questionnaire.