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Integrated household survey April 2010-March 2011

Summary: Experimental statistics - Report

Summary about the IHS
The Integrated Household Survey (IHS) is the largest social survey ever produced by the Office for National Statistics. The survey is comprised of a core suite of questions from five current ONS household surveys and contains information from over 420,000 individual respondents - the biggest pool of UK social data after the census.
The survey covers a number of themes including health, education, migration, housing and employment. Information and statistics about these themes can be found on the ONS website. In April 2011 the ONS started to measure ‘subjective well-being’ i.e. asking individuals to provide their own assessment of their own well-being. Four questions were added to the IHS from the start of April 2011, with the first annual experimental dataset available from July 2012.
All IHS statistics are designated as experimental. Experimental statistics are new official statistics undergoing evaluation. They are published in order to involve customers and stakeholders in their
development and as a means to build in quality at an early stage.

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