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- Housing research and statistics
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- Survey of English Housing (SEH)
- Introduction and background to the Survey of English Housing (SEH)
Introduction and background to the Survey of English Housing (SEH)
The Survey of English Housing (SEH) was a continuous Communities and Local Government survey which ran from April 1993 until March 2008. It collected a wide range of information on households, their housing and their attitudes to housing and related issues through face-to-face interviews with about 20,000 householders each year. The survey reporting is based on the financial year (ie, each survey year ran from the beginning of April to the end of the following March).
Before the SEH, the former Department of the Environment collected some information in the Housing Trailers to the Labour Force Survey, in 1981, 1984, 1988 and 1991. When the design of the Labour Force Survey changed in 1992 it was no longer possible to run housing trailers, so the Survey of English Housing was created as a free-standing survey.
From April 1999 the SEH was carried out by the National Centre for Social Research (formerly Social and Community Planning Research), a leading social research institute. From its launch in April 1993 until March 1999, the survey was carried out by the Social Survey Division of the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
