The British Population Survey (BPS) is a running survey with monthly face-to-face historical data from 2008 to 2015. It aims to capture the socio-economic and consumer characteristics of the population of Great Britain. More information can be found at http://www.thebps.co.uk/. Data includes results from over 80,000 individual surveys annually, covering demographics, economics, shopping preferences, durables, media, and internet use.

This is the secure version of the dataset at the postcode scale, and an aggregated version of the data at the LSOA scale is also available on the website.

Scale: Unit Postcode.
Variables:

• Family: Gender, Age Group, Numeric age, Lifestage, Ethnic Origin, Marital Status, Parent of children, Parental Status, Child Maintenance, Number in household, Presence of children in household, No. of children in household, Age of children in household
• Geography: Country, Standard Region 4, Standard Region 11, Urban/Rural, Postcode Area, Unit Postcode.
• Economics: Social Grade, Qualification level, Working status of respondent, household income, chief income earner (CIE), working status of CIE, Home tenure, main shopper, main supermarket, debit card/s, credit card/s.
• Media: daily newspaper, Sunday newspaper, ITV station most watched.
• Durables: no. of cars in household, TV, Satellite TV, Cable TV, Freeview, Freesat, Landline telephone, simple mobile phone, web mobile phone, video, DVD recorder, DVD player, personal computer, laptop PC, tablet PC, games console, MP3, DAB radio, DIG camera (ex phone).
• Internet access: internet access – frequency, internet access – method, cable broadband, ADSL broadband, other broadband, non broadband, internet access – history.
• Internet use: emails, info-requests, info-products, purchases – not groceries, grocery shopping, bank a/c & finances, job search, play games online, online gaming for money, download music, download movies, download/stream TV, online dating, VOIP, social networks/blogs, other.
• Date: Year and month.
• Survey: ID, Weight.

 
Selected metadata on variables and geographic coverage are included.