Social Network and Consumption in the UK

Some datasets containing qualitative or quantitative data on social networks are available for academics. They are:

British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) 2000
Families and Children Survey (FCS) 2001
Citizen Audit Questionnaire (CA) 2001
General Household Survey (GHS) 2002-2001
Health Education Monitoring Survey (HEMS) 1998
Health Survey for England (HSE) 2000
Northern Ireland Health and Social Wellbeing Survey (NI-HSWS) 2001
Poverty and Social Exclusion Survey (PSES) 1999
Time Use Survey (TUS) 2000
Youth Lifestyle Survey (YLS) 1998

Questions asked in the above surveys are varied because their purpose are different. Below are questions (some excerpted) that are most closely related to social networks:

We would like to ask how often do you meet people whether at your home or elsewhere. How often do you meet friends or relatives who are not living with you?	BHPS 2000
Apart from the organisations we have talked about, do you belong to an informal network of friends or acquaintances with whom you have contact on a regular basis (for example, pub quiz team, book reading group, pare/toddler group, childcare group)?	CA 2001
Are you and your family able to have friends or relatives for a meal once a month?	FCS 2001
How many close friends live within a 15-20 minute walk or 5-10 minute drive, if any?	GHS 2000/2001
Which of these you have done in the past two weeks? Visited friends/been visited by friens; Spoke to frieds on the phone	HEMS 1998
Which of these you have done in the past fortnight? Went to visit friends; Had friends visit me; Went out with friends; Spoke to friends on the phone.	HSE 2000
Which of these you have done in the past two weeks? Visited friends/been visited by friends; Spoke to friends on the phone.	NI-HSWS 2001
Shuffle card approach to determine which activities people [do/ don't do but do not want to do/ don't do and cannot afford]: Coach or train fares to visit family/friends in other parts of the country four times a year; Have friends or family round for a meal, snack or drink; Visit to friends or family.	PSES 1999
The percentage of time spent recorded in the presence of non-household members can be derived from the time-use diaries.	TUS 2000
How often do you spend time with a group of friends of the same sex? Of both sexes?	YLS 1998

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