DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-9057-1
title: English Housing Survey, 2020-2021: Household Data
title: English Housing Survey, 2008-
title: EHS

description: &lt;p&gt;The &lt;i&gt;English Housing Survey&lt;/i&gt; (EHS) is a continuous national survey commissioned by the Ministry of Housing, Community and Local Government (MHCLG) that collects information about people's housing circumstances and the condition and energy efficiency of housing in England. The EHS brings together two previous survey series into a single fieldwork operation: the &lt;i&gt;English House Condition Survey&lt;/i&gt; (EHCS) (available from the UK Data Archive under GN 33158) and the &lt;i&gt;Survey of English Housing&lt;/i&gt; (SEH) (available under GN 33277). The EHS covers all housing tenures. The information obtained through the survey provides an accurate picture of people living in the dwelling, and their views on housing and their neighbourhoods. The survey is also used to inform the development and monitoring of the Ministry's housing policies. Results from the survey are also used by a wide range of other users including other government departments, local authorities, housing associations, landlords, academics, construction industry professionals, consultants, and the general public.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
The EHS has a complex multi-stage methodology consisting of two main elements; an initial interview survey of around 12,000 households and a follow-up physical inspection. Some further elements are also periodically included in or derived from the EHS: for 2008 and 2009, a desk-based market valuation was conducted of a sub-sample of 8,000 dwellings (including vacant ones), but this was not carried out from 2010 onwards. A periodic follow-up survey of private landlords and agents (the &lt;i&gt;Private Landlords Survey&lt;/i&gt; (PLS)) is conducted using information from the EHS interview survey. Fuel Poverty datasets are also available from 2003, created by the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC).&lt;br&gt;
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The EHS interview survey sample formed part of the Integrated Household Survey (IHS) (available from the Archive under GN 33420) from April 2008 to April 2011. During this period the core questions from the IHS formed part of the EHS questionnaire.&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;Safeguarded and Special Licence Versions:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;
From 2014 data onwards, the Safeguarded versions (previously known as End User Licence (EUL)) of the EHS will only include derived variables. In addition the number of variables on the new EUL datasets has been reduced and disclosure control increased on certain remaining variables. New Special Licence versions of the EHS will be deposited later in the year, which will be of a similar nature to previous EHS EUL datasets and will include derived and raw datasets.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
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Further information about the EHS and the latest news, reports and tables can be found on the GOV.UK &lt;a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/english-housing-survey" title="English Housing Survey (EHS)" target="_blank"&gt;English Housing Survey &lt;/a&gt; web pages.&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;SN 9057 - &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;English Housing Survey, 2020-2021: Household Data&lt;/span&gt; contains data from the interview survey only.  The data from the physical survey are available under SN 9058 - &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;English Housing Survey, 2020: Housing Stock Data.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;Due to changes to the methodology in response to the Covid-19
pandemic, both the achieved full interview (household) and dwelling (stock) samples in 2020-21 were
smaller than in a normal year, at 7,474 households and 5,228 dwellings
respectively. Vacant dwellings were not surveyed in 2020-21 because social
distancing restrictions prevented interviewers from visiting the sampled
addresses to identify them. Further details about the key changes made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic are included in the Technical
Report available as part of the study documentation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;