The Swiss Household Panel (SHP)

Tillmann, Robin; Voorpostel, Marieke; Antal, Erika; Dasoki, Nora; Klaas, Hannah S.; Kuhn, Ursina; Lebert, Florence; Monsch, Gian-Andrea; Ryser, Valérie-Anne

doi:10.1515/jbnst-2021-0039

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“…We use data from the Swiss Household Panel (SHP), an annual panel survey based on a probability-based sample of the Swiss population living in private households. The survey started in 1999 and added refreshment samples in 2004, 2013, and 2020 (Tillmann et al, 2022). All household members as of 14 years old are invited to participate.…”

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Patterns of (de)politicization in times of crisis: Swiss residents' political engagement, 1999–2020

2022

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We explore period, cohort and age effects on political engagement of Swiss residents from 1999 to 2020. A particular focus lies on the impact of the successive crises democratic societies have faced in recent years, such as the economic and debt crisis, refugee crisis, climate change, terrorist attacks or COVID-19 pandemic. We review the literature on the potential of such large-scale external events for both politicization and depoliticization. We then draw several hypotheses, which we test empirically. We consider several dimensions of political engagement (interest in politics, party identification, participation in popular votes, political discussions, and political trust), and seek to explain their variation over time, using data from the Swiss Household Panel. Our results suggest that “troubled times” have little effect on political engagement overall, but that crises stimulate political discussions and trust in government in the short term. We further find increasing levels of political trust in the longer run, which might reflect a cumulative effect of the various crises. In contrast, we find steadily declining levels of traditional forms of political engagement, namely party identification and participation in popular votes, as well as interest in politics. For cohorts, we find a U-shaped association between generations and political engagement. An exception to this pattern is political trust, where we observe a small but steady increase from older to newer generations. For age, we observed a monotonic increase of political engagement with age for all indicators. Again, trust in government somewhat deviates from other forms of political engagement, as it first decreases in the younger age groups and then increases from the age of 40 onwards. In conclusion, we discuss some implications of these complex patterns of results for the future of democratic systems.

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Patterns of (de)politicization in times of crisis: Swiss residents' political engagement, 1999–2020

2022

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“…The vast majority of recent survey studies on compliance with public health policies rely on ad hoc (online) surveys conducted during the ongoing pandemic. Notable large-scale and multi-purpose exceptions are the Swiss Household Panel [ 47 ], UK Household Longitudinal Study [ 48 ] and the Understanding America Study [ 49 ], which can be used to analyze changes over the pandemic based on at least one pre-pandemic observation for the same individual (see [ 50 ] for a systematic review). This also applies to some surveys with more targeted topics, such as the Swedish Pregnancy Panel [ 51 ].…”

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Satisfaction with pandemic management and compliance with public health measures: Evidence from a German household survey on the COVID-19 crisis

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We study how satisfaction with government efforts to respond to the COVID-19 crisis affects compliance with pandemic mitigation measures. Using a novel longitudinal household survey for Germany, we overcome the identification and endogeneity challenges involved in estimating individual compliance by using an instrumental variable approach that exploits exogenous variation in two indicators measured before the crisis: political party preferences and the mode of information measured by the frequency of using social media and reading newspapers. We find that a one unit increase in subjective satisfaction (on the 0-10 scale) improves protective behavior by 2-4 percentage points. Satisfaction with the government’s COVID-19 management is lower among individuals with right-wing partisan preferences and among individuals who use only social media as an information source. Overall, our results indicate that the effectiveness of uniform policy measures in various domains, such as the health system, social security or taxation, especially during pandemic crises, cannot be fully evaluated without taking individual preferences for collective action into account.

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“…The current analysis is based on a representative population sample of the SHP, a unique longitudinal survey in the social sciences interviewing all household members of a random sample of private households in Switzerland since 1999 (swisspanel.ch; Tillmann et al, 2016 ). The principal aim of this annual household panel survey is to observe social change, in particular the dynamics of changing living conditions in the resident population of Switzerland ( Tillmann et al, 2021 ). The SHP survey is a general survey that covers a wide range of areas in the social sciences—for each individual participant, the SHP provides information on socio-demographic characteristics, household and family composition, health and quality of life, experience of major life events, employment status and income, social networks and integration, political orientation and values, degree of subjective well-being, and self-perception (e.g., self-esteem, personality and emotionality).…”

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Appraisal Bias and Emotion Dispositions Are Risk Factors for Depression and Generalized Anxiety: Empirical Evidence

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Appraisal theory of emotion predicts that appraisal biases may generate stable emotion dispositions, which can ultimately lead to affective disorders. One example is the habitual underestimation of one’s potential to cope with adverse events, which favors frequent experiences of sadness and worry and therefore increases the risk for development of depression and generalized anxiety disorders. To examine the relationships between these variables as potential risk factors, in Study 1, we used appraisal and emotion questions in the Swiss Household Panel (SHP), a nationwide representative sample, and analyzed data for N = 4,859 participants in one annual survey wave (Wave 14, SHP 2012) via theory-based hierarchical regressions. Path analysis of the nomological network linking frequent experiences of depression and anxiety to the emotion dispositions of sadness and worry, and measures of perceived coping potential (appraisal bias) supports the theoretical predictions and further identifies the effects of important background variables such as personality, motivation, and life events. Discriminant analysis shows that these predictors allow correct classification of close to 70% of the participants with elevated risk. In Study 2, we used established validated instruments to assess the risk for depression and anxiety disorders, as well as a recently validated scenario method to assess appraisal bias and emotion disposition in a survey with N = 152 students. The results correspond to the theoretical predictions and largely confirm the findings with the household survey. The results of both studies demonstrate the utility of using current emotion theory to provide new vistas for research on risk factors for affective disorders and to inform the development of appropriate interventions to reduce the level of risk.

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The Swiss Household Panel (SHP)

Cited by 25 publications

References 21 publications

Patterns of (de)politicization in times of crisis: Swiss residents' political engagement, 1999–2020

Patterns of (de)politicization in times of crisis: Swiss residents' political engagement, 1999–2020

Satisfaction with pandemic management and compliance with public health measures: Evidence from a German household survey on the COVID-19 crisis

Appraisal Bias and Emotion Dispositions Are Risk Factors for Depression and Generalized Anxiety: Empirical Evidence

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