Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introducing household panels -- Household panel studies: an overview -- Panel surveys: adding the fourth dimension -- Using panel studies to understand household behaviour and well-being -- Panel data quality -- Panel attrition -- Weighting in household panel surveys -- Dealing with measurement error in panel analysis -- Tangled webs of family relationships: untangling them with survey data -- Dissemination issues for panel studies: metadata and documentation -- Panel data analyses -- Dynamics of poverty and determinants of poverty transitions: results from the Dutch socioeconomic panel -- Low-income dynamics in 1990s Britain -- A new approach to poverty dynamics -- Using panel data to analyse household and family dynamics -- Using panel surveys to study migration and residential mobility -- Bibliography -- Index.