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Professor Paul Thompson's study Families, Social Mobility and Ageing, an Intergenerational Approach, 1900-1988, also known as 100 Families, was carried out between 1985 and 1988. Its purpose was to gather ethnographic and dynamic information illustrative of family, ageing and social mobility. A sample of approximately 100 families was taken clustered in 200 wards in England, Wales and Scotland. The sample was based on a sub-sample of interviewees from the ESRC stagflation project and the initial focus was middle generation informants, aged 30-55, married with children. Interviews typically cover family background and occupation as well as a full life story covering childhood, working life, marriage and childrearing.
Explore 100 Families dataA full catalogue record is available from the Data Catalogue under SN 4938, and includes an abstract, ordering details, re-use and citation information, user guides, and publications relating to the study.
