Understanding families lives across the lifecourse: The value of panel studies. Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study.

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• & The evidence suggests that the transition to adulthood underwent significant changes for successive cohorts of young adults in the UK. Even though there has been convergence in the transitions to adulthood trajectories among young adults from different social backgrounds, the transition to adulthood remains strongly socially stratified and influenced by social and economic conditions. (p. 3)
• & These changes included both a general delay and lengthening in the occurrence of major life events that mark the transition to adulthood as well as a de-standardisation in the timing and the order of events (Bilari et al. 2019; Sironi, 2017; Schoon and Lyons-Amos, 2016). (p. 4)
• & One of the most important contributing factors was the widening of further and higher education participation, which resulted in an increase in age at which young adults leave full-time education (Blanden and Macmillan, 2016; Berrigton et al, 2017) (p. 4)
• & At the same time, the youth labour market also changed significantly with an increasing number of young adults making later transitions into the labour market (Kirchner, 2015). (p. 4)
• & leaving fulltime education and labour market entries or exits (Berrington et al., 2017; Dorsett and Lucchino, 2014a). (p. 5)
• & Overall, 18 cohorts of 16 years olds can be constructed based on BHPS and 11 based on Understanding Society. Using the yearly panel data to follow this sample of 16 years olds over successive waves of the surveys and to construct socioeconomic sequences from 16 years of age up to the maximum age at which each cohort can be observed. Table A1 shows the sample size of each cohort and the number of cohort sample members who give full or proxy interviews at each wave. In total among the 28 cohorts, 20 can be observed up to age 25, 17 up to 27 and 15 up 30. (p. 7)
• & To create the histories of events for each of the domain of interest (namely the living with parents, “partnership and cohabitation”, “employment” and “education” domain) data from three main data sources are used. The employment and educational history events are created linking the data to the activity event history dataset created based on a user-written algorithm written by Wright (2020). (p. 8)
• & Table A1. Number of each cohort giving full or proxy interviews at each age (p. 33)