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Explore new content across ‘Our Changing Society’

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Image is full of icons of people's heads facing in different directions and overlapping. The faces on the left are all greyscale and change into colourful faces on the right.Our new set of updates to CLOSER’s ‘Our Changing Society’ resource provides more context to the lives of longitudinal population study participants, with the latest data and information across a range of topics.

Spanning topics including income inequality, fertility, life expectancy and unemployment, Our Changing Society helps researchers, teachers, students, and policymakers understand how political, social and economic changes may have impacted people’s lives.  

Why not explore this free resource of interactive graphs, downloadable datasets and relevant legislation for yourself? 

Latest updates

We have added updated information for 21 charts, covering the following topics:

  • Ageing
  • Attitudes & beliefs
  • Employment & pensions
  • Family & social networks
  • Health
  • Housing and environment
  • Inequality
  • Social mobility

Links to the individual charts can be found in ‘Further resources’ below.

Example interactive chart in Our Changing Society

Further information

Updated charts: