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
- Our Changing Society
- Blog: Our Changing Society – charting political, social and economic change over nine decades
Updated charts:
- 90/10 income inequality ratio
- Age-specific fertility rates
- Claimant count rate by sex
- Current cigarette and e-cigarette smokers by sex
- Death rates from cardiovascular disease (CVD)
- Dwelling stock by tenure
- Estimated annual population
- Gini coefficient income inequality measure
- Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
- Household car availability
- Infant mortality
- Inflation and interest rate
- Life expectancy at birth
- Live births outside marriage
- Marriage
- Overweight and obesity
- Proportion of cigarette smokers by sex
- Share of the vote by party in UK General Elections
- Sickness absence
- Total fertility rate
- Turnout at UK General Elections