Kneale, Dylan, Lupton, Ruth, Obolenskaya, Polina 
ORCID: 0000-0002-2571-2931 and Wiggins, Richard D.
(2010)
A cross-cohort description of young people's housing experience in Britain over 30 years: an application of sequence analysis.
DoQSS working papers (10-17).
Department of Qualitative Social Science, Institute of Education, London, UK.
Abstract
Objective: To compare patterns of leaving the parental home and early adult housing experiences of two British cohorts. Data: Two birth cohorts: the 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS) and the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70). Methods: Sequence Analysis supported by Event History Analysis. Key Findings: Despite only 12 years separating both cohorts, the younger 1970 cohort exhibited very different patterns of housing including a slower progression out of the parental home and into stable tenure, and an increased reliance on privately rented housing. Returns to the parental home occurred across the twenties and into the thirties in both cohorts, although occurred more frequently and were more concentrated among certain groups in the 1970 cohort compared to the 1958 cohort. Although fewer cohort members in the 1970 cohort experienced social housing, and did so at a later age, social housing was also associated with greater tenure immobility in this younger cohort. Conclusions: The housing experiences of the younger cohort became associated with more unstable tenure (privately rented housing) for the majority. Leaving the parental home was observed to be a process, as opposed to a one-off event, and several returns to the parental home were documented, more so for the 1970 cohort. These findings are not unrelated, and in the current environment of rising house prices, collapses in the (youth) labour market and rising costs of higher education, are likely to increase in prevalence across subsequent cohorts.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://repec.ioe.ac.uk/REPEc/pdf/qsswp1017.pdf |
| Additional Information: | © 2010 The Authors |
| Divisions: | Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform |
| JEL classification: | J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J1 - Demographic Economics > J19 - Other R - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics > R2 - Household Analysis > R20 - General R - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics > R2 - Household Analysis > R21 - Housing Demand |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Feb 2011 15:08 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2023 23:20 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/32373 |
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