Welcome to Life Patterns
The Life Patterns research program is a longitudinal mixed-method study of two cohorts of young Australians making their post secondary school transitions. The first stage of the project commenced in 1991, following a cohort of young people who had just completed their secondary education. The project has now been following this group of Australians for over sixteen years. During late 2005 and 2006 a new cohort of Australian students in their final two years of high school was recruited to the Life Patterns project both to follow this new cohort (who were born around 1989) in their own right, and also to compare the experiences of this second cohort with those of the first cohort (born around 1973) to explore how transitions have changed over the intervening 16 years.
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Download and read the latest Research Report from the Life Patterns Program |
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Gen X & inequality in the labour market Recent data from the Life-Patterns longitudinal research program reveals that despite their high education levels, women of 'generation X' (now in their mid-thirties), are the most likely of their generation to go part-time or drop out of the labour force. |
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Introducing a new book!Life Patterns Chief Investigaors Lesley Andres and Johanna Wyn are pleased to announce the publication of their new book The Making of a Generation: Children of the 1970s in Adulthood. Published by Toronto University Press, the book draws on fifteen years of research with the first cohort of the Life Patterns study alongside research from a similar cohort of young people in Canada. |