The Age 23 Survey is now complete. Here you’ll find the answers to some of the questions you may have had about this survey.
Some of you took part in our online surveys during the COVID-19 pandemic (thank you so much!), but the Age 23 Survey was our first big catch up with you since you entered adulthood.
The early twenties are a time when many people start taking key life decisions around things like jobs, housing, and relationships.
You reached this important stage of your lives in the wake of the pandemic, in the midst of a cost of living crisis and against the backdrop of other world-changing events. This has undoubtedly presented unique challenges for your generation. We really need to hear how you’re getting on in the face of this and we will be using the results to tell these important stories.
The Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) at the UCL Social Research Institute, a department of University College London (UCL) ran the study. CLS is the UK’s leading research centre for birth cohort studies and also runs other national studies of people born in 1958, 1970 and 1990.
An independent research organisation called Ipsos worked with us on this survey. Ipsos has a team of trained interviewers and also carried out the interviews for the Age 11, 14 and 17 Surveys. Ipsos must follow the rules of the Market Research Society Code of Conduct.
The Age 23 Survey was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and a range of UK government departments.
The information you gave us will be used for research purposes only. Names and addresses will be kept separate from all of the other information collected and will never revealed without your permission. This means that responses to our questions can never be identified. See our privacy pages for more information childnc.net/privacy.
The survey covered all different aspects of your life, including your family and relationships, housing, employment and income, education, health and wellbeing, identity and opinions.
We also gave you an opportunity to play two interactive games which will help us understand how you think.
We also asked your permission to add some information that government departments hold about you to your survey answers. We didn’t ask for this if you already gave your permission at the last CNC survey. This will give us an even fuller picture of your lives and make the study even more valuable for research.
If you had any children, there were some questions about how they’re doing, and the kinds of things you do together. We also asked your permission to add some information about them from records held by government departments.
If you lived with a partner, we asked you a few questions about them, and we also asked your permission to ask them some questions about themselves directly.
Some of CNC’s most important findings have been about child development and parenthood so learning about your own children will help us look at the next generation.
Living with a partner can have a big impact on several areas of your lives, including finances, share of domestic responsibilities and wellbeing. By capturing some information about your live-in partner, we are learning about the different types of relationships people your age are in, and the ways in which they shape your life.
