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| Project title |
Solo
living across the adult lifecourse
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in solo living, living in a one-person household. |
| Funding details |
Funded by the ESRC |
| Research
team |
Adam Smith, Lynn
Jamieson, Fran Wasoff |
| Dates |
Jan 2004 - Jan 2005 |
| Type of project |
Completed research
project |
| Keywords |
Singleness / solo living |
| Project
description |
The growth in solo living across
the life course is a major change in the way we live across
Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand with trends
expected to continue and to present major challenges to social
life and welfare regimes, in relation to social care, social
security, housing and planning, pensions, health and labour
market policies.
One person households include people who have never partnered,
were formerly partnered, who have partners living in another
household, who are childless and who are parents whose children
are not co-resident.
CRFR were awarded a grant to study this issue based on looking
at data already collected in British and Scottish long term
surveys, for example the Scottish Household Survey. The study
used this data to explore who in the 30-74 age group are living
alone, whether age, gender or ethnicity affect the likelihood
of people living alone, and the social and economic circumstances
which underlie these trends. The study also considers the history
of living alone, and how it varies at different stages in people’s
lives and traces movements in and out of solo living and how
these are related to patterns of social support and family and
personal life. It complements other recent research which has
drawn on the same survey data.
Some of the key findings from the study are reported in CRFR
Research Briefing 20: solo living across the adult lifecourse.
This research was also the basis for a chapter 'Solo living,
individual and family boundaries: findings from secondary analysis'
in the book edited by Linda McKie and Sarah Cunningham-Burley,
(in press, to appear 2005), Families and Society: Boundaries
and Relationships, Bristol: The Policy Press. |
Publications/
dissemination |
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| Contact |
Fran
Wasoff |
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