Families and Children Study

One hour interviews with a main respondent and 20 minute partner interview. Covers: child development and child rearing; family life and marriage; employment and labour; income, property and investment; and other topics.

Formerly known as the 'Survey of Low Income Families (SOLIF) and designed to evaluate government's employment policy, specifically incentives designed to help people into work, improve living standards, improve child outcomes. Also used to compare living standards and outcomes for children across the income distribution and compare changes since 1999.

Time

2001 - 2011 (Annual)

Dataset Quality

Way in which the survey was undertaken varied according to each wave.

Numeric data at an individual (micro) level.

Dataset Access and Use

freely available to download from the UK Data Access Service.

Appears favourable towards research use

Geography

Coverage: GB

Units: Regional

Resources