This contextual database provides researchers with detailed information about the historical and political backdrop to cohort members’ lives.
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90/10 income inequality ratio
Age specific fertility rates
Alcohol consumption per capita
Average age of withdrawal from the labour market
Births and deaths
Child poverty rates before housing costs (BHC)
Claimant count rate by sex
Current cigarette and e-cigarette smokers by sex
Death rates from cardiovascular disease (CVD)
Divorce
Dwelling stock by tenure
Enrolment and post-compulsory staying on rates
Estimated annual population
Gender pay gaps in average (mean) hourly earnings
Gini coefficient income inequality measure
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Household car availability
Households with internet access
Incidence of breastfeeding
Infant mortality
Life expectancy at 65
Life expectancy at birth
Live births outside marriage
Marriage
Prison population by sex
Proportion of cigarette smokers by sex
Proportion of maintained grammar school pupils
Proportion of population aged 75 and over
Public sector workforce as percentage of total employment
Pupil-teacher ratio in primary education
Share of the vote by party in UK General Elections
Spending as a percentage of national income
Students obtaining university degrees
Television ownership in private domestic households
Total fertility rate
Turnout at UK General Elections
Unemployment rate by sex
