roachboy

the sample is 2000 families which would make of it a pretty extensive study. what makes the dataset important is that this cohort was tracked over 23 years. so this is a dense and complicated dataset.

the question of representativeness will have to wait for the main study to be resolved if its a serious objection. personally i see at this point no particular reason to question that mostly because i see this as more a generational/temporal study.

and this is not the only such study being conducted on this generational basis.
this is potentially a huge amount of data, btw.

the central elements in the brief emphasize structural features in part because of the size of the cohort and the duration of the information that's gathered.

i've looked around a fair amount---the main study's not out yet. given the way in which the brief works, i expect that there'll be a combination of structural and anecdotal elements in the results, by which i mean that i expect there will be a fair presentation of a quite large and complicated data set.

but the outline of the research brief is pretty clear---look at the guardian article.

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