ONS Longitudinal Study Research Articles

Estimating ethnic change in London, 1981-91, using a variety of census data.

"This paper provides estimates of ethnic minority populations in 1981 in Greater London so that spatial population change can be measured. The estimation method involves the application of conditional probabilities of ethnicity given the country of birth. Several different data sources from the census of population have been used to compute the conditional probabilities. Each of these sources has deficiencies; the new method proposed here employs data on 1981-91 survivors in the ONS Longitudinal Study (LS). The estimated ethnic minority populations for 1981 are smaller than those generated using 1991 Census data, and hence the estimate of change is larger. Careful pairwise comparisons are made between alternative estimates. A set of very different maps of change, based on the LS method, are presented and interpreted for the ethnic groups of London at the borough scale."

Professionalisation, Feminisation, and Sociospatial Polarisation in London, 1971–1991

In this paper I examine the relationship between professionalisation, feminisation, and spatial differences in the take-up of home ownership in London. Findings are that the housing market has amplified, or entrenched, labour-market differences. The ONS Longitudinal Study (longitudinally linked census records) is used in support of the argument, which links individuals' migration, occupation, gender, and marital status with their access to owner occupation in high-status, or low-status, parts of London. Trends are established through comparison of changes over the period 1971–1981 with changes over the period 1981–1991.

Mortality variations in England and Wales between types of place: an analysis of the ONS longitudinal study

This study investigates the extent to which individuals, in England and Wales, in different types of place experience differential mortality once account is taken of personal (individual and household) social circumstances. Data comes from the Longitudinal Study of England and Wales of the Office of National Statistics, the respondents being a one percent national random sample of people aged between 25 and 74 at the 1971 census, followed until the end of 1985. For males and females separately, differences in mortality are found for the 36 types of Craig–Webber classification in models which include, at the individual level, a number of demographic and socio-economic variables (women being classified by their own occupation). In general, for both males and females, the same types of place have elevated or lowered mortality. For males a (cross-level) interaction exists between the proportion in the area in professional social classes and individual social class, the effects of individual social class being larger in areas containing a higher proportion of those in professional occupations. For females mortality is negatively related to the proportion of car-ownership in the area.

Limiting long-term illness: a question of where you live or who you are? A multilevel analysis of the 1971-1991 ONS longitudinal study

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: This paper forms part of the programme of work of the ESRC Health Inequalities Programme : DIMENSIONS OF HEALTH OVER PERSONS, TIME AND PLACE. Project Team Heather Joshi, Simon Gleave, Kevin Lynch, Richard Mitchell, Social Statistics Research Unit, City University; Dick Wiggins, Department of Sociology, City University; Pierella Paci, Department of Economics, City University; Mel Bartley, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL and SSRU.

Deprivation indicators as predictors of life events 1981-1992 based on the UK ONS Longitudinal Study.

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association between the level of social deprivation in electoral wards and various life events. Life events include mortality, self reported long term illness, and for...

Ethnic Differences in Women's Employment

This paper uses the 1 per cent household file from the Samples of Anonymised Records (SARs) for the 1991 Census and the ONS Longitudinal Study (LS) to explore variations in patterns of employment and occupational attainment among women from different ethnic groups. The analysis of the SARs focuses on the impact of lifecycle events on women's employment status and economic activity. The presence of a partner is identified as having the greatest impact on Pakinstani and Bangladeshi women's employment, while the presence of a pre-school child is most significant for White women's economic activity. White women also have a higher rate of part-time worlding than all other ethnic groups. These patterns are for malised in two models, one for economic activity and a second for full-time/part-time work. The LS is used to investigate the impact of these employment patterns on women's occupational attainment over a ten-year period. The analysis demonstrates that, while minority ethnic women in nonmanual occupations have similar longitudinal occupational profiles to White women, those in manual occupations fare worse than their White counterparts, despite the fact that a larger propotion of minority ethnic women are in fill-time employment.