ALT Image shows front cover of Centre for Population Change Connecting Generations Working Paper 107 from October 2024 with title text: Do flexible hours and working from home allow parents to more equally share childcare tasks?

ALT Image shows a man and woman linking arms walking down a UK high street in front of shops with text: We are running the UK’s first Generations and Gender Survey. Family life in the UK has been rapidly changing over the past decades. At the same time, economic and political uncertainty has increased, impacting employment stability and social mobility. The cost of living crisis has placed an unprecedented strain on families by limiting economic resources, reorganising how families care for their children, and disrupting activities outside the home. Young adults have been particularly hard hit, facing unemployment, difficulties with housing, and economic precarity. Through the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS), we are able to better understand how young and mid-life adults in the UK are transitioning to adulthood, forming partnerships and families, and coping with recent economic, social, and political uncertainty.

ALT Image shows person sitting in an office typing at a laptop with the headline 'Generations and Gender Survey data' and the intro text: The data from the UK's first Generations and Gender Survey (UK GGS) is now accessible from the UK Data Service data catalogue. Comprehensive new survey data collected in the United Kingdom Generations and Gender Survey, 2022-2023 reveals the changing face of UK families amid recent economic, social, and political turmoil. The survey team collected data on partnerships, marriages, and fertility histories from a representative sample of 7,000 people aged 18-59 in the UK. They asked respondents about their family, economic and housing situation, inter-generational relationships, as well as attitudes on issues like Brexit and the environment. The survey, carried out in the UK for the first time, was run by the University of Southampton in cooperation with the National Centre for Social Research, and the international Generations and Gender Programme.