Life Patterns Project - Cohort 1
Life Patterns is an Australian Research Council (ARC) funded project following the lives of young Australians since the 1990s. The project has followed two cohorts of young Australians during the last 30 years: Cohort 1 who were aged 18 in 1991 and Cohort 2 who were aged 17 in 2005. Cohort 1 consists of over 29,000 participants who left secondary school in 1991. They were followed up yearly throughout the 1990s, then every two years since 2000. These participants, at the time of recruitment, were based in the Australian state of Victoria, and around 65% of this cohort are female.
Study design
Cohort
Number of participants at first data collection
29,155 (participants)
Age at first data collection
18 years (participants)
Participant year of birth
1973 (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
The local population at the time of recruitment.
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
1991
Primary Institutions
University of Melbourne
Links
education.unimelb.edu.au/life-patterns
apo.org.au/sites/default/files/resource-files/2016-11/apo-nid74309.pdf
Profile paper DOI
Funders
Australian National Training Authority (ANTA)
Australian Research Council (ARC)
Ongoing?
Yes
Data types collected
- Interview – unspecified
- Self-report questionnaire – unspecified
- Interviews or focus groups
- None
- None
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups
