Documenting lives: using the ONS LS to test the representativeness of TV's Up series
Aly Sizer discusses her research using the LSN to see if the children selected for the tv documentary Up series is representative of the wider population.
In Episode 3 of Series 1 of Linking our Lives, Aly Sizer from the Centre for Longitudinal Study Information and User Support (CeLSIUS) at UCL talks about her research on The Up-Series generation in the ONS Longitudinal Study. She explains the inspiration behind her research using the ONS Longitudinal Study to see if the children selected for the well-known and popular Up series of television documentaries were representative of the wider population and reveals what she found and what it tells us.
