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This survey was a follow-up to the 1972 national occupational mobility enquiry conducted from Oxford (SN 1097). Several sub-samples of respondents to the 1972 enquiry were selected on the basis of their mobility experience: i.e. either because they had experienced relatively long-range mobility, upward or downward; or because intergenerationally they had remained stable in class position.
These sub-samples were re-interviewed with the aim of collecting data on (i) their complete work histories and (ii) various aspects of their social lives outside of work, e.g. kinship relations, leisure activities and associates, friendship patterns, and participation in voluntary associations.
On the basis of these data it became possible to investigate (i) the way in which intergenerational class mobility is mediated through worklife movement; and (ii) how far class mobility is associated with more general discontinuities in social life.
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Respondent's occupational history from his first full-time employment to date; further details of the changes in the compostition of his family and household; relations with kin, associates, other friends, workmates, neighbours, etc. and on his life-style and pattern of social involvement generally, and including frequent references back to earlier periods in his life.