ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a description of the Millennium Cohort Study, its design, and its history, showing how birth cohort studies can be used as a methodology to understand family, community, and social change. It also presents some results using data from the first two sweeps of the Millennium Cohort Study considering the family background and circumstances of the children’s mothers and their relationship to the age at which they had their first birth of child in order to provide an example of the substance of change.
