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Narratives of fathering young children in Britain: linking quantitative and qualitative analyses

Elliott, H; Parsons, SJ; Brannen, J; Elliott, J; Phoenix, A; (2018) Narratives of fathering young children in Britain: linking quantitative and qualitative analyses. Community, Work & Family , 21 (1) 10.1080/13668803.2016.1241758. Green open access

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Abstract

The paper examines how in Britain the time fathers and couples spend in employment shifts in the first years of children’s lives, the conditions under which this happens and how fathers feel about and experience time with their families and time in paid work. In order to achieve these aims new longitudinal analysis of the UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) is carried out together with secondary analysis of narrative case studies drawn from a qualitative study of Fatherhood across the Generations. By linking these datasets the paper examines the potential for corroboration and complementarity between different types of data. Further, it seeks to show how qualitative cases corroborate, elaborate and expand on the main employment trajectories in the MCS population of fathers and how these extend understandings of fathers’ experience of time within families.

Type: Article
Title: Narratives of fathering young children in Britain: linking quantitative and qualitative analyses
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1080/13668803.2016.1241758
Publisher version: http://doi.org/10.1080/13668803.2016.1241758
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © 2016 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: Fatherhood, linking data, work-family, experience of time, longitudinal work-family patterns
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1536182
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