Talking to families in East London

The first round of interviews with 100 families living intwo East London neighbourhoods has unearthed newinformation on problems and strengths in these areas,families’ coping strategies, and area change. Families’dissatisfaction with the areas was high, compared with thenational average. But many people in these areas thoughtthey were getting better, far more than the nationalaverage. Families pointed to all sorts of improvements:physical changes, schools, community facilities,regeneration efforts.[...]

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Alternative title:	A report on the first stage of the research
Year of publication:	2001-02-01
Authors:	Mumford, Katharine
Institutions:	London School of Economics and Political Science
Published in:	London School of Economics and Political Science - CASE Reports CASEreport 9
Subject:	Kind \| Familie \| Famille \| Nachbarschaft \| Bevölkerung \| population \| Einkommen \| income

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Acknowledgements
Executive summary
1 Introduction
2 Method
Neighbourhood selection – links to the ‘12 Areas Study’
The neighbourhoods
Initial visits to the neighbourhoods
Initial reactions
Safety
Interview schedule development
Observation
Attrition
Contacting families
The interviews
3 Description of the neighbourhoods
West-City
East-Docks
4 Characteristics of the families interviewed, and comparisons with the neighbourhood populations
Tenure and housing type
Ethnicity
Age of children
Marital and couple status, and family composition
Income
Work status
Length of residence in the neighbourhoods
Movement
5 Emerging issues from the first round of interviews
Satisfaction with the neighbourhoods
Families’ desire to move
Community spirit
Neighbourhood change
Race and the changing ethnic composition of the neighbourhoods
Changing education
Changing childhoods: diminishing freedom and increasing fear
What would help the families and the neighbourhoods?
6 Conclusion
References
Appendix: The seven Single Regeneration Budget areas surveyed by MORI for the Department ofthe Environment, Transport and the Regions

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