Young Lives India
Young Lives India is the India arm of a major international research study on childhood poverty, led by the University of Oxford. The study has been following the lives of 3,000 children in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana since 2001. These children belong to two groups one born in 2001-02 and another born in 1994- 95 and are now young adults.
Young Lives India is part of a broader international study tracking the changing lives of 12,000 children across Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam over 20 years.
Young Lives India conducts long-term research to understand how poverty and inequality shape children's lives. Their work covers:
- Longitudinal Research: Multiple rounds of surveys with 3,000 children, their caregivers, and community leaders, along with in-depth qualitative interviews with a smaller group of 48 children, their peers, and parents.
- School Surveys: Two school surveys at primary and secondary levels in both private and government schools, including a COVID-19 phone survey with 218 school principals.
- Policy & Communications: Sharing research findings with policymakers and relevant stakeholders to influence national programmes and improve lives of disadvantaged children and young people.
Their research investigates the impact of children's early circumstances on later outcomes across education and skills, employment, health and well-being, family lives, gender, and intersecting inequalities
The study aims to build knowledge on how early childhood experiences impact later life outcomes, taking into account intersecting inequalities such as wealth, gender, age, and ethnicity, as well as major external shocks including the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change and to inform national policies aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
