The next survey will take place in 2026. It will be an online survey that you can complete yourself (rather than with an interviewer). Over the next few months, we will be contacting you by post and email to invite you to take part.
Watch Professor George Ploubidis, director of the study, explain what the survey involves this time.
We’ll ask you to complete an online questionnaire, covering topics such as home life, relationships, housing, finances, health and wellbeing, leisure activities and attitudes.
There will also be a couple of questions that ask you to reflect on the past and future in your own words.
In all, it should take around 50 minutes to complete the whole questionnaire.
After you’ve completed the questionnaire, we will invite you to complete a set of online problem-solving tasks.
You can find more information about the Survey in our FAQs page.
We’ve followed your journey from the very beginning, tracking how your lives have changed over this time.
In this next survey we’re keen to hear about your relationships with family and friends, as well as support you might be giving others. This period can also be a turning point for people’s health, which can have an impact on how retirement and later life looks, so we’ll be asking questions about this too. We’re keen to hear about what thought – if any – you’ve given to retirement, and if you’re planning to stop work at state pension age or extend your working lives beyond this, whether through choice or necessity.
Your experiences at 56 will help us understand how your generation is navigating midlife, and will shape research and policy that benefits everyone.
