Studies

Examples of official statistics

Office for National Statistics

Census

British Crime Survey

Examples of personal documents

Samuel Pepys- recordings of life in England during 1660s

Anne Frank, documented life hiding from Nazis in Amsterdam during WW2

Longitudinal studies examples

7UP

Triplets

National child development survey

7UP

following 14 children from different social classes every seven years, starting in 1964,

Triplets Neubauer study

1960-70s that secretly separated triplets at birth through an adoption agency and tracked their development

Wilmott and Young- The Symmetrical Family

used diaries to track down the day to day activities the husband and wife couple did

Durkheim study

Suicide, 1890s, to approve sociology as a viable scientific discipline

James Patrick

Glasgow Gang, 1970s, understanding gang life, structure, activities