In-work poverty and retirement attitudes among a cohort born in 1958

Qualitative interviews were conducted with a subset of 36 purposively selected study members, with varied work histories, which explored attitudes, aspirations, plans and expectations for retirement and the factors – past, present and projected future – that  influenced the way they felt about retirement.  The interviews took place as part of a wider project funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, which also included quantitative analysis of lifetime employment history data and responses to questions about retirement asked at 50 and 55.