The study covers the period 1954-1955. The main part of the collection comprises 191 accounts of interviews, complete with kinship charts, stored in one archival box. These papers are sorted into thirteen files.
There are two files of eleven interviews from the pilot stage; one file of fifty six interviews with married, widowed and single men from the main survey; one file of sixty interviews with married and unmarried women from the main survey; one file of sixty four interviews with widowed women from the main survey; eight files of background material such as chapter drafts, correspondence, questionnaires and related reports.