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"The Life Patterns research program is designed to follow patterns in young people's lives over time to gain a holistic understanding of the ways in which two generations of young Australians are responding to our rapidly changing world. The program is based at the Youth Research Centre at the University of Melbourne. The Life Patterns participants have generously provided data over many years, which has allowed the study to track changes in the lives of young Australians over the past three decades. Crucially, these have included the need for more education, greater insecurity in employment, and the decreasing relevance of traditional patterns of living. These changes have created conditions in which young people have needed to conceptualise their lives as a personal project."--Page 3.