One often hears of the immense difficulties of doing this - the attrition rates are high, especially in relation to those more disengaged young people who public policy aspires to support most.
My own follow-up study, after 25 years, provides a salutary tale of the importance of building good, credible relationships from the start. Without dwelling on the details, I wanted to find the 67 names I recorded in the 1970s. After discovering that seven were now deceased, I aimed to interview half of the others. I achieved that goal in 2000 and, with hand on heart, I can now claim to have set eyes on and spoken to 47 of those 60 men. People tell me that this is quite an achievement.
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