Social participation: how does it vary with illness, caring and ethnic group

nor the Data Archive, however, bear any responsibility for the analysis presented here. I am grateful to participants at the CRSP seminar at the University of Loughborough and the Cardiff Social Stratification conference, who gave valuable feedback on earlier versions of this paper. I am also grateful to the University of Essex for funding my participation at the Cardiff conference. The paper was started while I was a visitor at DIW Berlin and completed during a visit to CASE at the London School of Economics. I am grateful to both institutions for their hospitality. The research presented here was initiated as part of a Joseph Rowntree Foundation funded project into long-term illness, ethnicity and poverty. I am grateful to the JRF for their support, and to colleagues in the project, in particular Sarah Salway, for helpful comments on drafts of this paper. Readers wishing to cite this document are asked to use the following form of words: Platt, Lucinda (May 2006) ‘Social Participation: How does it vary with illness, caring and ethni