November 2019 | Guidance
Representative timelines bring together different aspects of people’s experiences into one consistent view — enabling us to see life events, and interactions between events, over time. They can help determine what questions might help us arrive at a better understanding of people’s life experiences, and their interactions with social services.
This document provides guidance on the construction of representative timelines. Examples drawn from the first application of this work — a study of South Auckland families’ experiences around the birth of a child — illustrate the technique in practice.
