Data from the latest 1970 British Cohort Study follow-up are now available from the UK Data Archive. The survey was conducted when the cohort members were aged 38 and used a telephone interview for the first time.
The main aim of the survey was to explore the factors central to the formation and maintenance of adult identity in the following domains: lifelong learning; relationships, parenting and housing; employment and income; health and health behaviour; and citizenship and values. The main topics covered were: housing; relationship history; births and other pregnancies; periods of lone parenthood; children and the wider family (social relationships and support); family income; employment status/employment history; academic education; general health; and smoking.
Data are available for nearly 9,000 cohort members and can be linked to information from previous BCS70 surveys to provide longitudinal data from birth to 38 years.
Ryan Bradshaw
Senior Communications Officer
Phone: 020 7612 6516
Email: r.bradshaw@ucl.ac.uk