| Dates | May 2012 – April 2013 |
|---|---|
| Age | 42-43 |
| Achieved sample | 9,841 (cohort members) |
| Respondents | Cohort member |
| Fieldwork agency | TNS-BMRB |
| Survey mode | Face to face |
| Data access | |
| Description |
User guide for the BCS70 age 42 survey dataset
Date published: 01/02/2014
PDF: 880,03 KB
This guide describes the data linkage of health administrative records from the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) to survey data for cohort members in the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70).
Date published: 08/02/2021
PDF: 369,44 KB
This user guide aims to describe and illustrate a straightforward approach to missing data handling, while detailing some more general considerations around missing data along the way.
Date published: 03/06/2024
PDF: 1000,62 KB
BCS Age 42 Paper representation of the main stage questionnaire with routing
Date published: 01/05/2012
PDF: 1,67 MB
Self-Completion questionnaire for BCS Age 42 Sweep
Date published: 01/05/2012
PDF: 433,6 KB
Technical Report of the Age 42 Survey of BCS70
Date published: 01/05/2012
PDF: 2,05 MB
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We have included new questions in the 2012 survey of the BCS70, asking explicitly about belief in God and an afterlife. We provide a first look at preliminary findings from these new questions, which reveal the complexity of many respondents’ beliefs.
Date published: 01/11/2012
PDF: 181,47 KB
This review covers research using information from the childhood waves of BCS70 (birth to 16 years) as either health outcomes or as predictors of later health outcomes. This paper will serve as a useful entry point for researchers investigating the extant literature on health using BCS70 data.
Date published: 01/10/2013
PDF: 1,07 MB
This User Guide accompanies the deposits at the UK Data Archive of derived variables for each sweep of BCS70. These derived variable datasets are found under the study number for each of the sweeps and include variables for country of interview, region and government office regions.
Date published: 01/02/2014
PDF: 307,78 KB
Review of Ethical procedures used for each Sweep of BCS70.
Date published: 01/01/2019
PDF: 4,18 MB
A 2013 research paper by two academics at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies on the beneficial effects of reading for pleasure in childhood has attracted a remarkable amount of interest from schools, libraries and literacy organisations around the world.
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Generation X suffers poorer mental health in mid-life than the Baby Boomers before them, according to new research from the UCL Institute of Education (IOE).
This research project uses evidence from all four of our cohort studies to investigate the short- and long-term health impacts of alcohol.
Find the latest developments and insights from across all our longitudinal studies.
The CLS Bibliography is a searchable database of published work based on our cohort studies. Search by keyword, author, date range and journal.
Data from our studies are mainly available through the UK Data Service. We run training to support researchers who are interested in using our studies in their work.
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