Our online bibliography is an excellent resource for finding publications based on data from BCS70. It includes over 5,000 publications which use data from our four studies, and is searchable by study, year, author, journal name, title and abstract.
Since the birth survey in 1970 there have been nine ‘sweeps’ of all cohort members. Click on a sweep below to learn more about the information collected. The latest sweep, at age 51, is now complete.
Data from all three waves of our survey of five national longitudinal cohort studies, including BCS70, are now available. Find out about the topics covered, response and how to access the data.
In addition to the main BCS70 sweeps there have been a number of sub studies. You can find out more about these on the following pages:
In April 2020 the 1970 British Cohort Study and our study participants turned 50!
To commemorate this huge milestone, we celebrated BCS70’s contribution to science and society by publishing 50 stories over 50 weeks on the CLS website and on social media.
People who went to private school are more likely to be a healthy weight and have lower blood pressure in their mid-40s compared to their state school counterparts.
People who remain members of clubs and societies throughout their lives tend to have a higher daily step count and exercise more in their mid-40s.
The trauma associated with care experience casts a long shadow on mothers’ mental health and that of their children, finds new UCL research released today (7 February 2024).
Being an only child doesn’t affect your development – family background matters more.
Self-Completion questionnaire for BCS Age 42 Sweep
Authors: Centre for Longitudinal Studies
Date published: 1 May 2012
PDF: 433,6 KB
BCS Age 42 Paper representation of the main stage questionnaire with routing
Authors: Centre for Longitudinal Studies
Date published: 1 May 2012
PDF: 1,67 MB
We’ve published guidance to help users find out what’s in our data.
Most BCS70 data are available through the UK Data Service. Visit the UK Data Service study page for BCS70 [SN 200001].
Phone: 020 7612 6107
Email: g.ploubidis@ucl.ac.uk
George is Professor of Population Health and Statistics at the UCL Social Research Institute and currently holds the posts of Principal Investigator of the National Child Development Study and 1970 British Cohort Study at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies. Prior to joining UCL he held posts at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Cambridge. George is a multidisciplinary quantitative social scientist and a longitudinal population surveys methodologist. His main research interests relate to socioeconomic and demographic determinants of health over the life course and the mechanisms that underlie generational differences in health and mortality. His methodological work in longitudinal surveys focusses on applications for handling missing data, causal inference and measurement error.