Our studies
Our briefings and impact library includes summaries of our research findings as well as reports highlighting the impact of our cohort studies.
This briefing note shows the overall prevalence of shoplifting and neighbourhood crime at age 17 and its co-occurrence with other types of offences. Various prior factors are examined in terms of their association with engaging in these crime types, including family socioeconomics and environment, mental health, and previous experiences of offending.
This briefing is one of 12 that distil the key findings of the first two surveys of the Millennium Cohort Study, as collected in Millennium Cohort Study Second Survey: A User’s Guide to Initial Findings.
This briefing focuses on child behaviour and covers topics such as why and how behaviour is measured, and how behaviour scores vary between children. This paper also relates the behavioural adjustment of the three-year-olds to different demographic and family background characteristics and their own development at nine months to see if early outcomes are differentially related to these factors.
This briefing is one of 12 that distil the key findings of the first two surveys of the Millennium Cohort Study, as collected in Millennium Cohort Study Second Survey: A User’s Guide to Initial Findings.
This briefing focuses on child health and covers topics such as general health and wellbeing, disability, asthma and acute illness, infections, injuries and immunisation.
This briefing is one of 12 that distil the key findings of the first two surveys of the Millennium Cohort Study, as collected in Millennium Cohort Study Second Survey: A User’s Guide to Initial Findings.
This briefing focuses on parenting and covers topics such as parents’ time with child, family activities, parents’ rules, parenting style, parenting competence, regular bedtimes and mealtimes, and parenting beliefs and values.
This briefing is one of 12 that distil the key findings of the first two surveys of the Millennium Cohort Study, as collected in Millennium Cohort Study Second Survey: A User’s Guide to Initial Findings.
This briefing focuses on grandparents and covers areas such as cohort members’ surviving grandparents, childcare and financial support, influence of grandparent carers, and grandparent characteristics.
This briefing is one of 12 that distil the key findings of the first two surveys of the Millennium Cohort Study, as collected in Millennium Cohort Study Second Survey: A User’s Guide to Initial Findings.
This briefing focuses on family demographics, providing information on the number of parents in the home at the first and second sweeps, parents living elsewhere, whether couples were married and whether the child had siblings or grandparents living at home.
This briefing is one of 12 that distil the key findings of the first two surveys of the Millennium Cohort Study, as collected in Millennium Cohort Study Second Survey: A User’s Guide to Initial Findings.
This briefing focuses on community and looks at the association of mobility with socio-economic and socio-demographic factors, and the respondents’ views about their local area.
This briefing is one of 12 that distil the key findings of the first two surveys of the Millennium Cohort Study, as collected in Millennium Cohort Study Second Survey: A User’s Guide to Initial Findings.
This briefing focuses on childhood development and examines the results of two cognitive skills assesments measured in the Age 3 sweep. These were the Naming Vocabulary Subtest of the British Ability Scales (BAS) and the School Readiness Composite (SRC) of the Revised Bracken Basic Concept Scale.
This briefing paper provides examples of research from the 1958 National Child Development Study and 1970 British Cohort Study to illustrate how multiple disadvantage and advantage are transmitted through the generations.
In addition to research around the social exclusion agenda that was the driving force of Labour’s Sure Start programme for pre-school children of deprived families, the paper considers the characteristics of children from poor backgrounds who go on to escape disadvantage in adulthood.
This briefing paper provides an overview of research findings on drinking and smoking from the 1958 National Child Development Study, 1970 British Cohort Study and the Millennium Cohort Study.
This briefing paper illustrates several ways in which educational data from the 1958 National Child Development Study and 1970 British Cohort Study have been used for investigating the returns to education.
This briefing paper looks at obesity and the dietary and exercise habits on cohort members from the 1958 National Child Development Study, the 1970 British Cohort Study and the Millennium Cohort Study.
It covers topics such as body mass index (BMI), education, diet and physical activity, and the consequences of obesity.
This briefing gives examples of some of the parenting data available in the three cohort studies: 1958 National Child Development Study, the 1970 British Cohort Study and the Millennium Cohort Study.
It covers topics such as how the experiences of parenting can affect children’s future outcomes, the impact of parenting on adult well-being, and the impact of mothers’ child-rearing attitudes.
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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