Briefings and impact

Briefing papers

Millennium Cohort Study 2010 briefing 13: Intergenerational inequality in early years assessments

This briefing is one of 14 that distil the key findings of the first three surveys of the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), as collected in Children of the 21st century (Volume 2): The first five years.

This paper uses MCS data to provide new evidence on the extent to which one measure of parental background, family income, is correlated with children’s behaviour and cognitive ability (assessed here by vocabulary).

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Millennium Cohort Study 2010 briefing 12: Ethnic inequalities in child outcomes

This briefing is one of 14 that distil the key findings of the first three surveys of the Millennium Cohort Study, as collected in Children of the 21st century (Volume 2): The first five years.

This paper reports findings from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) on the nature and extent of ethnic differences in early childhood outcomes up to age 5. The analysis of MCS data summarised here also considers background factors that are likely to have affected child outcomes. It looks at differences in socio-economic status (SES) and family characteristics, such as parental education and health, and also the home learning environment and parenting styles and rules.

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Millennium Cohort Study 2010 briefing 11: Quality of parental relationship and parenting behaviour

This briefing is one of 14 that distil the key findings of the first three surveys of the Millennium Cohort Study, as collected in Children of the 21st century (Volume 2): The first five years.

This paper uses data from couples in the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) to examine the self-reported perceptions of relationships between partners: how well they predict later breakup, and whether they are indeed related to parenting behaviours and child outcomes at age 5.

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Millennium Cohort Study 2010 briefing 10: Parental employment

This briefing is one of 14 that distil the key findings of the first three surveys of the Millennium Cohort Study, as collected in Children of the 21st century (Volume 2): The first five years.

This Briefing examines Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) parents’ varied employment hours and childcare combinations during the cohort children’s first five years. It focuses on diversity linked to ethnicity and to partnership status. The use of flexible working arrangements and their relationship to work–life balance are also considered.

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Millennium Cohort Study 2010 briefing 9: Parental and child health

This briefing is one of 14 that distil the key findings of the first three surveys of the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), as collected in Children of the 21st century (Volume 2): The first five years.

This paper examines new evidence from MCS on environmental factors on early childhood health and development, including the health of parents.

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Millennium Cohort Study 2010 briefing 8: Childcare in the pre-school years

This briefing is one of 14 that distil the key findings of the first three surveys of the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), as collected in Children of the 21st century (Volume 2): The first five years.

It looks at the Millennium cohort’s experience of care from people other than the mother, particularly in group childcare settings. It includes sections on the recent history of childcare in the UK, the use of centre-based care and findings on the quality of group care.

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Millennium Cohort Study 2010 briefing 7: Neighbourhood and residential mobility

This briefing is one of 14 that distil the key findings of the first three surveys of the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), as collected in Children of the 21st century (Volume 2): The first five years.

It includes sections on housing tenure, neighbourhood and mobility, mobility and follow-up surveys, residential mobility over three surveys, characteristics of movers, and perceptions of neighbourhood.

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Millennium Cohort Study 2010 briefing 6: Teacher assessment at age 5

This briefing is one of 14 that distil the key findings of the first three surveys of the Millennium Cohort Study, as collected in Children of the 21st century (Volume 2): The first five years.

This Briefing summarises an analysis of teachers’ assessments of children in the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) at age 5. These assessments complement the cognitive and behavioural development indicators described in Briefings 4, 12 and 13.

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Millennium Cohort Study 2010 briefing 5: Parental choice of primary school

This briefing is one of 14 that distil the key findings of the first three surveys of the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), as collected in Children of the 21st century (Volume 2): The first five years.

It includes sections on the evidence on school choice, state versus fee-paying schools, applying for a state school place, reasons for school choice, and realising school choice.

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Millennium Cohort Study 2010 briefing 4: Resilience in children’s development

This briefing is one of 14 that distil the key findings of the first three surveys of the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), as collected in Children of the 21st century (Volume 2): The first five years.

It explains what researchers at the UCL Institute of Education, have discovered about early childhood influences on the cognitive and
behavioural development of five-year-olds being tracked by the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS).

It includes sections on assessments of cognitive ability and behavioural adjustment, and predicting cognitive ability, behavioural adjustment, and pro-social behaviour all at age 5.