Briefings and impact

Millennium Cohort Study Age 3 Briefing 6: Child Health

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.

Millennium Cohort Study Age 3 Briefing 5: Parenting

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.

Millennium Cohort Study Age 3 Briefing 4: Grandparents

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.

Millennium Cohort Study Age 3 Briefing 3: Family Demographics

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.

Millennium Cohort Study Age 3 Briefing 2: Community

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.

Millennium Cohort Study Age 3 Briefing 1: Cognitive Development

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.

CLS Briefings – The intergenerational transmission of disadvantage and advantage

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.

CLS Briefings – Drinking and smoking

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.

CLS Briefings – The returns to education

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.

CLS Briefings – Obesity, diet and exercise

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.

CLS Briefings – Parenting

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.