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Latest 1970 British Cohort Study Partnership Histories dataset available

22 November 2016

The latest version of the British Cohort Study (1970): Partnership Histories (1986-2012) has been released at the UK Data Service.

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Latest edition of NCDS activity histories is now available

22 June 2016

The latest version of the National Child Development Study: Activity Histories (1974-2013) has been released at the UK Data Archive.

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New NCDS and BCS70 data available to researchers

18 August 2014

New data have been released from the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) and the 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS). Revised NCDS childhood dataset: additional variables from the birth survey Researchers can now access a new version of the NCDS childhood dataset, which covers information collected from 1958-1974 in the first three NCDS surveys. The […]

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Data available from 1970 British Cohort Study age 42 survey

12 March 2014

Data from the age 42 survey of the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) is now available to download from the UK Data Service.

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BCS70 10-year Special Needs Survey

8 October 2012

Data from the age 10 special needs survey of the 1970 British birth cohort is now available to access from the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS).

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MCS4 data now available from UK Data Archive

13 May 2010

Data from the fourth follow-up of the Millennium Cohort Study, which took place in 2008/9 when cohort members were around 7 years old, is now available from the UK Data Archive.

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NCDS8 data now available from UK Data Archive

29 March 2010

The first deposit of data from the 8th follow-up of the National Child Development Study, which took place in 2008/9 when cohort members were 50 years old, is now available from the UK Data Archive.

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New NCDS biomedical data released

30 January 2009

The data from the biomedical survey of the NCDS, when they were aged 44–45 years, has just been released by the UK Data Archive.

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New BCS70 dataset released

20 January 2009

CLS is pleased to announce that a new dataset, the BCS70 16-Year Arithmetic Test, has been released to users via the UK Data Archive

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MCS3 data deposited

24 April 2008

The data and documentation from the third sweep of the Millennium Cohort Study have now been deposited in the Data Archive

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New data from MCS, BCS and NCDS now available

3 May 2007

New data from MCS, BCS and NCDS is now available from the Economic and Social Data Service.

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New Data available for NCDS and BCS 2004/5 Surveys

3 April 2007

Data from the 2004/5 sweeps of the NCDS and BCS is now available from the Data Archive

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