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Welcome to our news and blogs section. Here you’ll find the latest developments and insights from across our longitudinal studies.
Rates of obesity, high blood pressure and high cholesterol are lower among British adults in midlife compared to their counterparts in the US.
The Sutton Trust’s latest report into education mobility, an indicator of future social mobility, has found that children’s levels of achievement are more closely linked to their parents’ background in England than in many other developed nations.
A new study, published this week by the Institute of Fiscal Studies, concludes that young children’s cognitive or social and emotional development does not appear to be significantly affected by the formal marital status of their parents.
Sir Michael Rutter delivered the second Neville Butler Memorial Lecture, about the power and potential of longitudinal research, at the Institute of Education, London, on 31 March.
A report which makes extensive use of CLS data was published at the end of March by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Professor Jane Elliott is to take over as director of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, which houses three of Britain’s internationally-renowned birth cohort studies. She will succeed Professor Heather Joshi, who is stepping down after seven years in the post.
The Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (SLLS) has elected Professor Heather Joshi of CLS as its first President.
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.
CLS organised four workshops in local schools last week as part of ESRC’s Social Science Week.
A study involving more than 9,600 middle-aged men and women in England, Scotland and Wales has found that women outscored men in two verbal memory tests. Participants in the first test listened to 10 common words being read out and were then given two minutes to recall as many as possible. The second test required them to list the same 10 words about five minutes later.
CLS would be grateful if anyone who is carrying out research using data from any of the three birth cohort studies could remember to notify us of all resultant publications.
A new study by think tank Demos, which draws on data from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), blames a lack of spending at pre-school level for educational disengagement in children under four.
Fewer parents are managing to enrol children in their true ‘first choice’ primary schools than is generally thought, says a new study.
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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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