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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.
Working women in their early 30s in England are paid less than men of the same age, in the same types of jobs, who have similar levels of education and work experience.
The European Science Foundation has awarded funding to a joint project which aims to bring together leaders of national and regional children’s cohort studies, including the Millennium Cohort.
A dataset offering a wealth of information on the Scottish population has been created by the Longitudinal Studies Centre – Scotland. The dataset, known as the Scottish Longitudinal Study (SLS), links together routinely collected administrative data for a 5.3 per cent representative sample of the country’s population (about 270,000 people).
The initial sets of longitudinal data teaching resources for NCDS and BCS70 are now available on the CLS website.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has published two papers, entitled Mothers and the modern family and Ethnicity and patterns of employment and care, which use Millennium Cohort Study data.
Research from the British Cohort Study, which studies subjects born in 1970, is to be featured in tonight’s Dispatches programme, on Channel 4 at 8.00pm. The programme, entitled Why our children can’t read, focuses on intervention during primary school and how this affects children’s reading ability and their future life chances.
CLS is delighted to welcome two new colleagues. Professor John McDonald and Professor Robert Michael
CLS would like to gather information from users of CLS data sets. If you are using NCDS, BCS70 or MCS data in your research projects, please add details of any publications which involve the use of cohort data on the feedback form at www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/feedback.
Scottish children have a wider vocabulary and a better understanding of colours, numbers, sizes and shapes at the age of three than youngsters in the other UK countries.
Northern Ireland is the safest and best part of the UK in which to bring up young children, a new study suggests.
Children in Welsh-English bilingual families appear to be rising to the challenge of mastering two languages before they reach school.
Almost one child in four is either overweight or obese at age three, a UK-wide survey has found. The study, the biggest-ever of its kind, measured the height and weight of 14,000 children aged three. Preliminary results reveal that 18 per cent were overweight and a further 5 per cent obese.
The scale and complexity of the child poverty challenge facing the Brown Government is highlighted by a new study of more than 15,500 three-year-olds.
Ryan Bradshaw
Senior Communications Officer
Phone: 020 7612 6516
Email: r.bradshaw@ucl.ac.uk
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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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