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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.
People who remain members of clubs and societies throughout their lives tend to have a higher daily step count and exercise more in their mid-40s.
A new report by Professor Shirley Dex and Kelly Ward analysing parental care and employment using the Millennium Cohort Study has just been published by the Equal Opportunities Commission.
Data from the 2004/5 sweeps of the NCDS and BCS is now available from the Data Archive
Reports investigating Infant Mortality by Andrew Cullis and Ethnic Minority mothers in England by Hiranthi Jayaweera et al from NPEU are available from CLS
Professor Neville Butler, founder of both the 1958 and 1970 Birth Cohort Studies and an ardent supporter of the Millennium Cohort Study, died on February 22 at the age of 86.
New Data from the National Child Development Study, 1970 British Cohort Study and the Millennium Cohort Study is available to download from the Data Archive. NCDS Data for 1958-2000 has been restructured and redeposited, with a number of improvements. SN 5565 Childhood Data, Sweeps 0-3, 1958-1974 SN 5566 Sweep 4, 1981 (SN5566) SN 5567 Sweep […]
Previously unavailable data from BCS age 16, 26 and 30 is now available to download from ESDS.
The Economic and Social Research Council has commissioned a scoping study to explore the potential use of the recorded resources from the BBC Child of Our Time project to social science researchers in conjunction with the ESRC’s investment in quantitative research resources, the Millennium Cohort Study in particular
Fieldwork for MCS3 (Age 5) in England and Wales finished at the end of October 2006. Almost 12,000 families took part – about 9,800 in England and about 2,100 in Wales. Interviewing in Scotland and Northern Ireland is continuing until the end of the year but we hope that in total over 15,000 families will take part.
Between 12th and 14th September 2006, over 200 individuals involved in large-scale birth cohort studies following children born around the turn of the new millennium attended the International Conference on Child Cohort Studies at St Catherine’s College, Oxford.
Following the success of the International Conference on Child Cohort Studies earlier this month, CLS have launched an International Zone on their website.
A study of people now in their 40s has revealed that those who went to single-sex schools were more likely to study subjects not traditionally associated with their gender than those who went to co-educational schools.
CLS is currently hosting a visitor from Australia. Carol Soloff is the Project Manager for Growing Up in Australia, the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC), a study very similar to CLS’s Millennium Cohort Study (MCS).
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Our 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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