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Older mothers more likely to instil religious values

11 June 2007

Children born since the turn of the millennium are more likely to grow up believing that religious values are important if they have an older mother, new research suggests.

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Disadvantaged children up to a year behind by the age of three

11 June 2007

Many children from disadvantaged backgrounds are already up to a year behind more privileged youngsters educationally by the age of three, a UK-wide study has found.

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Memorial Service for Professor Neville Butler

30 May 2007

A memorial service will take place on the afternoon of 9th July.

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Generations: A tribute to the Life and Work of Neville Butler

16 May 2007

The charity Youth Support have kindly made Generations available to view on the web.

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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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Derivation of Hope-Goldthorpe Occupational Classification

3 May 2007

A new data note with code to generate the Hope-Goldthorpe scale for NCDS6 is available from CLS

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Forthcoming MCS Workshop

10 April 2007

Are you interested in attending a forthcoming MCS Workshop?

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Parental care and employment in early childhood

7 April 2007

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.

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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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Two new reports on Millennium Cohort Data published

3 April 2007

Reports investigating Infant Mortality by Andrew Cullis and Ethnic Minority mothers in England by Hiranthi Jayaweera et al from NPEU are available from CLS

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Obituary Professor Neville Butler

6 March 2007

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.

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Data recently deposited at the Data Archive

7 February 2007

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 […]

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