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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.
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).
CLS has set up a new working group to discuss measures of cognition and personality in the next round of NCDS and BCS70 fieldwork
A successful consultative conference was held on 24 July 2006 to discuss plans for the MCS4 survey, when the cohort members will be 7 years old.
Towards the beginning of 2008, CLS will begin fieldwork on the age 7 survey of members of the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS). We are inviting you join us at a consultative conference in London on Monday 24 July – we want to hear your thoughts on survey content and design!
The first two-day workshop on using the cohort studies to teach quantitative methods to students was successfully run at City University, London, on 21 and 22 June. The first two-day workshop on using the cohort studies to teach quantitative methods to students was successfully run at City University, London, on 21 and 22 June. There were twelve […]
On Monday 26 June over 50 researchers from both academia and government departments attended the NCDS and BCS70 Consultative Conference to discuss the design and content of the next round of fieldwork, which will take place in 2008.
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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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