Since the initial birth sweep, NCDS cohort members have been followed up ten times. The latest sweep, at age 62, is now complete. Click on a sweep below to learn more about the information collected.
Data from all three waves of our survey of five national longitudinal cohort studies, including NCDS, are now available. Find out about the topics covered, response and how to access the data.
View the level of response for every major NCDS sweep and read our guidance on handling missing data.
In addition to the main NCDS sweeps there have been a number of sub studies. You can find out more about these on the following pages:
This short film and this commemorative book tell the story of one of the longest running and most important studies of its kind in the world.
This webinar will help researchers think about the possible consequences of mode effects in their research and describe methods for handling these in practice.
A third fewer baby boomers were in the labour market at age 62 than at age 55, with retirement being the most common reason for leaving the workforce.
This blog discusses different ways that population subgroups can be analysed and how sample sizes and statistical power are maintained.
What can cohort evidence tell us about the predictive power of early maths skills and what policymakers can do to boost the nation’s numeracy?
User Guide for the 2013 follow-up to NCDS when participants were age 55.
Authors: Matt Brown and Maggie Hancock
Date published: February 2015
PDF: 550,35 KB
Final version of the dataset user guide for NCDS age 50 sweep.
Authors: Matt Brown, Jane Elliott, Maggie Hancock, Peter Shepherd and Brian Dodgeon
Date published: October 2012
PDF: 865,42 KB
We’ve published guidance to help users find out what’s in our data.
Most NCDS data are available through the UK Data Service. Visit the UK Data Service study page for NCDS [SN 20000032].
Phone: 020 7612 6107
Email: g.ploubidis@ucl.ac.uk
George is Professor of Population Health and Statistics at the UCL Social Research Institute and currently holds the posts of Principal Investigator of the National Child Development Study and 1970 British Cohort Study at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies. Prior to joining UCL he held posts at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Cambridge. George is a multidisciplinary quantitative social scientist and a longitudinal population surveys methodologist. His main research interests relate to socioeconomic and demographic determinants of health over the life course and the mechanisms that underlie generational differences in health and mortality. His methodological work in longitudinal surveys focusses on applications for handling missing data, causal inference and measurement error.
Researchers investigating the links between childhood mental health and people’s later outcomes can now access a wealth of new cohort study data, originally collected more than 50 years ago.
Only children can manage the emotional and psychological demands of caring just as well as those who share duties with siblings, according to UCL researchers.
This project aims to develop a conceptual and empirical understanding of social isolation across the life course and generate comparable measures across cohorts.
Find the latest developments and insights from across all our longitudinal studies.
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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Email: clsdata@ucl.ac.uk
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