| Dates | 1991 |
|---|---|
| Age | 33 |
| Achieved sample | 11,469 (cohort members) |
| Respondents | Cohort members, partners, children |
| Fieldwork agency | Social and Community Planning Research, NOP Market Research, and Research Surveys of Great Britain |
| Survey mode | Face to face with paper self-completion questionnaire |
| Data access | |
| Description |
User guide to the 5th sweep of NCDS
Date published: 01/05/1991
PDF: 5,71 MB
This user guide documents the harmonised indicators of all self-reported measures related to asthma in five British cohort studies: the MRC National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD), the 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS), the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS), Next Steps, and the Millennium Cohort Study.
Date published: 18/07/2025
PDF: 728,48 KB
This user guide documents the harmonised indicators of all self-reported measures related to diabetes in five British cohort studies: the MRC National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD), the 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS), the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS), Next Steps, and the Millennium Cohort Study.
Date published: 18/07/2025
PDF: 487,42 KB
This user guide accompanies the deposit of datasets on the Cohort Members (CM) fertility histories in four UK cohort studies: MRC National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD), the 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS), the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS), and Next Steps.
Date published: 18/07/2025
PDF: 594,92 KB
A user guide which provides guidance and recommendations for handling mode effects in CLS’ cohort studies through applied examples, using data from the National Child Development Study (NCDS) and Next Steps.
Date published: 26/11/2024
PDF: 2,3 MB
This guide describes the data linkage of health administrative records from the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) to survey data for cohort members in the National Child Development Study (NCDS). User guide updated: 2025.
Date published: 01/09/2022
PDF: 387,7 KB
User guide to accompany the redeposit of data up to age 46
Date published: 01/11/2006
PDF: 87,19 KB
This documentation gives details of selected derived variables that have been developed by researchers during work analysing data from NCDS5. This is part of a programme of work to make available to the wider research community revised data from the 5th sweep of NCDS.
Date published: 01/05/2000
PDF: 178,53 KB
A guide to the partnership histories dataset collected from age 23 onwards
Date published: 01/11/2011
PDF: 245,98 KB
This user guide aims to describe and illustrate a straightforward approach to missing data handling, while detailing some more general considerations around missing data along the way.
Date published: 03/06/2024
PDF: 1000,62 KB
Questionnaire for cohort members administered in the Age 33 sweep of NCDS.
Date published: 01/05/1991
PDF: 5,11 MB
Coding Frames for Open-ended questions in the 5th sweep of NCDS
Date published: 01/05/1991
PDF: 128,93 KB
Annotated version of the “What Do You Think?” questionnaire given to cohort members.
Date published: 01/05/1991
PDF: 821,99 KB
Annotated version of the “Your Life Since 1974” questionnaire given to cohort members.
Date published: 01/05/1991
PDF: 1,06 MB
Annotated child interview administered in the Age 33 sweep of NCDS.
Date published: 01/05/1991
PDF: 1,92 MB
Annotated version of the “Your Child” questionnaire given to cohort members.
Date published: 01/05/1991
PDF: 1,9 MB
Annotated mother interview administered in the Age 33 sweep of NCDS.
Date published: 01/05/1991
PDF: 1,45 MB
The following document contains details of the revised dataset developed by Pamela Di Salvo at SSRU which contains amended data based on the Housing section of the NCDS5 ‘Your Life Since 1974’ event history instrument.
Date published: 01/05/2000
PDF: 284,09 KB
NB This Data Note has been partially superseded by the results of an ESRC-funded project consolidating and cleaning female partnership histories (but not male) for NCDS4, NCDS5 and NCDS6 (see ‘NCDS5-6 Data Note’ downloadable here). The dataset is now available from the UK Data Archive.
Date published: 01/05/2000
PDF: 262,59 KB
NB This Data Note is not available here for download, as we do not have the derived dataset itself, and the syntax contained in the appendices cannot readily be used to produce it from the raw NCDS5 data.
Date published: 01/05/2000
PDF: 479,18 KB
This NCDS Data Note reports on work done to improve the quality and consistency of data relating to the job histories of cohort members available for the fifth follow-up of the National Child Development Study
Date published: 01/05/2000
PDF: 723,34 KB
Data Note on the coding of qualifications reported in NCDS5
Date published: 01/05/2000
PDF: 257,26 KB
The following documentation gives details of derived variables relating to family income and wealth; and weekly and hourly pay in NCDS5
Date published: 01/05/2000
PDF: 269,84 KB
Occupation information gathered during the NCDS5 survey was coded using CASOC (Computer-Assisted Standard Occupation Coding) software which created errors. This data note reports the re-coding of occupations
Date published: 01/05/2000
PDF: 202,48 KB
Information gathered in relation to the current or most recent job has now been coded using both the 1980 and the 1992 Standard Industrial Classification (SIC)
Date published: 01/05/2000
PDF: 279,42 KB
Data Note reporting on the creation of a new regional variable which has fewer missing cases than previous
Date published: 01/05/2000
PDF: 169,89 KB
This Data Note reports on work done to improve the quality and consistency of data relating to the children of cohort members available for NCDS5.
Date published: 01/05/2000
PDF: 967,65 KB
NB This publication has recently been superseded by the results of an exercise to distil employment data from NCDS4 onwards into one consolidated dataset. The dataset was deposited at the UK Data Archive in 2012, and is available for download. The user guide which accompanied that deposit are available from the User Guide section.
Date published: 01/05/2005
PDF: 97,75 KB
This Data Note explains the derivation of variables on Highest Educational Qualification obtained by cohort members in the National Child Development Study (NCDS) and the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70).
Date published: 01/01/2011
PDF: 514,11 KB
Table of target and actual sweep samples for NCDS up to age 50
Date published: 01/05/2008
PDF: 21,84 KB
Review of the ethical practices throughout NCDS
Date published: 02/06/2014
PDF: 1,76 MB
In this lecture Professor Alissa Goodman spoke about her research on inequalities, showing how both cross-sectional and longitudinal data are being used to illuminate and address some of the major social and policy questions of our time.
NCDS study members, Steve, Sally, Claire, Jackie, Paul and Nigel spoke to CLS about the essays they wrote when they were age 11, and how their lives have unfolded since then.
Substantial numbers of baby boomers, especially lower and middle earners, are expecting to work past state pension age.
Centre for Longitudinal Studies
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