| Dates | November 1999 to May 2000 |
|---|---|
| Age | 41-42 |
| Achieved sample | 11,419 (cohort members) |
| Respondents | Cohort members |
| Fieldwork agency | NatCen Social Research |
| Survey mode | Face-to-face |
| Data access | |
| Description |
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: 531,79 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: 486,86 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: 455,26 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
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
Technical report on the NCDS age 42 and BCS70 Age 30 sweeps.
Date published: 01/09/2001
PDF: 1,21 MB
Appendices for the technical report on the NCDS age 42 and BCS70 Age 30 sweeps.
Date published: 01/09/2001
PDF: 2,24 MB
This Data Note accompanies syntax devised to create a Hope-Goldthorpe scale classification of occupations for data from the 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS) Sweep 6 (age 42)
Date published: 01/05/2007
PDF: 153,15 KB
Assessment of combined pregnancy histories of BCS and NCDS when both surveys were conducted between 1999/2000
Date published: 01/12/2002
PDF: 436,93 KB
Assessment of combined household grid variables of BCS and NCDS when both surveys were conducted between 1999/2000
Date published: 01/12/2002
PDF: 592,55 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
UCL Social Research Institute
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London WC1H 0AL
Email: clsdata@ucl.ac.uk
