COVID-19Our online bibliography is an excellent resource for finding publications based on data from BCS70. It includes over 4,000 publications which use data from our four studies, and is searchable by study, year, author, journal name, title and abstract.
Since the birth survey in 1970 there have been nine ‘sweeps’ of all cohort members. The most recent sweep was at age 46 and the data collected are available now from the UK Data Service. Click on a sweep below to learn more about the information collected. Due to the pandemic, the next sweep, which had been due to get underway in 2020, had to be postponed. We hope to launch this sweep in summer 2021.
Data from Waves 1 and 2 of our survey of five national longitudinal cohort studies, including BCS70, are now available. Find out about the topics covered, response and how to access the data.
In addition to the main BCS70 sweeps there have been a number of sub studies. You can find out more about these on the following pages:
This April the 1970 British Cohort Study and our study participants turned 50!
To commemorate this huge milestone, we’re celebrating BCS70’s contribution to science and society by publishing 50 stories over 50 weeks on the CLS website and on social media.
Over the course of six weeks, ‘50 Years of Life in Britain’ explores the contribution BCS70 participants have made to improving British science and society. The six-part series tells their story, and charts the first five decades of the study.
This cohort profile provides information about the background to the study as well as its sample size, content, and findings.
Elliott, J and Shepherd, P (2006)
Cohort Profile: 1970 British birth cohort (BCS70)
International Journal of Epidemiology, 35(4), 836-843
Self-Completion questionnaire for BCS Age 42 Sweep
Authors: Centre for Longitudinal Studies
Date published: 1 May 2012
PDF: 433,6 KB
BCS Age 42 Paper representation of the main stage questionnaire with routing
Authors: Centre for Longitudinal Studies
Date published: 1 May 2012
PDF: 1,67 MB
We’ve published guidance to help users find out what’s in our data.
Most BCS70 data are available through the UK Data Service. Visit the UK Data Service study page for BCS70 [SN 200001].
A 2013 research paper by two academics at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies on the beneficial effects of reading for pleasure in childhood has attracted a remarkable amount of interest from schools, libraries and literacy organisations around the world…
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Generation X suffers poorer mental health in mid-life than the Baby Boomers before them, according to new research from the UCL Institute of Education (IOE)…
This research project uses evidence from all four of our cohort studies to investigate the short- and long-term health impacts of alcohol…
The #1970BritishCohortStudy Age 42 Sweep included a repeat measure of a cognitive assessment used in childhood – en… https://t.co/JZtR8CdiY7
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Our 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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