COVID-19Our online bibliography is an excellent resource for finding publications based on data from BCS70. It includes over 5,000 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. Click on a sweep below to learn more about the information collected. The latest sweep, at age 51, is now underway.
Data from all three waves 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:
In April 2020 the 1970 British Cohort Study and our study participants turned 50!
To commemorate this huge milestone, we celebrated BCS70’s contribution to science and society by publishing 50 stories over 50 weeks on the CLS website and on social media.
Our podcast series, ‘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].
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 Research Director and 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.
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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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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