BCS70 Age 56 Sweep

The 12th sweep of BCS70 will be carried out jointly with NCDS at age 68. The sweep will consist of a 50-minute web survey. Adding to the rich longitudinal data across the whole of life, the Age 56 Sweep will capture information at a critical age for understanding declines in labour market participation, and for collecting comparable information to NCDS at age 55.

The information collected will be ideal for investigating healthy ageing, extending working lives, pension adequacy and social care, among other issues.

The sweep will cover three broad areas:

• family, relationship and identity
• housing, finances and employment
• health and wellbeing.

Carrying out a joint sweep maximises the potential for cross-cohort comparisons through harmonisation. The web-only approach follows three successful web surveys of these cohorts during the Covid-19 pandemic.