| Dates | January 2012 to February 2013 |
|---|---|
| Age | 11 |
| Achieved samples | 13,469 (cohort members); 13,287 (families) |
| Respondents | Cohort members, parents, class teachers |
| Fieldwork agency | Ipsos MORI |
| Survey mode | Face-to-face and postal |
| Data access | |
| Description |
User guide for Sweeps 1-5 of the Millennium Cohort Study
Date published: 02/09/2020
PDF: 2,19 MB
This user guide describes the linkage of medical records, child health reviews and prescription and immunisation records in Scotland (henceforth “Scottish Medical Records”) to cohort members’ data in the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS).
Date published: 15/02/2021
PDF: 313,94 KB
This user guide accompanies the datasets linking education data to the records of MCS participants based in England.
Version 3 (November 2024)
Date published: 25/11/2024
PDF: 990,4 KB
This guide provides information about the mcs_longitudinal_family_file which is an important dataset of the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS).
Date published: 02/09/2020
PDF: 166,27 KB
The Data Handling guide explains the data structures of MCS and provides solutions with different data handling strategies.
Date published: 02/09/2020
PDF: 1,14 MB
Eighth Edition of MCS User Guide to the Datasets
Date published: 01/02/2014
PDF: 934,04 KB
Guide to the psychological and developmental inventories in MCS, covering 9 months old to age 11.
Date published: 05/01/2015
PDF: 741,77 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
Child self-completion questionnaire for MCS5 conducted in England.
Date published: 01/05/2011
PDF: 1,55 MB
Child self-completion questionnaire for MCS5 conducted in Wales
Date published: 01/05/2011
PDF: 1,57 MB
Teacher survey for MCS5 surveys conducted in England
Date published: 01/05/2011
PDF: 284,66 KB
Teacher survey for MCS5 surveys conducted in Wales
Date published: 01/05/2011
PDF: 295,58 KB
The Millennium Cohort Study Sweep 5 (MCS5) Main Stage was carried out using computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) and computer-assisted self interviewing (CASI), both scripted in the software package Quancept. This document is the paper documentation of the computer-based script.
Date published: 01/05/2011
PDF: 1,87 MB
This report explores attrition in sweep 5 (age 11) of MCS and presents the procedures used in the construction of the sweep 5 unit non-response weights
Date published: 01/04/2014
PDF: 262,95 KB
This report contains details of the design and conduct of the In-home survey for the fifth sweep of the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS5).The teacher survey is subject to a separate technical report and so is not discussed further in this report, the exception being the consents collected in relation to it.
Date published: 01/05/2013
PDF: 726,24 KB
Technical report of the teacher survey for MCS5
Date published: 01/05/2013
PDF: 10,04 MB
Technical Report for the dress rehearsal of MCS5
Date published: 01/10/2012
PDF: 349,05 KB
The 5th sweep of the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS5) introduced the cohort to two cognitive tests drawn from the Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery, the Spatial Working Memory task (SWM) and Cambridge Gambling Task (CGT).
Date published: 01/01/2015
PDF: 585,11 KB
Geographic Identifiers in MCS
Date published: 01/06/2009
PDF: 45,77 KB
This volume presents initial findings on a number of key topics arising from the fifth survey of the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), carried out when the children were aged around 11 years.
Date published: 01/11/2014
PDF: 3,6 MB
Appendices for the dress rehearsal of MCS5
Date published: 01/05/2013
PDF: 25,26 MB
Appendices: Section 1 for the MCS age 11 sweep
Date published: 20/05/2013
PDF: 11,31 MB
Appendices: Section 2 for the MCS age 11 sweep
Date published: 20/05/2013
PDF: 20,86 MB
Appendices: Section 3 for the MCS age 11 sweep
Date published: 20/05/2013
PDF: 18,17 MB
This note reports on the approach adopted to ethical review and informed consent for the various stages of the Millennium Cohort Study.
Date published: 01/02/2019
PDF: 7,98 MB
This briefing, based on data from the Millennium Cohort Study, explores how children with persistent SEN felt about school, their academic ability and their future educational and occupational aspirations at age 14.
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