User guides
MCS Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) User Guide
This guide describes the data linkage of health administrative records from the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) to survey data for cohort members in the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS). User guide updated: 2025.
Date published: 07/12/2022
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Handling mode effects in the CLS cohort studies user guide (Nov 2024)
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
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Millennium Cohort Study and Welsh Health Data (SAIL) linked health datasets user guide
This user guide describes the data linkage of health administrative records from the Welsh Health Data to survey data for cohort members in the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS).
The Welsh Health Data were provided by SAIL Databank, which contains information about all hospital admissions in Wales.
Date published: 18/11/2024
PDF: 334,87 KB
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MCS Age 17 Sweep User Guide
User guide for the Age 17 Sweep of the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS7).
Date published: 08/12/2020
PDF: 1,07 MB
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User guide to the MCS linked health administrative datasets – Scottish Medical Records (SMR)
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
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MCS User Guide to the Linked Education Administrative Datasets
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
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Longitudinal Family File Guide
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
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MCS Data Handling Guide
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
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Handling missing data in the CLS cohort studies – User Guide
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
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