MCS Age 23 Sweep

The Age 23 Sweep involves a 60-75-minute questionnaire, which will be completed either online or face-to-face.

A broad overview of the content of the survey is provided below:

• Family, relationships, and housing: household composition, partnerships, children and current accommodation.
• Employment and finances: work, income, wealth (e.g. home ownership) and financial literacy.
• Education: academic and vocational qualifications, and educational debts.
• Health and wellbeing: physical health, mental health, health behaviours (exercise, diet, smoking, drinking, drugs), height and weight, body image.
• Cognition: short-term memory, attention and processing speed.
• Identity, attitudes and future aspirations: including sexual orientation and gender identity, social networks and support, political and environmental attitudes, and plans for the future.
• Childhood circumstances and other life events: relationships in childhood, pregnancies, pregnancy outcomes and pregnancy planning.
• Activities and risky behaviours: leisure activities, social media usage, experience of crime and gambling.
• Cohabiting partners: topics including education, employment and income.
• Cohort members’ own children (if applicable): child development and parenting.
• Seeking permission to link information from routine administrative records (if not previously given) to cohort members’ study data.
• Seeking permission to link information from children’s health and education records (for cohort members who are parents) to the study data.

The Age 23 Sweep is core-funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.