| Dates | September 2003 to April 2005 |
|---|---|
| Age | 3 |
| Achieved sample | 15,808 (cohort members); 15,590 (families) |
| Respondents | Cohort members, parents, older siblings (up to two aged between 10 and 15, England only) |
| Fieldwork agency | NOP and Millward Brown Ulster |
| Survey mode | Face-to-face |
| 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 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
User guide to initial findings for the Age 3 sweep of MCS.
Date published: 01/07/2007
PDF: 2,54 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
Paper representation of CAPI questionnaire for the Age 3 sweep of MCS
Date published: 01/03/2006
PDF: 1,13 MB
Questionnaire given to older siblings of cohort members as part of the Age 3 sweep of MCS.
Date published: 01/05/2005
PDF: 41,7 KB
MCS sweep 2 Form about views on local area
Date published: 01/05/2004
PDF: 21,58 KB
Paper representation of CAPI questionnaire for child measurements
Date published: 01/05/2006
PDF: 127,86 KB
Technical report on the development and fieldwork of MCS2
Date published: 01/05/2003
PDF: 440,52 KB
Appendices to the technical report on the development and fieldwork of MCS2
Date published: 01/05/2003
PDF: 13,05 MB
Third edition of the MCS technical report on response rates including sweeps 2,3 and 4
Date published: 01/06/2010
PDF: 719,47 KB
Geographic Identifiers in MCS
Date published: 01/06/2009
PDF: 45,77 KB
One particularly valuable element of MCS is the standardised tests undertaken by the cohort members to assess their cognitive skills and educational attainment. This data note gives an overview of the variables on performance in these tests at ages 3, 5 and 7.
Date published: 01/09/2013
PDF: 570,24 KB
In an article published in 2008, Melhuish et al. investigated the influence of aspects of home environment upon literacy and numeracy achievement at school entry and at the end of the 3rd year of school. In their work, they created a “home learning environment index”
Date published: 01/07/2012
PDF: 211,17 KB
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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Disadvantaged children born at the start of the 21st century weighed up to 5kg more in their childhood and early teenage years than those from more privileged backgrounds, a new study has found.
This project examines young people’s mental health trajectories today in the context of previous generations, using data from all four of our cohort studies.
Find the latest developments and insights from across all our longitudinal studies.
The CLS 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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