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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User Guide for MCS Sweeps 1-5
User guide for Sweeps 1-5 of the Millennium Cohort Study
Date published: 02/09/2020
PDF: 2,19 MB
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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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MCS 9 Months User Guide to Initial Findings
Preliminary examination of findings in the first sweep of MCS
Date published: 01/01/2004
PDF: 1,51 MB
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MCS 9 Months Guide to the SPSS Dataset
User guide to the SPSS dataset for MCS sweep 1
Date published: 01/05/2004
PDF: 349,33 KB
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MCS 9 Months-Age 11 Guide to the Datasets (Eighth Edition)
Eighth Edition of MCS User Guide to the Datasets
Date published: 01/02/2014
PDF: 934,04 KB
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MCS 9 Months-Age 11 Guide to psychological and developmental inventories
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
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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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