This project is a two-way knowledge exchange collaboration between researchers at the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) and national and international non-academic organisations.

These include:

• Administrative Data Research UK (ADR UK)
• UK Statistics Authority (UKSA)
• National Statistics Institute of Chile (INE).

Aims

The project’s aims are:

1. to understand the challenges public organisations face in the UK and Chile when translating academic research into improved policy decisions and efficient public services.
2. to maximise the global reach of the research conducted by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies on administrative data linked to UK longitudinal population studies and its influence internationally.

The project will use data from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) which has been tracking around 19,000 young people since they were born in 2000-02.

Background

The background to the project is Principal Investigator Nicolás Libuy’s ongoing research into the impact of early-life health conditions on educational outcomes using MCS, linked to administrative health and education records.

This research is framed in an even larger international effort to use population studies linked to administrative data to improve policy decisions and transform public services. However, the potential impact of these new data resources to affect policy – and its limitations – are still largely unexplored.

The project will include workshops, meetings and networking activities with national and international public agencies.

A report with results collected from the knowledge exchange activities will be published at a later date.