Citing our data

If you use any of our study data in your analyses, you should clearly cite this. To cite the CLS cohort data available at the UK Data Service, please use the citation text that appears on the UK Data Service page of each of our four cohort studies:

• 1958 National Child Development Study
• 1970 British Cohort Study
• Next Steps
• Millennium Cohort Study

This UK Data Service citation tool is designed to make citing data easy and straightforward. You will find it on every catalogue record page.

You should also acknowledge CLS in any published work using data from the one of our cohort studies. An example of an appropriate acknowledgement would be:

“The Economic and Social Research Council funds the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) Resource Centre (ES/W013142/1) which provides core support for the CLS cohort studies. While the CLS Resource Centre makes these data available, CLS does not bear any responsibility for the analysis or interpretation of these data by researchers.

The CLS cohorts are only possible due to the commitment and enthusiasm of their participants, their time and contribution is gratefully acknowledged.”