Our studies
Welcome to the CLS training and support page.
Here you will find recordings from key CLS training events, including our new 2024 Getting Started webinar and Introductions to our four national cohort studies.
Please explore the resources using the menu below.
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This video gives an overview of how to access and get started using the data in our four British cohort studies. It’s suitable for Masters or PhD students interested in using the cohorts for a dissertation or thesis as well as researchers in academia or the third sector new to the studies.
(2024, 73 mins)
New to the CLS cohort studies? This webinar will give you an overview of four internationally renowned national cohort studies and the wide range of opportunities they offer to researchers.
The videos in this collection give first-time users and researchers less familiar with our cohort studies a comprehensive overview of their content and design. They also take a look at some of the types of research that can be conducted using the studies, including linked administrative data opportunities.
(2023, 83 minutes)
This webinar gives first-time users and researchers less familiar with the 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS) an insight into this invaluable longitudinal cohort study.
Resources: Slides (PDF format, opens in a new window).
(2022, 72 minutes)
This short webinar gives first-time users and researchers less familiar with the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) an insight into this invaluable longitudinal cohort dataset.
Resources: Slides (PDF format, opens in a new window).
(2023, 48 minutes)
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This training webinar gives first-time users and researchers less familiar with Next Steps an insight into this unique cohort of ‘millennials’ in England. It includes an introduction to the study aims, content and design as well as a helpful look at some of the types of research that can be conducted using the study
Resources (all PDF slides opens in a new window):
(2022, 87 minutes)
This webinar gives first-time users and researchers less familiar with the Millennium Cohort Study an insight into this unique longitudinal cohort dataset born at the turn of the century.
Resources (all PDF slides opens in a new window):
A discussion on the challenges of cross-study comparative research and possible solutions.
An overview of the tools and strategies available to manage and visualise longitudinal cohort studies.
(2023, 190 minutes)
View this webinar to learn why principled methods of missing data handling are usually required to obtain unbiased estimates in long-running cohort studies, learn how to undertake such analyses, and observe a demonstration of how to do so in practice using Stata, with a focus on multiple imputation.
00:00 Introduction
11:39 Missing data theory
40:14 Introduction to CLS cohorts
56:45 CLS Missing Data Strategy
2:01:14 Demonstration (using Stata)
2:33:22 Q & A session
Slides – all open as a PDF on the CLS website in a new window
0. Introduction Richard Silverwood
1. Missing Data Theory George Ploubidis
2 Introduction To CLS Cohorts Brian Dodgeon
3. CLS Missing Data Strategy Richard Silverwood
4. Missing Data Strategy Practical Martina Narayanan
(2024, 47 minutes)
Guidance on how to handle missing data in the 1970 British Cohort Study.
Watch webinars on thematic ways to explore the data from our four national cohort studies. The webinars are run by experts from CLS and partner organisations.
(2024, 46 minutes)
This webinar highlights some examples of research on families and relationships using CLS’ unique series of UK national cohort studies.
(2024, 51 minutes)
This webinar gives an overview of data for the study of ageing available in four internationally renowned cohort studies run by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS). It also gives examples of research using these fantastic data resources.
(2023, 46 minutes)
This webinar gives an overview of the data available on care and research opportunities in the four internationally-renowned cohort studies run by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS).
(2023, 44 minutes)
This short webinar explores the wide-ranging opportunities for mental health research using British cohort studies.
(2023, 46 minutes)
Resources (all PDF slides opens in a new window):
Full slide deck (available from the CLOSER website)
These videos look in detail at some of the enhanced data collected by researchers using our four national cohort studies. They look closer at the data linked to our studies, including administrative health and education data.
(2024, 28 minutes)
This webinar is aimed at researchers of all disciplinary backgrounds who are interested in hearing about the genetic and epigenetic resources available in the CLS cohort studies.
Resources (all PDF slides opens in a new window):
(2022, 86 minutes)
Several administrative health datasets have been linked to the CLS cohort studies survey data, opening up new possibilities for health researchers. In this webinar we focus on Hospital Episode Statistics (HES): what’s included in the linked datasets, how to access them and how to analyse the data.
Resources (all PDF slides opens in a new window):
(2020, 10 minutes)
This webinar introduces data users to the MCS linked education administrative datasets. Cohort members education records up to the age of 16 have been linked to their survey data by the Department for Education. Data sets are available from the UK Data Service Secure Lab under study number 8481.
(2018, 44 minutes)
This webinar gives data users an overview of the time use diaries and accelerometry data collected during the Millennium Cohort Study Age 14 Sweep.
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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.
Centre for Longitudinal Studies
UCL Social Research Institute
20 Bedford Way
London WC1H 0AL
Email: clsdata@ucl.ac.uk
