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Welcome to the CLS training and support page. This page features recordings from past CLS training events, often with accompanying slides. Please use the menu below to navigate. If you’re looking for recordings of our COVID-19 survey training, please head to our separate COVID-19 training page. There are also many more training videos to explore on our CLS YouTube Channel.
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| Section / Title | Year |
|---|---|
| 1) Getting started | |
| Getting started: An introduction to four British cohort studies | 2022 |
| 2) The cohorts in focus | |
| Introduction to the 1958 National Child Development Study | 2023 |
| Introduction to the 1970 British Cohort Study | 2022 |
| Introduction to Next Steps: a longitudinal study in England | 2023 |
| Introduction to the Millennium Cohort Study | 2023 |
| 3) Enhanced data in focus | |
| Handling missing data in the British cohort studies | 2023 |
| Introducing longitudinal population studies from a biomedical science perspective | 2023 |
| An introduction to linked health administrative data in four cohort studies | 2022 |
| Millennium Cohort Study linked education administrative datasets | 2020 |
| Millennium Cohort Study: Time use diaries and accelerometry data | 2018 |
| 4) Themes in focus | |
| Mental health in four British cohort studies: measurement, research and access | 2023 |
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.
(2022, 84 mins)
Resources (all PDF slides opens in a new window):
Part 1 – Introduction
Part 2 – Content by ‘subject area’
Part 3 – Overview of the type of analysis
Part 4 – Getting started with the data
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):
(2023, 49 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):
These videos look in detail at some of the enhanced data we’ve collected as well as the data we’ve linked to our studies, including administrative health and education data.
(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
(2o23, 46 minutes)
Resources (all PDF slides opens in a new window):
Full slide deck (available from the CLOSER website)
(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.
Resources (all PDF slides opens in a new window):
These videos look in detail at particular themes that can be researched using the CLS cohorts.
(2023, 44 minutes)
This short webinar explores the wide-ranging opportunities for mental health research using British cohort studies.
Our 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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Email: clsdata@ucl.ac.uk
