Training and support

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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Training videos on this page

 

 
Section / Title Year
1) Getting started
Getting started: An introduction to four British cohort studies 2023
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
Care in the Cohorts: measurement, research and access 2023

 

Getting started

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.

Getting started: An introduction to four British cohort studies

(2023, 78 mins)

You can download a PDF of the Getting Started slides here.

 

Watch the webinar on the CLS YouTube page

The cohorts in focus

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.

Introduction to the 1958 National Child Development Study

(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).

Full slide deck

Watch the webinar on the CLS YouTube page

Introduction to the 1970 British Cohort Study

(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).

Full slide deck

Watch the webinar on the CLS YouTube page

Introduction to Next Steps: a longitudinal study in England

(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):

Full slide deck

Watch the webinar on the CLS YouTube page

Introduction to the Millennium Cohort Study

(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):

Full slide deck

Watch the webinar on the CLS YouTube page

Enhanced data in focus

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.

Handling missing data in the British 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

Introducing longitudinal population studies from a biomedical science perspective

(2o23, 46 minutes)

Resources (all PDF slides opens in a new window):

Full slide deck (available from the CLOSER website)

Watch the webinar on the CLOSER YouTube page

An introduction to linked health administrative data in four cohort studies

(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):

Full slide deck

Watch the webinar on the CLS YouTube page

Millennium Cohort Study linked education administrative datasets

(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.

Full slide deck

Watch the webinar on the CLS YouTube page

Millennium Cohort Study: Time use diaries and accelerometry data

(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):

Full slide deck

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4. Themes in focus

These videos look in detail at particular themes that can be researched using the CLS cohorts.

Mental health in four British cohort studies: measurement, research and access

(2023, 44 minutes)

 

This short webinar explores the wide-ranging opportunities for mental health research using British cohort studies.

Full slide deck

Watch the webinar on the CLS YouTube page

Care in the Cohorts: measurement, research and access

(2023, 46 mins)

 

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).

Full slide deck

Watch the webinar on the CLS YouTube page

Contact us

Centre for Longitudinal Studies
UCL Social Research Institute

20 Bedford Way
London WC1H 0AL

Email: clsdata@ucl.ac.uk