Here you will find all the documentation for our four studies. This includes survey questionnaires, interviewer instructions, showcards, technical reports, survey reports, and derived variables. For more information, take a look at our guide to the different documentation types.
This guide describes the data linkage of health administrative records from the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) to survey data for cohort members in the National Child Development Study (NCDS).
This user guide aims to describe and illustrate a straightforward approach to missing data handling, while detailing some more general considerations around missing data along the way.
User Guide to the Age 44 Biomedical Sweep of NCDS
User Guide for the 2013 follow-up to NCDS when participants were age 55
Guide to additional variables deposited for NCDS PMS in 2014
This report explores the potential in harmonising elements of a prospective birth cohort study (NCDS) and a panel study of older people that includes a retrospective life history module (ELSA).
Review of the ethical practices throughout NCDS
Technical Report for the Age 55 sweep of NCDS
Paper representation of the CATI and CAWI interviews conducted for the age 55 sweep of NCDS
This document draws together information available on the key measures of ability that were gathered from members of the National Child Development Study (NCDS) during the three surveys carried out during the school years of the birth cohort.