Centre for Longitudinal Studies

Documentation

Here you will find all the documentation for our 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.

  • National Child Development Study
  • 1970 British Cohort Study
  • Next Steps
  • Millennium Cohort Study
  • COVID Social Mobility & Opportunities study
  • Growing Up in the 2020s study
  • Growing up in Digital Europe
  • Children of the 2020s study
  • Early Life Cohort Feasibility Study
  • Generation New Era
  • linkage
  • Coding frames
  • Data notes
  • Derived variables
  • Ethical review and consent
  • Laboratory procedures
  • Questionnaires and interviewer instructions
  • Showcards
  • Survey reports
  • Technical reports
  • User guides

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Survey reports

MCS Age 14 Participant engagement research – National Children’s Bureau

Author: Emma Wallace, Jennifer Gibb and Vanessa Greene with Puja Joshi

This report presents findings from research with MCS members and their parents. It was carried out by NCB as part of a broader study of participant engagement being conducted in partnership with Ipsos MORI for the CLS.

Date published: 2 September 2013

Survey reports

MCS Age 14 and Understanding Society: Participant Engagement Research

This report presents findings from research that Ipsos MORI carried out with young people aged 10-15 to inform participant engagement approaches on the Age 14 Survey of the UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) and the youth panel of Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study

Date published: 1 September 2013

Data notes

MCS data note – Interpreting test scores at ages 3, 5 and 7

One particularly valuable element of MCS is the standardised tests undertaken by the cohort members to assess their cognitive skills and educational attainment. This data note gives an overview of the variables on performance in these tests at ages 3, 5 and 7.

Date published: 1 September 2013

MCS Age 11 Appendices: Section 1

Appendices: Section 1 for the MCS age 11 sweep

Date published: 20 May 2013

MCS Age 11 Appendices: Section 2

Appendices: Section 2 for the MCS age 11 sweep

Date published: 20 May 2013

MCS Age 11 Appendices: Section 3

Appendices: Section 3 for the MCS age 11 sweep

Date published: 20 May 2013

Technical reports

MCS Age 11 Technical Report

This report contains details of the design and conduct of the In-home survey for the fifth sweep of the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS5).The teacher survey is subject to a separate technical report and so is not discussed further in this report, the exception being the consents collected in relation to it.

Date published: 1 May 2013

Technical reports

MCS Age 11 Teacher Survey Technical Report

Technical report of the teacher survey for MCS5

Date published: 1 May 2013

MCS Age 11 Dress Rehearsal Appendices

Appendices for the dress rehearsal of MCS5

Date published: 1 May 2013

Questionnaires and interviewer instructions

NCDS Age 55 Questionnaire Documentation

Paper representation of the CATI and CAWI interviews conducted for the age 55 sweep of NCDS

Date published: 1 May 2013