Documentation

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

This User Guide describes the dataset of derived variables for the 1975 sweep of the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70).

This User Guide describes the dataset of derived variables for the birth sweep of the 1970 British Cohort Study.

This User Guide describes the dataset of derived variables for the 1986 sweep of BCS70

This User Guide describes the dataset of derived variables for the 1980 sweep of the 1970 British Cohort Study

A description of the derived variables in the age 5 sweep of the 1970 British Cohort Study

This document draws together information available on the Bristol Social Adjustment Guides (BSAG) – key measures of behaviour that were gathered for members of the National Child Development Study.

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.

This document outlines information available on the characteristics of the areas in which members of the National Child Development Study (NCDS) were living at the time of selected surveys and which might be used for the study of, for example, the links between area social and economic conditions and individual social, economic and health outcomes. Appendices provide more details of the available area information.

We have included new questions in the 2012 survey of the BCS70, asking explicitly about belief in God and an afterlife. We provide a first look at preliminary findings from these new questions, which reveal the complexity of many respondents’ beliefs.