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.
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Derived variables
BCS70 Age 10 Derived Variables
This User Guide describes the dataset of derived variables for the 1980 sweep of the 1970 British Cohort Study
Date published: 1 February 2013
Derived variables
BCS70 Age 5 Sweep Derived Variables
A description of the derived variables in the age 5 sweep of the 1970 British Cohort Study
Date published: 1 February 2013
User guides
NCDS Age 7-11 Bristol Social Adjustment Guides
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.
Date published: 1 January 2013
User guides
NCDS Age 7-16 Measures of Ability
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.
Date published: 1 December 2012
User guides
NCDS Area Data User Guide
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.
Date published: 1 December 2012
Survey reports
The art of asking questions about religion
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.
Date published: 1 November 2012
Data notes
BCS70: The Art of Asking Questions about Religion
Investigation of the ways in which the wording of questions about religion affects the response
Date published: 1 November 2012
User guides
NCDS Age 50 Guide to the Dataset
Final version of the dataset userguide for NCDS age 50 sweep
Date published: 1 October 2012
Technical reports
MCS Age 11 Dress Rehearsal Technical Report
Technical Report for the dress rehearsal of MCS5
Date published: 1 October 2012
Data notes
BCS70 Age 34 Assessment of Symptoms Associated with Dyslexia
The aim of the repost was to obtain a true estimate of the distribution of dyslexic symptoms in a representative adult population of 34-year-olds.
Date published: 1 September 2012