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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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
Coding frames
Coding the aspirations for MCS age 7 sweep
This document explains how the CLS derived variables related to children’s responses to the question “when you grow up, what would you like to be?” in the MCS age 7 sweep
Date published: 1 September 2012
User guides
BCS70 Age 34 Adult Literacy and Numeracy Assessment Data
Assessment of Literacy and Numeracy data collected between ages 21 and 34
Date published: 1 August 2012
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