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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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
Data notes
MCS Age 3 The home learning environment
In an article published in 2008, Melhuish et al. investigated the influence of aspects of home environment upon literacy and numeracy achievement at school entry and at the end of the 3rd year of school. In their work, they created a “home learning environment index”
Date published: 1 July 2012
User guides
NCDS Age 50 ‘Imagine You Are 60…’ User Guide
This document has been prepared to accompany the deposit, with the UK Data Archive at the University of Essex, of a data set of textual responses to an open ended question asked as part of the 2008/9 follow-up of NCDS.
Date published: 1 June 2012
Questionnaires and interviewer instructions
BCS70 Age 42 Main Stage Questionnaire
BCS Age 42 Paper representation of the main stage questionnaire with routing
Date published: 1 May 2012
Technical reports
BCS70 Age 42 Technical Report
Technical Report of the Age 42 Survey of BCS70
Date published: 1 May 2012
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