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
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
BCS70 Sample, Attrition and Non-Response
The BCS70 sample, attrition and non response:Problems of attrition in collecting longitudinal data: the case of BCS70. What do we know about non-response/attrition? What can we do about it?
Date published: 1 May 2012
Data notes
BCS70 Age 16 Enhancing the Head Teacher School level Dataset
Information on the data cleaning and matching of Age 16 school data with BCS70, and on the reliability of the resulting dataset
Date published: 1 May 2012
BCS70 Age 42 Survey Consultative Working Groups Guidance
Content guidance for the age 42 survey of BCS70
Date published: 1 May 2012
Questionnaires and interviewer instructions
BCS70 Age 42 Self-Completion Questionnaire
Self-Completion questionnaire for BCS Age 42 Sweep
Date published: 1 May 2012
User guides
NCDS revised region variables
Date published: 1 March 2012
User guides
NCDS Revised Region Variables User Guide
The full National Child Development Study dataset includes a variety of geographical information which is available for analysis.
Date published: 1 March 2012
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