Documentation

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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  • Growing up in Digital Europe
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BCS70 Sample, Attrition and Non-Response

Author: Tarek Mostafa

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

Author: Centre for Longitudinal Studies

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

Author: Jane Elliott, Jon Johnson and Peter Shepherd

The full National Child Development Study dataset includes a variety of geographical information which is available for analysis.

Date published: 1 March 2012

User guides

NCDS Age 18 Warnock Study of Handicapped School Leavers

Author: Samantha Parsons

The Warnock Study was carried out in the summer and autumn of 1976, with selected members of the 1958 National Child Development Study when they were 18 years of age.

Date published: 1 January 2012

Data notes

NCDS Age 50 Paper Self Completion – Response rates and response bias

The aim of this brief descriptive paper is to provide information on response to the paper self-completion questionnaire that formed part of the data collection for the eighth sweep of the 1958 British birth cohort study

Date published: 2 December 2011

User guides

MCS User Guide to Analysis Using STATA

Author: Sosthenes C. Ketende and Elizabeth M. Jones

This section will cover a short introduction to Stata mainly aimed at those using Stata for the first time.

Date published: 1 December 2011

User guides

NCDS Age 23-50 Partnership Histories

A guide to the partnership histories dataset collected from age 23 onwards

Date published: 1 November 2011

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