Documentation

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.

NCDS revised region variables

NCDS Age 23-50 Partnership Histories

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

Deriving highest qualification in NCDS and BCS70

This Data Note explains the derivation of variables on Highest Educational Qualification obtained by cohort members in the National Child Development Study (NCDS) and the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70).

NCDS Birth-Age 50 Target and Achieved Samples

Table of target and actual sweep samples for NCDS up to age 50

NCDS Age 46 Technical Report

Technical report for the 7th sweep of NCDS

NCDS Age 42 Derivation of Hope-Goldthorpe Occupational Classification

This Data Note accompanies syntax devised to create a Hope-Goldthorpe scale classification of occupations for data from the 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS) Sweep 6 (age 42)

NCDS 2006 Re-deposit User Guide

User guide to accompany the redeposit of data up to age 46

NCDS Age 46 Guide to the Dataset

User guide for the age 46 sweep of NCDS

NCDS Age 33-42 Data Note 5: Partnership Histories

NB This publication has recently been superseded by the results of an exercise to distil employment data from NCDS4 onwards into one consolidated dataset. The dataset was deposited at the UK Data Archive in 2012, and is available for download. The user guide which accompanied that deposit are available from the User Guide section.

NCDS 2004 – Technical Report Appendix C – CodeBook and Edit Instructions

NCDS Age 46 Technical Report Appendix A: Telephone Survey Instructions

Instructions for the telephone survey used for the age 46 survey of NCDS.