Documentation

Here you will find all the documentation for our four 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.

Showing 103 results.
Sort:
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
Download
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
Download
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
Download
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
Download
User guides

NCDS revised region variables


Date published: 1 March 2012
Download
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
Download
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
Download
Derived variables

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).


Date published: 1 January 2011
Download
Questionnaires and interviewer instructions

NCDS Age 44 Biomedical Questionnaire Documentation

Paper representation of the Age 44 Biomedical questionnaire


Date published: 1 May 2010
Download
Technical reports

NCDS Age 50 Technical Report

Technical Report for NCDS Sweep 8 conducted at age 50


Date published: 1 April 2010
Download
Technical reports

NCDS Age 50 Technical Report Appendices

Appendices to accompany the technical report for NCDS age 50 survey


Date published: 1 October 2009
Download
Questionnaires and interviewer instructions

NCDS Age 50 Questionnaire Documentation

Paper representation of CAPI and CASI interviews


Date published: 1 October 2009
Download
Contact us

Centre for Longitudinal Studies
UCL Social Research Institute

20 Bedford Way
London WC1H 0AL

Email: clsdata@ucl.ac.uk

Follow us