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.
This User Guide accompanies the deposits at the UK Data Archive of derived variables for each sweep of BCS70. These derived variable datasets are found under the study number for each of the sweeps and include variables for country of interview, region and government office regions.
User guide for the BCS70 age 42 survey dataset
Review of research using information from the childhood waves of BCS70 (birth to 16 years) as either health outcomes or as predictors of later health outcomes.
This review covers research using information from the childhood waves of BCS70 (birth to 16 years) as either health outcomes or as predictors of later health outcomes. This paper will serve as a useful entry point for researchers investigating the extant literature on health using BCS70 data.
A description of the derived variables in the age 5 sweep of the 1970 British Cohort Study
This User Guide describes the dataset of derived variables for the 1975 sweep of the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70).
This User Guide describes the dataset of derived variables for the 1980 sweep of the 1970 British Cohort Study
This User Guide describes the dataset of derived variables for the 1986 sweep of BCS70
This User Guide describes the dataset of derived variables for the birth sweep of the 1970 British Cohort Study.
We have included new questions in the 2012 survey of the BCS70, asking explicitly about belief in God and an afterlife. We provide a first look at preliminary findings from these new questions, which reveal the complexity of many respondents’ beliefs.
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.
Assessment of Literacy and Numeracy data collected between ages 21 and 34