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.

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NCDS Birth-Age 50 Target and Achieved Samples

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


Date published: 1 May 2008
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Questionnaires and interviewer instructions

NCDS Age 50 Self-Completion Questionnaire Documentation

Questionnaire given to cohort members for the Age 50 sweep of NCDS.


Date published: 1 May 2008
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Data notes

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)


Date published: 1 May 2007
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User guides

NCDS 2006 Re-deposit User Guide

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


Date published: 1 November 2006
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Data notes

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NB This publication has recently been superseded by the results of an exercise to distil employment data from NCDS4 onwards into one consolidated dataset.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.


Date published: 1 May 2005
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Questionnaires and interviewer instructions

NCDS Age 42 / BCS70 Age 30 Questionnaire Appendices


Date published: 1 December 2002
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Questionnaires and interviewer instructions

NCDS Age 42 / BCS70 Age 30 Questionnaire

Questionnaire for cohort members administered for the NCDS age 42 and BCS70 Age 30 sweeps.


Date published: 1 December 2002
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Data notes

NCDS Age 42 and BCS70 Age 30 Data Note 2: Pregnancy Histories

Assessment of combined pregnancy histories of BCS and NCDS when both surveys were conducted between 1999/2000


Date published: 1 December 2002
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Data notes

NCDS Age 42 and BCS70 Age 30 Data Note 3: Household Grid Variables

Assessment of combined household grid variables of BCS and NCDS when both surveys were conducted between 1999/2000


Date published: 1 December 2002
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Technical reports

NCDS Age 42 / BCS70 Age 30 Technical Report

Technical report on the NCDS age 42 and BCS70 Age 30 sweeps.


Date published: 1 September 2001
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Technical reports

NCDS Age 42 / BCS70 Age 30 Technical Report: Appendices

Appendices for the technical report on the NCDS age 42 and BCS70 Age 30 sweeps.


Date published: 1 September 2001
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User guides

NCDS6/BCS 2000- Guide to the Combined Dataset


Date published: 1 June 2001
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