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.
Summary of questionnaire content for the age 50 sweep of NCDS.
Technical report to evaluate the usefulness of a supplementary paper self-completion questionnaire as a data collection instrument.
Table of target and actual sweep samples for NCDS up to age 50
Questionnaire given to cohort members for the Age 50 sweep of NCDS.
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)
User guide to accompany the redeposit of data up to age 46
Technical Report for the age 44 biomedical sweep of NCDS
NB This publication has recently been superseded by the results of an exercise to distil employment data from NCDS4 onwards into one consolidated dataset.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.