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 describes the dataset of derived variables for the birth 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 1980 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.
Technical Report of the Age 42 Survey of BCS70
Self-Completion questionnaire for BCS Age 42 Sweep
Information on the data cleaning and matching of Age 16 school data with BCS70, and on the reliability of the resulting dataset
BCS Age 42 Paper representation of the main stage questionnaire with routing
This document provides a brief guide to the data deriving from an arithmetic test administered to the subjects of the 1970 British Cohort Study
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).
Guide to the dataset for the BCS70 age 38 survey
Details on the ‘What about Work?’ and CARALOC (Locus of Control) Scales administered to the cohort at ages 10 and 16