Our studies
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.
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
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
Find the latest developments and insights from across all our longitudinal studies.
Our bibliography is a searchable database of published work based on our cohort studies. Search by keyword, author, date range and journal.
Data from our studies are mainly available through the UK Data Service. We run training to support researchers who are interested in using our studies in their work.
Centre for Longitudinal Studies
UCL Social Research Institute
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London WC1H 0AL
Email: clsdata@ucl.ac.uk
