Here you will find all the documentation for our 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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Survey reports
MCS 9 Months ESRC End of Award Report
Report on the ESRC funding for MCS sweep 1
Date published: 1 May 2001
User guides
NCDS Age 23 Derived Variables
Derived variables for sweep 4 of NCDS
Date published: 6 May 2000
User guides
NCDS Age 33 Derived Variables
This documentation gives details of selected derived variables that have been developed by researchers during work analysing data from NCDS5. This is part of a programme of work to make available to the wider research community revised data from the 5th sweep of NCDS.
Date published: 1 May 2000
User guides
BCS70 Age 16 Guide to the Head Teacher Questionnaire
This document is a guide to the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) Sixteen-year Head Teacher Questionnaire.
Date published: 1 May 2000
MCS The Stratified Sample
Breakdown of the MCS sample
Date published: 1 May 2000
Data notes
NCDS Age 33 Data Note 1: Revised Housing Event History Dataset
The following document contains details of the revised dataset developed by Pamela Di Salvo at SSRU which contains amended data based on the Housing section of the NCDS5 ‘Your Life Since 1974’ event history instrument.
Date published: 1 May 2000
Data notes
NCDS Age 33 Data Note 2: Partnership Histories
NB This Data Note has been partially superseded by the results of an ESRC-funded project consolidating and cleaning female partnership histories (but not male) for NCDS4, NCDS5 and NCDS6 (see ‘NCDS5-6 Data Note’ downloadable here). The dataset is now available from the UK Data Archive.
Date published: 1 May 2000
Data notes
NCDS Age 33 Data Note 3: Employment and Childbearing: derivation & cleaning of the dataset
NB This Data Note is not available here for download, as we do not have the derived dataset itself, and the syntax contained in the appendices cannot readily be used to produce it from the raw NCDS5 data.
Date published: 1 May 2000
Data notes
NCDS Age 33 Data Note 4: Job Histories: employment status 1974-91
This NCDS Data Note reports on work done to improve the quality and consistency of data relating to the job histories of cohort members available for the fifth follow-up of the National Child Development Study
Date published: 1 May 2000
Data notes
NCDS Age 33 Data Note 5: Subjects of Qualifications and Courses
Data Note on the coding of qualifications reported in NCDS5
Date published: 1 May 2000
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