Documentation

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.

  • National Child Development Study
  • 1970 British Cohort Study
  • Next Steps
  • Millennium Cohort Study
  • COVID Social Mobility & Opportunities study
  • Growing Up in the 2020s study
  • Growing up in Digital Europe
  • Children of the 2020s study
  • Early Life Cohort Feasibility Study
  • Generation New Era
  • linkage
  • Coding frames
  • Data notes
  • Derived variables
  • Ethical review and consent
  • Laboratory procedures
  • Questionnaires and interviewer instructions
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Data notes

NCDS Age 33 Data Note 6: Family Income and Wealth/ Weekly and Hourly Pay

The following documentation gives details of derived variables relating to family income and wealth; and weekly and hourly pay in NCDS5

Date published: 1 May 2000

User guides

NCDS Age 37 Sample Survey: Guide to the Data

Author: Brian Dodgeon and Peter Shepherd

A Guide to the NCDS 37-year Data available at the UK Data Archive

Date published: 1 May 2000

Data notes

NCDS Age 7-11 Notes on the Bristol Social Adjustment Guide

The BSAG was used in sweeps 1 and 2 of NCDS

Date published: 1 May 2000

Data notes

NCDS Age 33 Data Note 7: Revised Occupation Data for Current/last Job

Occupation information gathered during the NCDS5 survey was coded using CASOC (Computer-Assisted Standard Occupation Coding) software which created errors. This data note reports the re-coding of occupations

Date published: 1 May 2000

Data notes

NCDS Age 33 Data Note 8: Industry for Current/last Job

Information gathered in relation to the current or most recent job has now been coded using both the 1980 and the 1992 Standard Industrial Classification (SIC)

Date published: 1 May 2000

Data notes

NCDS Age 33 Data Note 9: Revised Region Data

Data Note reporting on the creation of a new regional variable which has fewer missing cases than previous

Date published: 1 May 2000

Data notes

NCDS Age 33 Data Note 10: Child Histories: Reconciling self-completion and interview data

This Data Note reports on work done to improve the quality and consistency of data relating to the children of cohort members available for NCDS5.

Date published: 1 May 2000

Showcards

BCS70 age 30 – questionnaire routing

Date published: 1 January 1999

Showcards

BCS70 age 30 – questionnaire introduction

Date published: 1 January 1999

User guides

BCS70 Age 26 Guide to the Data

Guide to the 26 year follow up for BCS70

Date published: 1 May 1996

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