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.
Assessment of combined pregnancy histories of BCS and NCDS when both surveys were conducted between 1999/2000
Questionnaire for cohort members administered for the NCDS age 42 and BCS70 Age 30 sweeps.
Technical report on the NCDS age 42 and BCS70 Age 30 sweeps.
Appendices for the technical report on the NCDS age 42 and BCS70 Age 30 sweeps.
Derived variables for sweep 4 of NCDS
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
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.
NB This Data Note has been partially superseded by the results of an ESRC-funded project consolidating and cleaning female partnership histories (but not male) for NCDS4, NCDS5 and NCDS6 (see ‘NCDS5-6 Data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.
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.
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