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.
Appendices for the technical report on the NCDS age 42 and BCS70 Age 30 sweeps.
Technical report on the NCDS age 42 and BCS70 Age 30 sweeps.
Data Note reporting on the creation of a new regional variable which has fewer missing cases than previous
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NB This Data Note has been partially superseded by the results of an ESRC-funded project consolidating and cleaning female partnership histories (but not male) for NCDS4, NCDS5 and NCDS6 (see ‘NCDS5-6 Data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.
The BSAG was used in sweeps 1 and 2 of NCDS
Data Note on the coding of qualifications reported in NCDS5
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)