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.
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
Data Note reporting on the creation of a new regional variable which has fewer missing cases than previous
Data Note on the coding of qualifications reported in NCDS5
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.
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.
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)