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.
NB This Data Note has been partially superseded by the results of an ESRC-funded project consolidating and cleaning female partnership histories (but not male) for NCDS4, NCDS5 and NCDS6 (see ‘NCDS5-6 Data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.
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.
The BSAG was used in sweeps 1 and 2 of NCDS
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.
The following documentation gives details of derived variables relating to family income and wealth; and weekly and hourly pay in NCDS5
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
Report on NCDS 5th sweep survey
Questionnaire for cohort members administered in the Age 33 sweep of NCDS.
Coding Frames for Open-ended questions in the 5th sweep of NCDS
Annotated version of the “What Do You Think?” questionnaire given to cohort members.
Annotated version of the “Your Life Since 1974” questionnaire given to cohort members.