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NB This Data Note has been partially superseded by the results of an ESRC-funded project consolidating and cleaning female partnership histories (but not male) for NCDS4, NCDS5 and NCDS6 (see ‘NCDS5-6 Data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.
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
The following documentation gives details of derived variables relating to family income and wealth; and weekly and hourly pay in NCDS5
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.
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
Report on NCDS 5th sweep survey
Annotated version of the “What Do You Think?” questionnaire given to cohort members.
The instructions given to interviews for the Age 33 sweep of NCDS.
User guide to the 5th sweep of NCDS
Annotated mother interview administered in the Age 33 sweep of NCDS.