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.
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)
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
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
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.
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
Report on NCDS 5th sweep survey
Coding Frames for Open-ended questions in the 5th sweep of NCDS
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.