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NB This Data Note has been partially superseded by the results of an ESRC-funded project consolidating and cleaning female partnership histories (but not male) for NCDS4, NCDS5 and NCDS6 (see ‘NCDS5-6 Data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.
Data Note on the coding of qualifications reported 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.
Data Note reporting on the creation of a new regional variable which has fewer missing cases than previous
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.
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.
Annotated version of the “Your Child” questionnaire given to cohort members.