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NCDS Age 33 Data Note 7: Revised Occupation Data for Current/last Job

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

NCDS Age 7-11 Notes on the Bristol Social Adjustment Guide

The BSAG was used in sweeps 1 and 2 of NCDS

NCDS Age 33 Data Note 2: Partnership Histories

NB This Data Note has been partially superseded by the results of an ESRC-funded project consolidating and cleaning female partnership histories (but not male) for NCDS4, NCDS5 and NCDS6 (see ‘NCDS5-6 Data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.

NCDS Age 33 Data Note 6: Family Income and Wealth/ Weekly and Hourly Pay

The following documentation gives details of derived variables relating to family income and wealth; and weekly and hourly pay in NCDS5

NCDS Age 33 Data Note 1: Revised Housing Event History Dataset

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.

NCDS Age 33 Data Note 8: Industry for Current/last Job

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)

NCDS Age 33 Data Note 9: Revised Region Data

Data Note reporting on the creation of a new regional variable which has fewer missing cases than previous

NCDS Age 33 Data Note 10: Child Histories: Reconciling self-completion and interview 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.

NCDS Age 33 Data Note 4: Job Histories: employment status 1974-91

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

NCDS Age 33 Data Note 5: Subjects of Qualifications and Courses

Data Note on the coding of qualifications reported in NCDS5

NCDS Age 33 Survey Methodology

Report on NCDS 5th sweep survey

Behaviour Problems Index