Documentation

Here you will find all the documentation for our 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.

  • National Child Development Study
  • 1970 British Cohort Study
  • Next Steps
  • Millennium Cohort Study
  • COVID Social Mobility & Opportunities study
  • Growing Up in the 2020s study
  • Growing up in Digital Europe
  • Children of the 2020s study
  • Early Life Cohort Feasibility Study
  • Generation New Era
  • linkage
  • Coding frames
  • Data notes
  • Derived variables
  • Ethical review and consent
  • Laboratory procedures
  • Questionnaires and interviewer instructions
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Survey reports

Early Life Cohort Feasibility Study: Acceptability of administrative data use with parents

This report outlines the findings from the public dialogue workshops, which explored the attitudes of parents of young children to the proposed uses of identifiable and de-identified administrative data in the Early Life Cohort Feasibility Study and their acceptability.

Date published: 15 February 2024

Survey reports

Early Life Cohort Feasibility Study: Acceptability of administrative data use

This report outlines the findings from the stakeholder interviews to the proposed uses of administrative data in the Early Life Cohort Feasibility Study.

Date published: 15 February 2024

Survey reports

Early Life Cohort Feasibility Study: Acceptability of administrative data use activation workshop report

This topline report summarises findings from the Early Life Cohort Feasibility Study stakeholder activation workshop. The purpose of the workshop was to discuss the findings from the stakeholder interviews and public dialogue research conducted in 2021 exploring attitudes towards CLS’ proposed uses of administrative data in the study.

Date published: 14 February 2024

Questionnaires and interviewer instructions

Early Life Cohort Feasibility Study: Final Questionnaire

This document contains the final questionnaire used for the Early Life Cohort Feasibility Study.

This questionnaire was first uploaded in February 2024 and the version for the ELC-FS data deposit was uploaded in August 2025.

Date published: 14 February 2024

Questionnaires and interviewer instructions

Millennium Cohort Study Sweep 8 (Age 23) Resident Partner Questionnaire

Partners of MCS cohort members completed this questionnaire for the Age 23 Sweep.

Date published: 27 November 2023

Questionnaires and interviewer instructions

Millennium Cohort Study Sweep 8 (Age 23) Main Questionnaire

MCS cohort members completed this questionnaire for the Age 23 Sweep.

Date published: 2 November 2023

User guides

MCS Linked education administrative datasets KS1-KS4 – Wales

Author: Karen Dennison, Andrew Peters, Emla Fitzsimons

User guide to Linked education administrative datasets KS1-KS4 – Wales.

Version 2.

Date published: 1 October 2023

Survey reports

MCS8 Qualitative Research Findings

The Child of the New Century (CNC) Study (also known as the Millennium Cohort Study) follows the lives of around 19,000 young people living across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.  Two stages of qualitative research were carried out to support the design of engagement approaches.

Date published: 15 September 2023

User guides

BCS70 Age 46 Survey User Guide

User guide for the BCS70 age 46 biomedical survey dataset.

Date published: 27 July 2023

Questionnaires and interviewer instructions

Next Steps Age 32 Questionnaire

Author: Centre for Longitudinal Studies

This questionnaire was given to participants of the Next Steps Age 32 Sweep.

Date published: 25 July 2023

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