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.
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User guides
MCS Age 14 Physical Activity: Accelerometer dataset
This user guide accompanies the deposit of the Millennium Cohort Study’s physical activity data.
Date published: 16 May 2023
Questionnaires and interviewer instructions
Next Steps Age 32 Sweep – Content Summary
Next Steps Age 32 Sweep – Content Summary
Date published: 20 January 2023
Questionnaires and interviewer instructions
NCDS Age 62 Sweep – Biomeasures Summary Brief
1958 British Birth Cohort Study (National Child Development Study) Age 62 Sweep Biomeasures – 2022 Data Collection Update
Data Collection
Seated and Standing Blood Pressure
Grip Strength
Venous Blood Collection (non-fasting) and Centrifugation
Anthropometry: Weight and Body Fat, Waist and Hip Circumference
Timed Walk
Leg Raise/Balance
Date published: 19 December 2022
User guides
MCS Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) User Guide
This guide describes the data linkage of health administrative records from the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) to survey data for cohort members in the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS). User guide updated: 2025.
Date published: 7 December 2022
User guides
NCDS Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) User Guide
This guide describes the data linkage of health administrative records from the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) to survey data for cohort members in the National Child Development Study (NCDS). User guide updated: 2025.
Date published: 1 September 2022
Technical reports
BCS70 Video Call Pilot
Report on pilot to explore feasibility of using computer-assisted video interviewing with BCS70 cohort members
Date published: 3 August 2022
Questionnaires and interviewer instructions
BCS70 Age 51 Sweep – Content Summary
BCS70 Age 51 Sweep – Content Summary
Date published: 3 August 2022
User guides
BCS70 Age 16 Survey Leisure and Television Diaries User Guide
Date published: 1 April 2022
User guides
Bristol Social Adjustment Guide Forms at ages 7 and 11 – User Guide
This document has been prepared to accompany the deposit with the UK Data Service at the University of Essex, of all available completed Bristol Social Adjustment Guide forms collected in sweeps 1 and 2 of the National Child Development Study when cohort members were seven years old in 1965 and eleven years old in 1969.
Date published: 3 March 2022
Data notes
Next Steps continuous weekly income – Note
We have recently detected a bug in the code used to derive continuous weekly income at age 25 (W8DINCW). We debugged the code and have now redeposited the amended variable. It was made available for download via the UK Data Archive in July 2021.
Date published: 8 November 2021