New to the CLS cohort studies? This webinar will give you an overview of four internationally renowned national cohort studies and the wide range of opportunities they offer to researchers.
About the event
This flagship CLS webinar will give first-time users an insight into four world-leading cohort studies.
These studies follow generations born between 1958 and 2002 and are a powerful resource for addressing a wide range of scientific questions in various social, economic, health, political and geographical sciences. The data are free to download from the UK Data Service.
What’s covered?
You will learn about the data collected in each study, possible research topics, how to access and get started with the data and examples of the types of analyses that can be undertaken using the following studies:
Why attend?
- Gain an overview of the type of research topics that the data could offer.
- Find out about the types of analyses that can be performed with the data.
- Learn how the cohort studies could be used in coursework or dissertations.
- Discover how to access and get started handling the data.
- Get answers to specific questions about the cohort studies and how to use them.
Who should attend?
This webinar is suitable for a wide range of researchers including:
- postgraduate students (Masters and PhD) interested in using the cohorts for a dissertation or thesis
- undergraduate students looking for data resources for their final year dissertation
- researchers in academia (particularly early career researchers)
- researchers in the public or the third sector new to the cohort studies.
Who is presenting?
Morag Henderson
Professor of Sociology, and Director of the Millennium Cohort Study and Next Steps
Richard Silverwood
Associate Professor and Chief Statistician
Vanessa Moulton
Senior Research Fellow
Draft programme
What are birth cohort studies?
Overview of NCDS, BCS70, Next Steps and MCS
Type of information collected
Physical health
Mental health
Family and relationships
Education
Economics
Simple analyses
Confounder control
Repeated measures
Cross-cohort analysis
Available resources
Accessing the data
Data protocols, structure and merging
Study design and weights
Dealing with attrition
Where to go for more information
Previous attendee endorsements
The whole webinar was well structured, all parts were equally good and complemented each other very well.
Knowledgeable speakers, content wasn’t too advanced/specialist but also general enough to understand.
Studies covered
1958 National Child Development Study
The 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS) is following the lives of more than 17,000 people born in England, Scotland and Wales in a single week of 1958.
1970 British Cohort Study
The 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) is following the lives of around 17,000 people born in England, Scotland and Wales in a single week of 1970.
Next Steps
Next Steps follows the lives of around 16,000 people in England born in 1989-90.
Millennium Cohort Study
The Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) is following the lives of around 19,000 young people born across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in 2000-02.
