Welcome to our news and blogs section. Here you’ll find the latest developments and insights from across our longitudinal studies.
Rates of obesity, high blood pressure and high cholesterol are lower among British adults in midlife compared to their counterparts in the US.
A series of Research Methods courses, run in partnership with Government Social Research Unit as part of the MSc in Policy Analysis and Evaluation, can also be taken as stand-alone courses as part of the continuing professional development.
The start of the eighth sweep of the National Childhood Development Study was marked by an article in The Guardian.
CLS Research Officer Jenny Neuburger has been awarded a prize for best paper submitted by a young economist at the Work Pensions and Labour Economics Conference.
From 1 August 2008, access to NCDS, BCS and MCS data via the UK Data Archive changed.
CLS launches a new report to mark 50 years of the National Child Development Study.
Professor Corak arrived on June 9, and will be staying at CLS until the end of July.
Data from the National Child Development Study have enabled researchers to produce four new studies.
More on Modern Motherhood Conference, held by the Family and Parenting Institute and the Open University
New network aims to promote the exchange of information and ideas between those running and analysing cohort studies of children in different countries.
The Centre for Longitudinal Studies is advertising a Studentship for a 3-year PhD, which involves analyses of the British Birth Cohorts data in relation to educational achievement in rural and urban areas.
The data and documentation from the third sweep of the Millennium Cohort Study have now been deposited in the Data Archive
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