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.
Children in Welsh-English bilingual families appear to be rising to the challenge of mastering two languages before they reach school.
Almost one child in four is either overweight or obese at age three, a UK-wide survey has found. The study, the biggest-ever of its kind, measured the height and weight of 14,000 children aged three. Preliminary results reveal that 18 per cent were overweight and a further 5 per cent obese.
The scale and complexity of the child poverty challenge facing the Brown Government is highlighted by a new study of more than 15,500 three-year-olds.
Children born since the turn of the millennium are more likely to grow up believing that religious values are important if they have an older mother, new research suggests.
Many children from disadvantaged backgrounds are already up to a year behind more privileged youngsters educationally by the age of three, a UK-wide study has found.
A memorial service will take place on the afternoon of 9th July.
The charity Youth Support have kindly made Generations available to view on the web.
New data from MCS, BCS and NCDS is now available from the Economic and Social Data Service.
A new data note with code to generate the Hope-Goldthorpe scale for NCDS6 is available from CLS
A new report by Professor Shirley Dex and Kelly Ward analysing parental care and employment using the Millennium Cohort Study has just been published by the Equal Opportunities Commission.
Data from the 2004/5 sweeps of the NCDS and BCS is now available from the Data Archive
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