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.
Towards the beginning of 2008, CLS will begin fieldwork on the age 7 survey of members of the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS). We are inviting you join us at a consultative conference in London on Monday 24 July – we want to hear your thoughts on survey content and design!
The first two-day workshop on using the cohort studies to teach quantitative methods to students was successfully run at City University, London, on 21 and 22 June. The first two-day workshop on using the cohort studies to teach quantitative methods to students was successfully run at City University, London, on 21 and 22 June. There were twelve […]
On Monday 26 June over 50 researchers from both academia and government departments attended the NCDS and BCS70 Consultative Conference to discuss the design and content of the next round of fieldwork, which will take place in 2008.
The summer 2006 issue of Kohort, the CLS newsletter, is now available online.
CLS publishes a new briefing paper on the returns to education
Men who have an A-level in mathematics are more likely to earn higher wages than their male peers who have A-levels in other subjects.
Statistics confirm that children who watch more than two hours of television a day at the weekend risk becoming obese adults. And despite health warnings, the rate of exercise has not increased among adults who are overweight as the result of inactivity.
Register before 1 July 2006 to qualify for our “early bird” discount for the International Conference on Child Cohort Studies.
The Spring 2006 issue of Kohort, the CLS newsletter, is now available online.
On 1 January 2006 a new two-year project started at CLS which will produce a set of teaching datasets and associated resources based on our three cohort studies (NCDS, BCS and MCS).
CLS is celebrating its first anniversary as a Resource Centre of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). In October 2004, the ESRC’s decision to fund CLS gave the data collection of the 1958, 1970 and Millennium cohort studies an assured future and recognised their value to the research, educational and policy communities in the UK and abroad.
Babies in minority ethnic groups are more likely to be breastfed and less likely to have mothers who smoke than white UK babies, according to new findings from the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education…
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