Welcome to our news and blogs section. Here you’ll find the latest developments and insights from across our longitudinal studies.
Increasing access to parks and gardens may not be enough to help teenagers in urban areas get a healthy amount of sleep.
A study of people now in their 40s has revealed that those who went to single-sex schools were more likely to study subjects not traditionally associated with their gender than those who went to co-educational schools.
CLS is currently hosting a visitor from Australia. Carol Soloff is the Project Manager for Growing Up in Australia, the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC), a study very similar to CLS’s Millennium Cohort Study (MCS).
CLS has set up a new working group to discuss measures of cognition and personality in the next round of NCDS and BCS70 fieldwork
A successful consultative conference was held on 24 July 2006 to discuss plans for the MCS4 survey, when the cohort members will be 7 years old.
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.
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