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Next Steps Age 31 Sweep – first draft questionnaire

20 August 2020

CLS is seeking input on the first draft questionnaire of the Age 31 Sweep of Next Steps, a longitudinal cohort study following 16,000 people born in England in 1989-1990.

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Next Steps Age 25 data now available

22 June 2017

Now that the participants have turned 25, this new data will allow researchers to explore how their educational choices, family resources and experiences in adolescence have influenced their life chances so far. The data includes extensive information about cohort members’ lives at this pivotal time.

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Newly released data available for study of millennial generation

26 August 2020

Newly released survey variables for Next Steps sweeps 1-7 (ages 14-20) are now available to download from the UK Data Service under the standard End User Licence (EUL).

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Newly available data on childhood mental health of 1958 cohort opens up research opportunities

5 May 2022

Researchers investigating the links between childhood mental health and people’s later outcomes can now access a wealth of new cohort study data.

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New Visiting Professor for CLS

16 September 2008

Elizabeth Cooksey from Ohio State University will be visiting CLS several times over the forthcoming year.

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New survey resources network

22 April 2009

The Survey Resources Network, a new service funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), will be officially launched on Thursday, April 23, 2009. The Survey Resources Network, a new service funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), will be officially launched on Thursday, April 23, 2009. The service will be funded for […]

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New research finds changes to social housing ‘penalty’

17 August 2015

An investigation into the effect of growing up in social housing on child development reveals significant changes since the 1970s.

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New research dispels myths surrounding single-sex schooling

19 September 2006

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.

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New possibilities for doing a PhD based on birth cohort data

17 March 2011

Six ESRC-funded studentships are available for 2011-12 entry to 3- or 4-year training programmes. No nationality restriction applied. Closing date: 4th April 2011.

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New PhD studentship offers opportunity to use data from the Millennium Cohort Study

18 December 2013

The Bloomsbury Colleges consortium is offering a PhD studentship that will explore the relationship between children’s physical activity and mental health using data from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS).

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New NSPCC briefing paper draws on MCS data

2 May 2012

The challenges facing first-time parents are examined in a new briefing paper from the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

News, Data release

New NCDS biomedical data released

30 January 2009

The data from the biomedical survey of the NCDS, when they were aged 44–45 years, has just been released by the UK Data Archive.

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