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Welcome to our news and blogs section. Here you’ll find the latest developments and insights from across our longitudinal studies.
A dataset offering a wealth of information on the Scottish population has been created by the Longitudinal Studies Centre – Scotland. The dataset, known as the Scottish Longitudinal Study (SLS), links together routinely collected administrative data for a 5.3 per cent representative sample of the country’s population (about 270,000 people).
Data from Wave 2 of the COVID Social Mobility and Opportunities (COSMO) study is now available to researchers interested in exploring how COVID-19 and the cost-of-living crisis has affected the lives of 17-18-year-olds across England.
Data from Wave 1 of Children of the 2020s, the first national longitudinal study of babies to be launched in a generation, are now available.
New data from MCS, BCS and NCDS is now available from the Economic and Social Data Service.
Data from the 2004/5 sweeps of the NCDS and BCS is now available from the Data Archive
Data from the National Child Development Study have enabled researchers to produce four new studies.
Lisa Calderwood, Senior Survey Manager at CLS, has contributed to the recently published title Methodology of Longitudinal Surveys.
Shirley Dex, Professor of Longitudinal Research in Education at CLS, is interviewed about her approach to academic writing in a new book published by the Institute of Education.
The Executive Director of CLS has recently edited a new book entitled Exploring Data.
A new nationally representative birth cohort study launching in England this year will deliver valuable insights into child development, led by UCL researchers (Psychology & Language Sciences and Centre for Longitudinal Studies) and commissioned and funded by the Department for Education.
CLS is pleased to announce that a new dataset, the BCS70 16-Year Arithmetic Test, has been released to users via the UK Data Archive
Three early-career researchers were recognised at the award ceremony in Parliament Building earlier this month. A paper comparing the characteristics of childless women and mothers in the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Longitudinal Study by Simon Whitworth and Martina Portanti, of the ONS, has won the inaugural Neville Butler Memorial Prize competition for early-career researchers. Martina and Simon received […]
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Find the latest developments and insights from across all our longitudinal studies.
The CLS Bibliography is a searchable database of published work based on our cohort studies. Search by keyword, author, date range and journal.
Data from our studies are mainly available through the UK Data Service. We run training to support researchers who are interested in using our studies in their work.
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