Welcome to our news and blogs section. Here you’ll find the latest developments and insights from across our longitudinal studies.
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 […]
People who are neurotic and those who are open to new experiences may share a significant portion of their genetic makeup, new research suggests.
Living in a good neighbourhood, having lots of friends and getting on well with brothers and sisters are more important to children’s happiness than growing up in a two-parent home, according to findings from the Millennium Cohort Study. Researchers at NatCen Social Research analysed information on more than 10,000 seven-year-olds born across the UK in […]
The first deposit of data from the 8th follow-up of the National Child Development Study, which took place in 2008/9 when cohort members were 50 years old, is now available from the UK Data Archive.
On Tuesday 16 February Radio 4 launched a fascinating new five-part series called When I Grow Up.
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.
An interim dataset based on a subset of the interviews conducted as part of the National Child Development Study 2008-9 survey has just been released for use. An interim dataset based on a subset of the interviews conducted as part of the National Child Development Study 2008-9 survey has just been released by the UK Data Archive. […]
The Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) is part of the team behind a new cohort study of current Year 11 students, which will investigate the educational and employment inequalities brought about by the COVID-19 crisis.
National Curriculum Key Stage 2 tests taken by 10- and 11-year-old children in England to assess progress in English and mathematics do not seem to affect children’s wellbeing, according to new research based on the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS).
Why do some people become involved in local clubs or volunteer to help in their community while others prefer to stay at home?
The literacy campaigners who commissioned the study are calling on politicians to tackle the divide in reading ability and wage inequality in adulthood by improving early-years education
New research from the University of Bristol suggests that Muslim women are more likely to be unemployed than white Christian women, even when they have the same qualifications and language abilities.
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