Welcome to our news and blogs section. Here you’ll find the latest developments and insights from across our longitudinal studies.
Children conceived through medically assisted reproduction who are born small do just as well in cognitive tests during childhood and adolescence as naturally conceived children who are born a normal weight, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.
Being an only child doesn’t affect your development – family background matters more.
A questionnaire sent out to Head Teachers in 1986, when BCS70 cohort members were aged 16, has recently been keyed, cleaned, and linked to 4,592 individual cohort members. Now fully documented, the dataset was deposited by CLS at the UK Data Archive, and is now available for download (study number 5225).
Previously unavailable data from BCS age 16, 26 and 30 is now available to download from ESDS.
CLS held a successful conference on 10th December 2010 at which around 50 delegates including members of the scientific comminity, government policy-makeers and other stakeholders met to discuss the questionaire content for the next follow-up of the 1970 British Cohort Study which will take place in 2012 when study members are aged 42.
Research from the British Cohort Study, which studies subjects born in 1970, is to be featured in tonight’s Dispatches programme, on Channel 4 at 8.00pm. The programme, entitled Why our children can’t read, focuses on intervention during primary school and how this affects children’s reading ability and their future life chances.
We’ve now reached the end of our year-long celebration of the 1970 British Cohort Study. Over the past 50 weeks, we’ve traversed five decades of British social and political history, to tell the story of BCS70. Over to you, BCS70 heroes, for the final word in our 50 stories in 50 weeks journey…
In preparation for the ninth wave of the British Cohort Study 1970, which is scheduled to take place in 2012 when the cohort members will be aged 42, there is an open call for experts in relevant fields to advise the CLS team on the content of the 2012 survey.
Data from the age 10 special needs survey of the 1970 British birth cohort is now available to access from the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS).
Current coalition government policies that are designed to improve adults’ literacy and numeracy skills are overly focused on the world of work, according to two leading researchers in this field
Millennials from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds are 47% more likely to be on a zero-hours contract, and have 10% greater odds of working a second job, compared to their White peers, according to a new report from the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Carnegie UK Trust, and Operation Black Vote.
A third fewer baby boomers were in the labour market at age 62 than at age 55, with retirement being the most common reason for leaving the workforce.
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