Why do participants consent to data linkage?

Almost 80 per cent of Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) parents regularly consented to allow health records of their children to be linked to survey results.

Child obesity risk increases almost three-fold in five generations

Children born since 1990 are up to three times more likely than older generations to be overweight or obese by age 10, according to a new study

Home moves in early years: the impact on children in the US and the UK

CLS appoints new director and secures funding for 2015-2020

Professor Alissa Goodman has been appointed director of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) at the same time the centre secures £17 million in funding for the years 2015 to 2020.

‘Stubborn’ group of underage drinkers buck overall decline in drinking among young people

New research has found that children from less well-off families in the UK are more likely to experiment with alcohol while still in primary school than youngsters from more advantaged backgrounds.

Longitudinal evidence features prominently in Education Select Committee’s investigation into summer-born children

Should all children be allowed to delay their entry to school, or should that option only be available to those born in the summer?

Former director of the Millennium Cohort Study receives New Year honour

Professor Heather Joshi, the founding director of the Millennium Cohort Study, has been awarded the CBE in the New Year honours list. Professor Joshi, who is now Professor Emerita of Economic and Developmental Demography in Education at UCL Institute of Education, received the award for her contribution to longitudinal and women’s studies. She was director […]

21st century childhoods may be very different but they still seem largely enjoyable

Do children born in the UK at the beginning of the new millennium have some reasons to be cheerful? Yes, it appears that they do.

One in five ‘children of the new century’ obese by age 11

One in five children born in the UK at the beginning of the new century was obese by the age of 11, a new study shows.

Initial findings from the Millennium Cohort Study Age 11 Sweep

The fifth MCS survey took place during 2012 when participants were aged 11. Our initial findings from the age 11 survey cover a range of themes, from family structure to child cognitive development.

Pathways from environmental risk to children’s psychological maladjustment and resilience

This research project tested how neighbourhood, family poverty and other adverse circumstances are related to children’s wellbeing, as gauged through emotional and behavioural outcomes.

School can worsen disabled children’s behavioural problems, researchers say

Much more could be done to help children with physical and learning disabilities cope with the challenges they face on entering school, new research suggests.