Welcome to our news and blogs section. Here you’ll find the latest developments and insights from across our longitudinal studies.
UCL and the University of Bristol are to lead the Population Research UK (PRUK) co-ordination hub, part of an existing strategic investment from the UKRI Infrastructure Fund.
The Sutton Trust’s latest report into education mobility, an indicator of future social mobility, has found that children’s levels of achievement are more closely linked to their parents’ background in England than in many other developed nations.
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.
A study involving more than 9,600 middle-aged men and women in England, Scotland and Wales has found that women outscored men in two verbal memory tests. Participants in the first test listened to 10 common words being read out and were then given two minutes to recall as many as possible. The second test required them to list the same 10 words about five minutes later.
On Tuesday 16 February Radio 4 launched a fascinating new five-part series called When I Grow Up.
The National Equality Panel today (27 January) published a major report: An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK.
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.
CLS has set up a new working group to discuss measures of cognition and personality in the next round of NCDS and BCS70 fieldwork
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.
Men who have an A-level in mathematics are more likely to earn higher wages than their male peers who have A-levels in other subjects.
Statistics confirm that children who watch more than two hours of television a day at the weekend risk becoming obese adults. And despite health warnings, the rate of exercise has not increased among adults who are overweight as the result of inactivity.
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The Spring 2006 issue of Kohort, the CLS newsletter, is now available online.
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