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NCDS at 68 and BCS70 at 56: the Scottish perspective (ONLINE)

17 March 2025

Help shape the next sweeps of NCDS and BCS70. This session will focus on how these studies can support the specific data and evidence needs in Scotland. It is intended for Scottish delegates or those investigating the Scottish context.

NCDS at 68 and BCS70 at 56: the Welsh perspective (ONLINE)

17 March 2025

Help shape the next sweeps of NCDS and BCS70. This session will focus on how these studies can support the specific data and evidence needs in Wales. It is intended for Welsh delegates or those investigating the Welsh context.

NCDS at 68 and BCS70 at 56: open consultative workshop (ONLINE)

17 March 2025

Help shape the next sweeps of NCDS and BCS70. This online session is open to all, and gives delegates the opportunity to inform what we ask 1958 and 1970 cohort members in the next round of data collection. 

Introduction to geo-linking cohort and admin data to social and physical environmental data

16 May 2024

This workshop introduces participants to linking small-area level data on the local physical (air quality, greenspace etc) and social (access to services, deprivation) environment to cohort and administrative data.

Mental Health Data Tools: Harmony & TIDAL Workshop

21 July 2023

During this half-day in-person event attendees got an introduction to two new digital tools that were designed for researchers working with longitudinal data.

Consultation on the content and design of an Early Life Cohort Feasibility study for the UK

6 May 2021

This is a consultation organised by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies. We are seeking your input into the scientific direction and design of a new study, testing the feasibility of a new birth cohort study for the UK.

Millennium Cohort Study Age 22 Sweep: Consultative Workshop

26 April 2021

Over 50 stakeholders joined us for an interactive half-day event to help shape the content of the Millennium Cohort Study Age 22 Sweep. Participants attended themed discussion sessions to explore the key topics and questions to include in the next survey.

Handling missing data in the British cohort studies

13 January 2021

In this online workshop attendees will learn why principled methods of missing data handling are usually required to reduce bias and restore sample representativeness in long-running cohort studies. They will also discover how to undertake such analyses in practice. Analyses will be demonstrated using Stata, with a focus on multiple imputation. The 1958 National Child […]

Handling missing data in the British cohort studies

16 December 2020

In this online workshop attendees learnt why principled methods of missing data handling are usually required to reduce bias and restore sample representativeness in long-running cohort studies. They also discovered how to undertake such analyses in practice. Analyses was demonstrated using Stata, with a focus on multiple imputation. The 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS) […]

COVID-19 Data Dive: Exploring the social and economic impacts of the pandemic

8 October 2020

CLS is delighted to support this innovative event hosted by the UK Data Service. The challenge What do we know and what do we still need to ask about COVID-19 and its social and economic impacts on society using data such as the CLS national longitudinal cohort studies and the Understanding Society UK Household Longitudinal […]

Postponed: Handling missing data in the British cohort studies

25 November 2019

Attendees will learn why principled methods of missing data handling are usually required to obtain unbiased estimates in long-running cohort studies, learn how to undertake such analyses, and gain practical experience of doing so themselves using Stata, with a focus on multiple imputation. The National Child Development Study (NCDS) will be used throughout as a case study.

Handling missing data in the British cohort studies

16 October 2019

Attendees will learn why principled methods of missing data handling are usually required to obtain unbiased estimates in long-running cohort studies, learn how to undertake such analyses, and gain practical experience of doing so themselves using Stata, with a focus on multiple imputation. The National Child Development Study (NCDS) will be used throughout as a case study.

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