Our studies
Here you can search our series of working papers, dating back to 1983. These papers use data from our four cohort studies and cover a wide range of topics, from social inequalities and mobility, to physical health, education and cognitive development. Other papers in the series seek to improve the practice of longitudinal research. At the present time, we are only able to accept papers if at least one author is a member of the CLS research team. Some of the working papers below will subsequently have been published in peer-reviewed journals.
For more information about our working papers series, please email us at clsworkingpapers@ucl.ac.uk.
In this third piece of research in a 3-part series, Mayer Ghodsian analyses the relationship between alcohol consumption early-adulthood (age 23) and its associations with a wide range of characteristics during childhood and adolescence in the NCDS 1958 cohort.
Keywords: 1958 birth cohort, NCDS, National Child Development Study, alcohol, intoxication, drinking, adolescence, young adult.
In this second piece of research in a 3-part series, Chris Power and Mayer Ghodsian analyse the relationship between alcohol consumption in adolescence (age 16) and early-adulthood (age 23) in the NCDS 1958 cohort.
Keywords: 1958 birth cohort, NCDS, National Child Development Study, alcohol, intoxication, drinking, adolescence, young adult.
In this first piece of research in a 3-part series, Chris Power analyses the personal, social and economic characteristics of young adults in relation to alcohol consumption, using the NCDS 1958 cohort follow-up at age 23.
Keywords: 1958 birth cohort, NCDS, National Child Development Study, alcohol, intoxication, drinking, young adult.
Ken Fogelman looks at cohort members’ experiences between the ages of 16 and 23 in terms of apprenticeship training, non-apprenticeship training, post-school education for qualifications, unsuccessful courses, non-qualification educational courses, discontinuities between school and subsequent achievement and educational plans at 23.
Keywords: 1958 birth cohort, NCDS, National Child Development Study, education, employment, training, apprenticeship, qualifications.
This comprehensive list of publications arising from NCDS was prepared by the NCDS User Support Group in 1985, and updated in 1995.
Keywords: 1958 birth cohort, Perinatal Mortality Survey, NCDS, National Child Development Study, publications, multidisciplinary, education, employment, family formation, health, migration.
Peter Shepherd explains how NCDS originated in the 1958 Perinatal Mortality Survey, and expanded its reach thereafter, through various successive sources of funding, into a multidisciplinary longitudinal study looking at health, education, employment, health behaviours, family formation, and the ageing process.
Keywords: 1958 birth cohort, Perinatal Mortality Survey, NCDS, National Child Development Study, education, employment, data collection, survey methods, funding.
Joan Payne analyses the experience of those members of the 1958 cohort who undertook TOPS courses (Training Opportunities) during the period of being aged 16-23: their career before and after the TOPS course, their expectations, the characteristics of the course,and their view of the course in retrospect.
Keywords: 1958 birth cohort, NCDS, National Child Development Study, young adult, education, qualifications, employment, unemployment, TOPS, Training Opportunities
Joan Payne analyses the experience of those members of the 1958 cohort who undertook courses during the period of being aged 16-23: how many received training, the structure and location of the courses, subjects and qualifications gained.
Keywords: 1958 birth cohort, NCDS, National Child Development Study, young adult, education, qualifications, employment, training.
Richard Ives looks at the types of courses undertaken by members of the 1958 cohort during the period of being aged 16-23: the types of courses undertaken, subjects, and qualifications, in reation to employment and periods of unemployment and how the patterns break down in terms of social class of origin. The issue of recall bias is addressed in relaitonto discrepancies between reported O-levels and A-levels retrospectively at 23, compared with the school’s report of what had been achieved.
Keywords: 1958 birth cohort, NCDS, National Child Development Study, young adult, education, qualifications, employment, unemployment
Richard Ives folows up his earlier working paper on unsuccessful education courses, by cross-tabulating failure at shool exams with the results of apprenticeship courses and other post-school education courses.
Keywords: 1958 cohort study, NCDS, National Child Development Study, education, examination, exams, failure, young adult.
Dorothy Henderson examines the characteristics of female NCDS respondents at age 23 who had had at least one miscarriage or abortion.
She explores the relationship between miscarriage & abortions and stillbirths or deaths in the first month of life to children born to these women.
Keywords: 1958 cohort study, NCDS, National Child Development Study, family, neonatal mortality, perinatal mortality, infant death, stillbirth, miscarriage, abortion.
Dorothy Henderson looks at the different types of family that NCDS respondents are in at age 23, examining the effect of family size , economic activity, social class and housing tenure on income levels. One-parent famlies are compared to those with two parents, and married couple compared to those cohabiting. The effects of partnership breakdown are also examined.
Keywords: 1958 cohort study, NCDS, National Child Development Study, family, employment, gender, income, partnership breakdown.
Find the latest developments and insights from across all our longitudinal studies.
Our bibliography is a searchable database of published work based on our cohort studies. Search by keyword, author, date range and journal.
Data from our studies are mainly available through the UK Data Service. We run training to support researchers who are interested in using our studies in their work.
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