Working papers

Education from sixteen to twenty-three- CLS working paper 1985/7

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

School examinations failure- CLS working paper 1985/6

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.

Women and children at risk- CLS working paper 1985/4

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.

Material circumstances of NCDS families- CLS working paper 1985/3

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.

Attitudes to work- CLS working paper 1985/2

Joan Payne looks at attitudes to their current job among NCDS respondents at age 23, including satisfaction with pay level, prospects, interest and skills.  Gender differences are explored.

Keywords: 1958 cohort study, NCDS, National Child Development Study, employment, job, career, gender, pay, training.

Work histories and employment outcomes at age 23- CLS working paper 1985/1

Joan Payne explores the concept of ‘full entry to the labour market,’ defined as at least two years continuous emplyment in one job.   78% of NCDS 23-year-olds satisfied this criterion in the 1981 follow-up.   The gender breakdown was 83% of men, 72% of women.

The paper looks at the link between education and employment outcomes.  More than one in four men who left FT education at age 18 later returned to full-time education after a break of more than 5 months (e.g. the ‘Gap Year’ effect)

Keywords: 1958 cohort study, NCDS, employment, job, career, education, unemployment, gender gap, gap year.

Unexpected success and failure in obtaining qualifications- CLS working paper 1984/14

Mayer Ghodsian investigates continuities and discontinuities in school attainment reported retrospectively at the NCDS4 follow-up, and patterns of achievement after leaving school.

Keywords: 1958 cohort study, National Child Development Study, NCDS, education, qualifications, economic activity, SES, social class, young adult.

Relationship of body mass index to morbidity in young adults- CLS working paper 1984/13

Chris Power compares body-mass index and self-rated bodysize in the NCDS4 follow-up, and looks at the prevalence of reported health problems within BMI categories, separately for men and women.

Keywords: 1958 cohort study, National Child Development Study, NCDS, BMI, body-mass index, height, weight, health, morbidity, obesity, adiposity, gender, economic activity, SES, social class, young adult.

Partnership breakdown and the formation of new families- CLS working paper 1984/12

Dorothy Henderson finds that 56% of 23-year-old respondents in the National Child Development Study 1981 follow-up had lived with a spouse or cohabitee.

84% married their first partner either before living together or after a period of cohabitation.   16% did not marry their first partner.

Women were more likely than men to have had a partner.

Life table methods are used to examikne separately for male and female respondents the effect of a range of characteristics identified from previous research into marital breakdown, on the rate at which first partnerships broke down.

Keywords: 1958 cohort study, National Child Development Study, NCDS, marriage, cohabitation, spouse, cohabitee, husnband, wife,  partnership breakdown, stable relationship, young adult.

Current labour market experience of the apprentice-trained- CLS working paper 1984/10

Lois Cook analyses why, at age 23 in the National Child Development Study, a quarter of employed men and a third of employed women were not working in the trade in which they had trained.

Keywords: 1958 cohort study, National Child Development Study, NCDS, labour market, gender, apprentice, economic activity, SES, social class, young adult.

Unsuccessful education courses- CLS working paper 1984/11

Richard Ives analyses why 10% of respondents at age 23 in the National Child Development Study reported an unsuccessful  education course.   Those whose fathers were in manual work had a higher incidence of experiencing an unsuccessful course (ie they failed to gain the required qualification).

Keywords: 1958 cohort study, National Child Development Study, NCDS, labour market, gender, education, economic activity, SES, social class, young adult.

Analysis of Response, NCDS4 follow-up- CLS working paper 1984/9

Raja Iyer  analyses patterns of response among different categories of people, to the age 23 follow-up survey of the National Child Development Study.

Keywords: 1958 cohort study, National Child Development Study, NCDS, response, bias, attrition, gender, education, economic activity, SES, social class, young adult.