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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Joan Payne shows the activities of women and men at yearly intervals from first leaving full-time education until age 23 in the National Child Development Study 1981 Follow-Up.
Keywords: 1958 cohort study, National Child Development Study, NCDS, education, economic activity, SES, social class, time series, young adult.
Dorothy Henderson analyses the partners of NCDS respondents at the age 23 survey, looking at their age, the nature of the relationship, partner’s SES, economic activity, previous marital status, and the presence of children.
Keywords: 1958 cohort study, National Child Development Study, NCDS, partner, SES, social class, marital status, cohabiting, young adult.
Dorothy Henderson takes the age 23 sweep of the National Child Development Study and compares married and cohabiting respondents in terms of age at the start of current partnership, family size, prevalence of pregnancy, social position and economic activity.
Keywords: 1958 cohort study, NCDS, young adult, marriage, cohabitation, social class, SES, economic activity, pregnancy.
86% of NCDS respondents at age 23 said they had had a health problem since age 16.
Chris Power explores why this figure is so surprisingly large, looking at the social and economic characteristics of those who reported problems.
Keywords: 1958 cohort study, NCDS, health, sickness, smoking, drinking, alcohol, young adult.
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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Email: clsdata@ucl.ac.uk
