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1970 British Cohort Study Age 51 data now available

6 March 2025

Data from the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) Age 51 Sweep are now available to download from the UK Data Service.

Ageing Employment, income and wealth Expectations, attitudes and beliefs Family and social networks Health behaviour Housing and local environment Mental health and wellbeing Physical health Poverty

Non-cognitive skills: What are they and how can they be measured by the British cohort studies?- CLS working paper 2014/6

30 July 2017

Investigating individual differences in memory and cognition in the National Child Development Study cohort members using a life course approach- CLS working paper 2010/10

30 July 2017

Attitudes towards participating in fMRI studies amongst participants in a birth cohort study- CLS working paper 2010/8

30 July 2017

Understanding Participation: Being part of the 1958 National Child Development Study from birth to age 50- CLS working paper 2010/5

30 July 2017

The design and content of the ‘Social participation’ study: A qualitative sub-study conducted as part of the age 50 (2008) sweep of the National Child Development Study- CLS working paper 2010/3

30 July 2017

Attitudes Towards Pensions and Retirement at Age 50: Initial results from the National Child Development Study- CLS working paper 2010/2

30 July 2017

NCDS Cognitive Assessments at Age 50: Initial Results- CLS working paper 2010/1

29 July 2017

Education, First Occupation and Later Occupational Attainment: Cross-Cohort Changes among Men and Women in Britain- CLS working paper 2009/4

29 July 2017

Class Origins, Education and Occupational Attainment: Cross-cohort Changes among Men in Britain- CLS working paper 2009/3

28 July 2017

Trends in the relative wage opportunities of women and men across three British generations- CLS working paper 2009/2

28 July 2017

Cross-national research using contemporary birth cohort studies – a look at early maternal employment in the United Kingdom and the United States- CLS working paper 2008/13

28 July 2017

Educational attainment, labour market conditions and unobserved heterogeneity – the timing of first and higher-order births in Britain- CLS working paper 2008/12

28 July 2017

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