Introduction to the British Birth Cohort Studies
Friday 8 October, 9..30 - 5.00
Room 2.016/17, Arthur Lewis Building, University of Manchester
The day will serve to introduce three of Britain's internationally renowned national longitudinal birth cohort studies:
• 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS)
• 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70)
• Millennium Cohort Study (MCS)
These studies follow groups of individuals who were born at one particular time throughout their lives and have involved multiple surveys, collecting information on education and employment, family and parenting, physical and mental health, and social attitudes. By comparing the different generations in the three cohorts, we can chart social change and start to untangle the reasons behind it.
Data from the studies are available for research purposes from the UK Data Archive and offer a unique opportunity to explore a wide variety of research questions. Their multipurpose nature makes it possible to use them to address research questions in the areas of, for example:
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Links between different life domains can also be investigated.
The cohort studies are managed by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) - an ESRC Resource Centre based at the Institute of Education, University of London (www.cls.ioe.ac.uk). During the day, CLS staff will provide:
• An introduction to the studies
• Summaries of exemplar analyses
• Q&A/advice session
Provisional Programme
| 09:30-10:00 | Registration and coffee |
| 10:00-10:30 | Introduction to the day and to the CLS Cohort Studies |
| 10:30-11:30 | Survey design, data coverage and methodology |
| 11:30-11:45 | Break |
| 11:45-12:15 | Accessing cohort study data and documentation |
| 12:15-13:00 | Samples, weights, non-response and attrition |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-14:45 | Data Dictionaries, linking data longitudinally and the CLS website |
| 14.45-15:45 | Summaries of exemplar analyses |
| 15:45-16:00 | Break |
| 16:00-17:00 | Q&A/advice session |