National Child Development Study
Initiatives
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By following 1958 generation throughout their lives, researchers are able to understand:
1. how our experiences as children affect how we turn out as adults;
2. how different areas of our lives, such as health, wealth, family, education and employment, are linked;
3. how these aspects of life vary for people from different walks of life.
Over the course of cohort members’ lives, we have collected information on their physical and educational development, economic circumstances, employment, family life, health behaviour, wellbeing, social participation and attitudes.
**General contact: [email protected]**
- Start Year
- 1958
- Funding
- Economic and Social Research Council
- Supplementary Information
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Child_Development_Study; https://www.neurodegenerationresearch.eu/cohort/1958-national-child-development-study-2/
Visit NCDS
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Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
- Follow Up
- Since the initial birth sweep, NCDS cohort members have been followed up ten times. The next sweep will take place in 2020 – 2021 when the cohort members will be in their early sixties.Follow-up surveys at 7, 11, 16, 20, 23, 33, 42, 44, 46, 50, 55 and 62.
- Supplementary Information
- https://www.closer.ac.uk/study/1958-national-child-development-study/
Marker Paper
Power C, Elliott J. Cohort profile: 1958 British birth cohort (National Child Development Study). Int J Epidemiol. 2006 Feb;35(1):34-41. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyi183. Epub 2005 Sep 9.
PUBMED 16155052
Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Individuals
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 17,634
- Number of participants with biosamples
- Supplementary Information
- People born in England, Scotland and Wales in a single week
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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Availability of access information
On the study website : https://cls.ucl.ac.uk/cls-studies/1958-national...