China Maternal and Child Cohort Study (CMCC)
The CMCC is a cohort of pregnant women and their subsequent offspring, and investigates early childhood development, environment and eugenics, perinatal health, maternal and child nutrition and health, and maternal and child policies and systems. Five provinces in the five major regions of China (the four corners and one center) were selected for the project and in each province four samples (2 urban areas, 2 rural areas) of health care institutions were chosen, with a total of 20 health care institutions as the project samples. When a pregnant woman takes the pregnancy examination for the first time in these selected medical institutions, her information would be collected in the platform for the current research.
Study design
Cohort - primary caregiver and child, Cohort - birth
Number of participants at first data collection
100,000 (mother-child pairs)
Age at first data collection
Varied (mothers)
0 - 6 years (children)
Participant year of birth
Varied (mothers)
Varied (children)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
No
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
2015
Primary Institutions
Peking University (北京大学, PKU)
Profile paper DOI
Not available
Funders
Beingmate Health and Development of Women and Children Research Fund
Ongoing?
Yes
Data types collected
- Secondary data
- None
- None
- Healthcare data
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups
