National Child Development Study (NCDS)
NCDS is a multidisciplinary national longitudinal birth cohort study following over 17,000 people born in the same week in 1958 in England, Scotland, and Wales. In the first three sweeps of the study (at ages 7, 11 and 16), the target sample was supplemented to include people who migrated to Britain and were born in the same week in 1958.
Study design
Cohort - birth, Cohort
Number of participants at first data collection
17,415 (participants)
Age at first data collection
Birth (participants)
Participant year of birth
1958 (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
UK population born in 1958.
Sample features
Countries
Year of first data collection
1958
Primary Institutions
Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS)
University College London (UCL)
Profile paper DOI
Funders
Department for Education (DfE)
Department for Education and Skills
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
Department of Education and Science (now known as Department for Education)
Department of Employment (now known as Department for Work and Pensions)
Ongoing?
Yes
Data types collected
- Activity log (e.g. food, sleep, exercise)
- Computer, paper or task testing (e.g. cognitive testing, theory of mind doll task, attention computer tasks)
- Interview – face-to-face
- Interview – online
- Interview – phone
- Physical or biological assessment (e.g. blood, saliva, gait, grip strength, anthropometry)
- Secondary data
- Self-report questionnaire – paper or computer assisted
- Interviews or focus groups
- Qualitative survey
- None
- Geographic, spatial & environmental data
- Healthcare data
- Mortality data
- Other government data
- Tax, income & benefit data
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups
