Danish Conscription Database (DCD)
The DCD is a national cohort of 728,160 Danish male conscripts born from 1939 through 1959 and examined from 1957 through 1984. The cohort consists of all young men in Denmark aged over 18 years at first examination by the conscription board, except for men with medical conditions that made them unfit for military service. The collected conscript data can be linked to Danish national health and socioeconomic registers, enabling longitudinal follow-up of the cohort from early to late adulthood.
Study design
Registry, Cohort
Number of participants at first data collection
728,160 (participants)
Age at first data collection
≥ 18 years (participants)
Participant year of birth
1939 - 1959 (participants)
Participant sex
Male
Representative sample at baseline?
An almost full registration of all young Danish male conscripts born between 1939 and 1959.
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
1957
Primary Institutions
University of Copenhagen (Københavns Universitet, KU)
Profile paper DOI
Funders
Danish Medical Research Council
Jascha Foundation (Jascha Fonden)
Velux Foundation
Ongoing?
No
Data types collected
- Computer, paper or task testing (e.g. cognitive testing, theory of mind doll task, attention computer tasks)
- Secondary data
- None
- None
- Healthcare data
- Mortality data
- Other government data
- Tax, income & benefit data
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups
