Kids’ Environment and Health Cohort (KEHC)
The Kids’ Environment and Health Cohort will be a research-ready, de-identified, national longitudinal birth cohort of approximately 11 million (10 million as of 2024) children born in England from 2006 to 2023, updated annually. The cohort will link vital statistics, census, health, education, and environmental data via unique property identifiers from longitudinal health service address records for children and their mothers during pregnancy.
Study design
Cohort, Cohort - primary caregiver and child, Registry
Number of participants at first data collection
10,000,000 (participants)
Age at first data collection
Varied (participants)
Participant year of birth
Varied (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
No
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
2006
Primary Institutions
Brock University
Department for Education (DfE)
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
National Health Service (NHS)
Profile paper DOI
Funders
Administrative Data Research UK (ADR UK)
Ongoing?
Yes
Data types collected
- Physical environment assessment (e.g. pollution, mould)
- Secondary data
- None
- None
- Census data
- Education data
- Geographic, spatial & environmental data
- Healthcare data
- Medical birth registry
- Mortality data
Engagement
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