New South Wales Child Development Study (NSW-CDS)
The NSW-CDS cohort was established with over 87,000 children who were assessed with the Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) when they started school in 2009, aged 5-6 years. The AEDC records were then linked to medical records, education records, and other administrative data in 2013. In 2016, almost 30,000 more children aged 11-12 years, were linked through the Middle Childhood Survey (MCS), bringing the total child cohort to over 91,500 children. 48% of the cohort are female and 82% of the child cohort have linked parental data.
Study design
Registry, Cohort
Number of participants at first data collection
87,026 (children)
75,784 (parents)
Recruitment is ongoing
Age at first data collection
Birth (children, linked records)
5 years (children, AEDC)
Varied (parents)
Participant year of birth
2002 - 2004 (children)
Varied (parents)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
Australian children and young people in the most populous state of NSW.
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
1994 (linked records)
2013 (linkage conducted)
2009 (AEDC)
Primary Institutions
University of New South Wales (UNSW) (Academic, Australia)
Profile paper DOI
Funders
Australian Institute of Criminology (Government, Australia)
Australian Research Council (ARC) (Research council, Australia)
Australian Rotary Health (ARH) (Third Sector, Australia)
Commonwealth Government (Government, Australia)
Lowitja Institute (Third Sector, Australia)
Ongoing?
Yes
Data types collected
- Secondary data
- Self-completed questionnaire – paper or computer assisted
- None
- None
- Census data
- Healthcare data
- Police & judicial system data
- Social care data
- Tax, income & benefit data
Engagement
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