SBC Multigen was established in 2018/2019, as a result of a probability matching between the Stockholm Metropolitan Study (SMS) and Reproduction of Inequality Through Linked Lives (RELINK). The Stockholm Birth Cohort Study (SBC) was first created in 2004/2005 by a probability matching of the Stockholm Metropolitan Study (SMS; 1953–1985) and The Swedish Work and Mortality Database (WMD; 1980–2009). To enable an extended follow-up of the SMS, the WMD was replaced by a new de-identified data material called RELINK53, which is defined as all individuals born in 1953 and living in Sweden in 1960, 1965, and/or 1968, and their family members. This turned the SBC into a multigenerational data material which is now referred to as the Stockholm Birth Cohort Multigenerational Study (SBC Multigen). SBC Multigen's data material contains information from 14,608 cohort members (as well as their parents, siblings, friends, spouses, and children).
Study design
Cohort - birth, Cohort - intergenerational
Number of participants at first data collection
14,608 (participants)
Age at first data collection
Birth (participants)
Participant year of birth
1953 (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
No
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
1953 (birth records)
2018 (study inception)
Primary Institutions
Swedish Institute for Social Research (Institutet för social forskning, SOFI)
Links
su.se/stockholm-birth-cohort-multigenerational-study/
su.se/stockholm-birth-cohort-multigenerational-study/about-the-study
Profile paper DOI
Funders
Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (Forskningsrådet för arbetsliv, hälsa och välfärd, FORTE)
Ongoing?
Yes
Data types collected
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups