Stockholm Metropolitan Study (SMS)
The SMS aimed to investigate the role education played in social mobility, conformity and deviance, groups and associations and choice of partner, marriage and divorce. Participants were all children born in 1953 and still living in the Stockholm Metropolitan area, Sweden, in 1963. At baseline in 1966, over 13,000 participants were included in the study. Participants were followed up in person in 1968 and 1985, with registry data used to follow participants in the intervening years until 1986, when the study ended. SMS data was combined with the Swedish Work and Mortality Database 1980–2002 (WMD) in 2004 to create the Stockholm Birth Cohort Study (SBC). The Stockholm Birth Cohort Multigenerational Study (SBC Multigen) was created in 2018 by combining SMS data with RELINK53.
Study design
Cohort - birth
Number of participants at first data collection
13,476 (participants)
Age at first data collection
12 - 13 years (participants)
Participant year of birth
1953 (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
All children born in the Stockholm Metropolitan area in 1953.
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
1966
Primary Institutions
Stockholm University (Stockholms universitet)
Links
Profile paper DOI
Funders
Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation (Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubileumsfond)
Ongoing?
No
Data types collected
- Computer, paper or task testing (e.g. cognitive testing, theory of mind doll task, attention computer tasks)
- Interview – face-to-face
- Secondary data
- None
- None
- Census data
- Education data
- Healthcare data
- Mortality data
- Police & judicial system data
- Social care data
- Tax, income & benefit data
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups
