Stockholm Birth Cohort Study (SBC)
The SBC was established by a probability matching of two longitudinal datasets: the Stockholm Metropolitan Study (SMS) and the Swedish Work and Mortality Database (WMD). The SMS dataset contains information on all individuals who were born in 1953 and lived in the greater metropolitan area of Stockholm, Sweden in 1963. Register and survey follow-ups were carried out up until 1986. The WMD dataset consists of all individuals who were born before 1985 and lived in Sweden in 1980 and/or 1990. The WMD includes information on income, work, education, family formation, in-patient care, and mortality for the period of 1981 to 2009. The probability matching rendered it possible for researchers to follow 14,294 members of the SMS cohort from birth (1953) to the age of 56 (2009).
Study design
Cohort - birth
Number of participants at first data collection
14,294 (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)
2004 (study inception)
Primary Institutions
Swedish Institute for Social Research (Institutet för social forskning, SOFI)
Profile paper DOI
Funders
Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation (Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubileumsfond)
Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet)
Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (Forskningsrådet för arbetsliv, hälsa och välfärd, FORTE)
Ongoing?
No
Data types collected
- Secondary data
- Self-report questionnaire – unspecified
- None
- None
- Census data
- Education data
- Employer data
- Healthcare data
- Mortality data
- Tax, income & benefit data
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups
