The Millennium Cohort Study Sweep 6 (Age 14) Survey
Lead Research Organisation:
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
Department Name: Social Science
Abstract
The Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) is a unique, multidisciplinary research resource. Following the lives of over 19,000 children born across the UK around the turn of the millennium, it builds on the UK's rich, and unequalled, array of cohort studies. With collection of information at ages 9 months, 3, 5, 7 and 11 years, it enables analysis of change in children's lives and of the processes that influence them as they grow up.
The MCS has provided a resource for research across a wide range of disciplines and subject areas. It has used a variety of data collection methods and instruments, as well as data linkage to enable research and policy agendas in areas ranging from obesity to school choice; from the emergence of socio-economic differences in cognitive functioning to ethnic differences in breast-feeding; from the impacts of maternal employment to father's involvement in children's activities; from home learning environment to physical activity; from patterns of behavioural difficulties to changes in family structure over the early years.
MCS has already shown clear policy impacts; and it has influenced the design and development of birth cohort studies in other countries, including New Zealand, Ireland and France, as well as the new British birth cohort study. It is widely used not only in UK-based research, but internationally. The reputation and significance of the MCS is well-established and is set to increase in coming years.
The current proposal is for a further survey of the MCS cohort at age 14 as a critical point in young people's lives, both in terms of their development and education. In doing this it builds on the accumulation of information collected at key developmental stages of the cohort members. It is important scientifically because it is a time when people are in-between childhood and adulthood, when many trajectories are still possible, but many will also be heavily influenced by the choices and behaviours they engage in at this age. It is a time when we can see the outcome of early childhood indicators; while, looking forward, age 14 will constitute a point at which teenage paths can diverge through disengagement and different educational aspirations and choices. The measures we capture at age 14 will be significant for addressing the relation to later life outcomes and enabling understanding of change over time through cross-cohort comparisons. The age 14 sweep is also important in data collection terms, since it may be the last sweep at which the cohort members are surveyed at their parental home. At the same time, it is an age when direct engagement of the respondents themselves, distinct from their families, is crucial to the long-term viability of the study.
Like earlier sweeps, the age 14 sweep plans to combine continuity with previous sweeps, comparability with other surveys, and innovation in its selection of measures. It will do this through a variety of data collection instruments comprising interviews and self-completion with both parents; interview and self-completion with the cohort member; measures of height, weight and body fat; direct assessments of cognitive functioning; teacher perspectives on the cohort child and the school context; a time diary to record the child's daily activities; and collection of consent to enable the survey data to be complemented and amplified through administrative data linkage.
Through careful development; rigorous data collection; high quality data deposit; comprehensive dissemination, capacity building and user engagement, MCS6 will provide enormous scientific and policy relevant potential and will consolidate the study's national and international reach and reputation.
The MCS has provided a resource for research across a wide range of disciplines and subject areas. It has used a variety of data collection methods and instruments, as well as data linkage to enable research and policy agendas in areas ranging from obesity to school choice; from the emergence of socio-economic differences in cognitive functioning to ethnic differences in breast-feeding; from the impacts of maternal employment to father's involvement in children's activities; from home learning environment to physical activity; from patterns of behavioural difficulties to changes in family structure over the early years.
MCS has already shown clear policy impacts; and it has influenced the design and development of birth cohort studies in other countries, including New Zealand, Ireland and France, as well as the new British birth cohort study. It is widely used not only in UK-based research, but internationally. The reputation and significance of the MCS is well-established and is set to increase in coming years.
The current proposal is for a further survey of the MCS cohort at age 14 as a critical point in young people's lives, both in terms of their development and education. In doing this it builds on the accumulation of information collected at key developmental stages of the cohort members. It is important scientifically because it is a time when people are in-between childhood and adulthood, when many trajectories are still possible, but many will also be heavily influenced by the choices and behaviours they engage in at this age. It is a time when we can see the outcome of early childhood indicators; while, looking forward, age 14 will constitute a point at which teenage paths can diverge through disengagement and different educational aspirations and choices. The measures we capture at age 14 will be significant for addressing the relation to later life outcomes and enabling understanding of change over time through cross-cohort comparisons. The age 14 sweep is also important in data collection terms, since it may be the last sweep at which the cohort members are surveyed at their parental home. At the same time, it is an age when direct engagement of the respondents themselves, distinct from their families, is crucial to the long-term viability of the study.
Like earlier sweeps, the age 14 sweep plans to combine continuity with previous sweeps, comparability with other surveys, and innovation in its selection of measures. It will do this through a variety of data collection instruments comprising interviews and self-completion with both parents; interview and self-completion with the cohort member; measures of height, weight and body fat; direct assessments of cognitive functioning; teacher perspectives on the cohort child and the school context; a time diary to record the child's daily activities; and collection of consent to enable the survey data to be complemented and amplified through administrative data linkage.
Through careful development; rigorous data collection; high quality data deposit; comprehensive dissemination, capacity building and user engagement, MCS6 will provide enormous scientific and policy relevant potential and will consolidate the study's national and international reach and reputation.
Planned Impact
The Millennium Cohort Study is a multi-disciplinary survey covering a wide range of topics. The breadth of coverage and the depth of information from six sweeps of data covering UK children's lives up to age 14 make it of interest to a wide range of beneficiaries.
Academics from numerous disciplines, including child health, psychology, economics, epidemiology, human geography, sociology, social policy and social statistics will benefit from clean, high quality and well documented longitudinal data, covering issues of salience throughout childhood and in the teenage years. Supplementary data sets incorporating geographical identifiers or linked administrative data will increase their benefit. MCS6 will be of interest not only to UK but also international scholars, whether for comparative studies with, for example Fragile Families or the NLSY, or in its own right as a unique source for understanding children's development trajectories.
Students will also benefit from the availability of high quality and wide ranging data. They will also be able to draw on the associated training and capacity building activities and the user support linked to the study.
Those developing cohort studies whether from birth (such as the new UK Birth Cohort Study) or in the teen years (such as Tokyo Teen study) will benefit from examplars with which to harmonise as well as being able to draw on the longitudinal expertise linked to the study and gain advice on sampling, instrument development, tracing, participant engagement and ethics.
Methodologists will be able to utilise the data to explore issues such as attrition, non-response and consent in a longitudinal context. For example, by age 14 the number of sweeps, and the changes in inter-sweep periods, facilitates complex modeling of patterns of participation. Survey methodologists and survey practitioners will also benefit indirectly from the methodological research associated with the age 14 sweep such as experimentation on responses to well-being questions a field experiment relating to maximising response, and the dissemination of this research to academic and practitioner audiences
Policy makers will largely benefit indirectly through research findings that are relevant to their areas of interest. The coverage of the age 14 survey both on its own and as a culmination of six sweeps of data collection will be of interest to policy officers and analysts across Whitehall as well as in the devolved administrations. The MCS will provide them with a unique understanding of how children are growing up in the UK today, their different starting points, outcomes and trajectories across a range of highly relevant areas including health, education, family context and change, attitudes, aspirations, sporting and cultural participation, friendship and victimisation, and risk behaviours and attitudes. Policy makers can also benefit directly through analysts' access to the data, and through provision of bespoke data sets to ease use of the complex data for specific purposes.
The MCS is of great interest to a number of voluntary sector organisations, particularly those concerned with parenting and child welfare. It provides an invaluable resource for research connected to their key interests, whether in shared care, maternal depression, 'good parenting', child poverty; disabled children or educational development. The age 14 sweep will increase the interest of MCS to these research consumers. Again, for those with analytical capacity the data can be used directly to explore key concerns; and collaborations with data analysts are also possible, through, for example the ESRC secondary analysis scheme.
Finally, the age 14 sweep will be of indirect benefit to children and families themselves as research on the study identifies what factors in family context and behaviours make a difference to child outcomes, and points to ways in which they can be supported and their experiences enhanced in the future.
Academics from numerous disciplines, including child health, psychology, economics, epidemiology, human geography, sociology, social policy and social statistics will benefit from clean, high quality and well documented longitudinal data, covering issues of salience throughout childhood and in the teenage years. Supplementary data sets incorporating geographical identifiers or linked administrative data will increase their benefit. MCS6 will be of interest not only to UK but also international scholars, whether for comparative studies with, for example Fragile Families or the NLSY, or in its own right as a unique source for understanding children's development trajectories.
Students will also benefit from the availability of high quality and wide ranging data. They will also be able to draw on the associated training and capacity building activities and the user support linked to the study.
Those developing cohort studies whether from birth (such as the new UK Birth Cohort Study) or in the teen years (such as Tokyo Teen study) will benefit from examplars with which to harmonise as well as being able to draw on the longitudinal expertise linked to the study and gain advice on sampling, instrument development, tracing, participant engagement and ethics.
Methodologists will be able to utilise the data to explore issues such as attrition, non-response and consent in a longitudinal context. For example, by age 14 the number of sweeps, and the changes in inter-sweep periods, facilitates complex modeling of patterns of participation. Survey methodologists and survey practitioners will also benefit indirectly from the methodological research associated with the age 14 sweep such as experimentation on responses to well-being questions a field experiment relating to maximising response, and the dissemination of this research to academic and practitioner audiences
Policy makers will largely benefit indirectly through research findings that are relevant to their areas of interest. The coverage of the age 14 survey both on its own and as a culmination of six sweeps of data collection will be of interest to policy officers and analysts across Whitehall as well as in the devolved administrations. The MCS will provide them with a unique understanding of how children are growing up in the UK today, their different starting points, outcomes and trajectories across a range of highly relevant areas including health, education, family context and change, attitudes, aspirations, sporting and cultural participation, friendship and victimisation, and risk behaviours and attitudes. Policy makers can also benefit directly through analysts' access to the data, and through provision of bespoke data sets to ease use of the complex data for specific purposes.
The MCS is of great interest to a number of voluntary sector organisations, particularly those concerned with parenting and child welfare. It provides an invaluable resource for research connected to their key interests, whether in shared care, maternal depression, 'good parenting', child poverty; disabled children or educational development. The age 14 sweep will increase the interest of MCS to these research consumers. Again, for those with analytical capacity the data can be used directly to explore key concerns; and collaborations with data analysts are also possible, through, for example the ESRC secondary analysis scheme.
Finally, the age 14 sweep will be of indirect benefit to children and families themselves as research on the study identifies what factors in family context and behaviours make a difference to child outcomes, and points to ways in which they can be supported and their experiences enhanced in the future.
Organisations
- UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON (Lead Research Organisation)
- Action for Children (Collaboration)
- Cohort & Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources (Collaboration)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- Australian Bureau of Statistics (Collaboration)
- Save the Children (Collaboration)
- University of Bristol (Collaboration)
- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (Collaboration)
- Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research (Collaboration)
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Collaboration)
- National Children's Bureau (Collaboration)
- Netherlands eScience Center (Collaboration)
- Growing Up in Australia (Collaboration)
Publications

Booth C
(2021)
PARENTAL PERCEPTIONS OF LEARNING LOSS DURING COVID-19 SCHOOL CLOSURES IN 2020
in British Journal of Educational Studies

Calderwood, L
(2020)
Developments in fieldwork procedures and monitoring in longitudinal surveys: case prioritisation and electronic contact sheets on the UK Millennium Cohort Study
in Survey Methods: Insights from the Field

Calderwood, L.
(2015)
Securing participation and getting accurate answers from teenage children in surveys: lessons from the UK Millennium Cohort Study
in Social Research Practice

Chatzitheochari S
(2018)
Using New Technologies for Time Diary Data Collection: Instrument Design and Data Quality Findings from a Mixed-Mode Pilot Survey.
in Social indicators research

Chatzitheochari S
(2016)
Doubly Disadvantaged? Bullying Experiences among Disabled Children and Young People in England.
in Sociology

Chatzitheochari, S
(2015)
Measuring young people's time-use in the UK Millennium Cohort Study: A mixed-mode time diary approach

Collings PJ
(2022)
Independent associations of sleep timing, duration and quality with adiposity and weight status in a national sample of adolescents: The UK Millennium Cohort Study.
in Journal of sleep research

David Bann
(2020)
Determinants of the population health distribution: an illustration examining body mass index
in International Journal of Epidemiology

Fisher, K
(2015)
A mixed-mode approach to measuring young peoples time use in the UK Millennium cohort study.
in Electronic International Journal of Time Use Research
Description | We have successfully collected unprecedentedly rich data on 11,726 families at the sixth sweep of the Millennium Cohort Study, representing a response rate of 76%. The Age 14 sweep was the most extensive and ambitious sweep of the study to date. It was a household-based survey that collected information from parents, as well as from the cohort members themselves. It combined both interviewer-administered and self-completion instruments that built on best practice and technological developments, as well as direct measurements of young people's physical growth, and assessments of both young people and, for the first time, their parents' cognitive ability. It also collected saliva samples for DNA extraction from both cohort members and resident biological parents, and cohort members wore an activity monitor and completed a time use record over two 24-hour periods. The data have been deposited at the UKDS (end March 2017), thereby fulfilling a core objective of the study, and we are aware that much research is now being taken forward by a multi-disciplinary array of researchers. Initial analysis of the data by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, as part of a set of 'Initial Findings' from the age 14 sweep, had a number of key findings: mental health increases sharply amongst teenage girls between ages 11 and 14, but much less so for teenage boys; rates of excess weight have stabilised between ages 11 and 14, albeit at high levels; substance use, specifically drinking alcohol and smoking, shows a notable rise at age 14; university and occupation aspirations show strong gender differences at age 11. |
Exploitation Route | The majority of data collected as part of the age 14 sweep of the MCS have been deposited at UKDS. Imminent data deposits include accelerometry data and time use data. Additionally, genotype data will be available for analysis from Autumn 2018, via an appropriate mechanism. Age 14 is a key point in young people's developmental and educational lives, a time when people are in-between childhood and adulthood, when many trajectories are still possible, but many will also be heavily influenced by the choices and behaviours they engage in at this age. The age 14 data can: a) Reveal the circumstances, beliefs and behaviours of contemporary youth at this 'in-between' stage b) Provide measures of outcomes (in terms of e.g. health, learning and development) of processes and experiences that have accumulated across childhood c) Capture predictors that may be significant in later life outcomes, such as risk taking, aspirations, engagement with school, health and disability, as well as parental characteristics. I anticipate that the data will be of enormous value to a wide range of multi-disciplinary users, and expect it to be used in several areas of research, including but by no means limited to those noted above. The ability to answer detailed questions such as these will be greatly enhanced by the availability of detailed time use data and accelerometry data, each covering the same two 24-hour periods. The genotype data adds a major new dimension to the data: a crucial area for research is how genes and environments operate together to produce the inequalities we observe across the lifecourse. With rich phenotypic data, alongside the largest collection of genetic samples from mother/child/father with detailed phenotypic measurements in the world, we expect this incredibly rich resource to be widely is used by researchers working at the interface between biomedical and social science. |
Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy Education Environment Healthcare Leisure Activities including Sports Recreation and Tourism Government Democracy and Justice Culture Heritage Museums and Collections Transport Other |
URL | http://www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/page.aspx?&sitesectionid=1109&sitesectiontitle=The+age+14+survey+of+MCS+%282015%29 |
Description | The age 14 survey of the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) has been the most ambitious survey to date, and has resulted in strong and widespread impact. I led a programme of initial research from the age 14 survey - showcasing findings on areas of intense public and policy interest including mental health, obesity, and risky behaviours. This included dissemination of the research findings through a series of six briefings and press releases. This series of research papers, briefings, and press releases on 'Initial Findings' gained widespread coverage for the study over an 8-week period during late 2017 and early 2018, in a multitude of high profile national media outlets alongside interviews by the PI (Fitzsimons) on BBC Radio 4 Women's Hour and You and Yours, and on BBC Breakfast. The campaign was summed up by the UCL Head of Media Relations on several occasions as 'brilliant'. The findings had a major impact on visits to the CLS website, with two of them amongst the top 3 most highly accessed days in the past year: the day that the "One in four girls is depressed at age 14" press release was released attracted 3,636 page views - the highest number of page views in the last 12 months, and over 5 times higher than the page views for the equivalent day in the week before. The day of the "One in five young people obese at age 14" press release attracted 2,074 page views, almost double the page views of the equivalent day of the previous week. The findings also had a strong presence on social media, with our press release on "Teenage reading and vocabulary" the top tweet in the entire education sector in November 2017 (source: Edurank), generating 345 visits to the IoE website and seen on Twitter 81,261 times, as of December 2017. New research on the causal impacts of breastfeeding on children's development (by the Principal Investigator) has been published, in one of the first causal studies of its kind on this important area. It has been referred to by the Freakonomics podcast (Oct. 2022) as 'Can a clever new study shed light on one of parenting's most elusive and contentious questions?'. Evidence from this major study on the cognitive benefits of breastfeeding helped directly make the case for a £50 million programme of breastfeeding support led by the Department for Health and Social Care (email exchange with DHSC, Dec. 2022). Action for Children commissioned new analysis of the Millennium Cohort Study by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (Principal Investigator of MCS), which found that children whose parents reported experiencing domestic violence when the children were aged 3 reported 30 per cent higher than average antisocial behaviours in adolescence, at age 14. Directly on the basis of this evidence, the Crown Prosecution Service issued new Domestic Abuse guidelines at the end of 2022 which states that children affected by domestic abuse will be automatically treated as victims regardless of whether they were present during violent incidents. The inclusion of children as victims is a major breakthrough that is a direct impact of this research. I further anticipate the MCS6 data will result in significantly increased impact as times goes on. I predict major areas of research will, amongst others, include understanding the pathways to early risky behaviours, the important transition from primary to secondary school and how it affects aspects of life including relationships, socio-emotional and cognitive development; mental health and wellbeing in mid-adolescence; physical development and, in particular, trends in overweight and obesity. Over the coming few years, and as a result of some of the more novel content of the MCS6 sweep, I anticipate particularly significant impacts in the following areas: -Inclusion of genes in social science models: A crucial area for research is how genes and environments operate together to produce the inequalities we observe across the lifecourse. DNA samples from cohort members and parents arise from the age 14 sweep of the study. There are just over 20,000 samples in total, including approximately 4,600 mother-child-father trios. The genotyping of these samples in 2017/18 has created the largest collection of genetic samples from mother/child/father with detailed phenotypic measurements in the world, ensuring the MCS will be uniquely placed to enable research into the interplay of genetic and environmental factors in the development of inequalities across the life course. Researchers have already started to access these novel data via the CLS Data Access Committee. - Physical activity and sedentary behaviour in adolescence: There is a great deal of interest in understanding patterns of physical activity, including sedentary behaviour, and how these relate to young people's growth patterns, including rising trends in overweight, and to other aspects of their wellbeing and long-term outcomes. The availability of objective measures at age 14, through accelerometers, is a marked advance over more limited self-report measures. Alongside the accelerometry data collected at the age 7 sweep of the study, it will provide a comprehensive insight into patterns of moderate and intense activity, and sedentary behaviour, facilitating a rich understanding of the effects of health lifestyles on different domains of life. - Understanding time use: the concurrently collected measures of time use over two 24-hour periods is a major innovation and will allow for detailed insights into adolescents' daily lives, alongside generating measure of adolescent time use for the study of later life outcomes as cohort matures (e.g. physical activities, sleep, eating patterns, cultural participation, time spent doing homework etc.). It will also facilitate cross-cultural comparisons of adolescent time use, for instance with the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, Growing Up in Ireland, which have also been collecting time diaries. Recent Impact (2023): The MCS Age 14 data has informed thinking and debate in UK Government and Parliament on a range of issues, including youth violence, screen time, preventative health and social care, persistent absence, and vaping. For example, the UK Home Office has used MCS age 14 data extensively to look at weapons carrying, and that evidence has in turn fed into work of other departments, such at the UK Department for Education's serious youth violence research programme. In 2023 alone, evidence from MCS at age 14 also fed into multiple parliamentary inquiries, including for example the House of Commons Education Select Committee's inquiry into persistent absence and support for disadvantaged pupils, the HoC Health and Social Care Select Committee's inquiries into prevention in health and social care, and youth vaping. Think tanks have made regular use of MCS age 14 data and evidence to advance understanding of issues including young people's mental health, social media use, and poverty. For example, in 2023 alone MCS evidence was cited in reports from the Wales Centre for Public Policy (a part of the UK What Works network), Centre for Economic Policy Research, Education Policy Institute, and Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The topics covered ranged from risk factors for loneliness among 14-year-olds, to the links between reading for pleasure and healthy behaviours, to the relationship between child poverty and adolescent mental and physical health. The sweep's influence has also extended beyond UK borders. In 2023 alone, MCS evidence has been cited in reports from the French Ministry of Health and Solidarity, Italian Ministry of Health, Swedish Research Council (a Swedish Government agency), EU Parliament, the US Surgeon General, the World Health Organisation, and the United Nations. |
First Year Of Impact | 2018 |
Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Education,Healthcare,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Government, Democracy and Justice,Other |
Impact Types | Cultural Societal Economic Policy & public services |
Description | Member of advisory board to ALSPAC: Emla Fitzsimons |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Description | NHS website story - Many teenagers reporting symptoms of depression |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
Impact | The MCS6 Initial Finding 'Mental health among children of the new century' (Patalay & Fitzsimons, 2017) highlighted the extent of mental illness amongst adolescents in the UK today. The NHS summarised the findings and implications of this study on the 'Behind the headlines' section of its website, drawing attention to the study and the findings and increasing awareness across practitioners and the public. |
URL | https://www.nhs.uk/news/mental-health/many-teenagers-reporting-symptoms-depression/ |
Description | Advancing adolescent mental health and wellbeing research |
Amount | £755,438 (GBP) |
Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 04/2023 |
End | 05/2026 |
Description | ERSC - Genotyping DNA Samples |
Amount | £1,057,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2017 |
End | 03/2018 |
Description | ESRC Strategic Investments - International Networking Competition |
Amount | £25,821 (GBP) |
Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2018 |
End | 12/2019 |
Description | Full exome sequencing of Millennium Cohort Study cohort members (approx N =9500) |
Amount | £500,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 06/2021 |
Description | Home Office - Invitation |
Amount | £49,717 (GBP) |
Organisation | Home Office |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2020 |
End | 03/2021 |
Description | Poverty, place and children's personal and social relationships |
Amount | £3,009 (GBP) |
Organisation | Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2015 |
End | 08/2015 |
Description | Save the Children |
Amount | £30,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Save the Children |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United States |
Start | 02/2015 |
End | 12/2015 |
Description | Using health record linkage in the UK Millennium Cohort Study to investigate childhood obesity, asthma and infections |
Amount | £39,144 (GBP) |
Funding ID | 087389/B/08/Z |
Organisation | Wellcome Trust |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2015 |
End | 03/2017 |
Title | CLS DAC: bespoke data sharing of survey research data from NCDS, BCS70, Next Steps and MCS not available in public repositories |
Description | The CLS Data Access Committee (CLS DAC) provides bespoke access to CLS cohort study not available in public repositories: 1) existing research data of highly sensitive and/or disclosive nature; 2) research data that have not been prepared sufficiently for deposit; 3) Paradata (i.e. data about the data collection process), created primarily for administrative purposes and not routinely released for research use. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet |
URL | https://cls.ucl.ac.uk/data-access-training/data-access/accessing-data-directly-from-cls/ |
Title | CLS GENDAC: bespoke data sharing of NCDS, BCS70 and MCS genetics data and biological samples |
Description | The CLS GENDAC (Genetics Access Committee) refers to the public sharing of NCDS, BCS70 and MCS genetics and biological samples. This is managed by the CLS Data Access Committee, and provides bespoke access to: 1) NCDS genetic data linked to survey data; 2) MCS genetics data; 3) NCDS, BCS70 and MCS biological samples. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet |
URL | https://cls.ucl.ac.uk/data-access-training/genetic-data-and-biological-samples/ |
Title | MCS - Harmonised Height, Weight and BMI |
Description | MCS- Harmonised Height, Weight and BMI in Five Longitudinal Cohort Studies: CLOSER Work Package 1. Harmonisation of anthropometric measures between the National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD), National Child Development Study (NCDS), 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70), Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), and the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS). |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet |
URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8550 |
Title | MCS - Harmonised Socio-Economic Measures |
Description | MCS - Socio-Economic Measures in Four Longitudinal Cohort Studies: CLOSER Work Package 2. Harmonisation of socio-economic measures between the National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD), National Child Development Study (NCDS), 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70), and the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS). |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet. |
URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8306 |
Title | MCS - Linked Education Data (National Pupil Database), England |
Description | Millennium Cohort Study: Linked Education Administrative Datasets (National Pupil Database), England: Secure Access These datasets include data files from the Department for Education's National Pupil Database and the Pupil Level Annual School Census for those cohort members attending a school in England at the time of interview. The following linked NPD data are available: - Pupil level school census data from N1 (first year nursery 2003/2004) to year 11 (2016/17); - KS1, KS2 and KS4 results data for years 2, 6 and 11 respectively; - Absence data from year 1 to year 11; - Also included are derived school-level datasets providing information about school characteristics and school changes: - School characteristics data from N1 to year 11 - School change information from N1 to year 11 Datasets include anonymised School identifiers (URN) and anonymised Local Education Authorities (LEA) to allow comparison of results across LEA and school. The data were obtained only for children whose parents/carers gave consent to data linkage, and who were successfully matched. This study only includes data for MCS cohort members attending schools in England. Data for Scotland and Wales are available separately |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet |
URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8481 |
Title | MCS 1-6: Banded Distances of Home Moves between Sweeps (NEW) |
Description | Millennium Cohort Study, Sweeps 1-6, 2001-2015: Banded Distances of Home Moves between Sweeps. This data provides banded straight-line distances between each sweep of the MCS. Distances were calculated using the co-ordinates (eastings/northings of the British National Grid) of the unit postcode centroid of the address at interview, using the Pythagorean Theorem. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet. |
URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8819 |
Title | MCS 1-6: Green Space Deciles (NEW) |
Description | Millennium Cohort Study, Sweeps 1-6, 2001-2015: Linked to Green Space Deciles at LSOA (England) and Ward Level (UK). This project links MCS sweeps 1-6 to green space data, at LSOA level (England) and ward level (UK). The LSOA green space data is based on the 2001 Generalised Land Use Database (GLUD) and the UK ward-level green space data is based on 2000 Coordination of Information on the Environment (CORINE, EEA: 2000) data; values are provided as deciles. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet |
URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8154 |
Title | MCS 3-6: Banded Distances between Home and School (NEW) |
Description | Millennium Cohort Study, Sweeps 3-6, 2006-2015: Banded Distances between Home and School. This data study provides banded straight-line distances between the address at interview and the school attended by each cohort member for MCS3-MCS6 inclusive. Distances were calculated using the co-ordinates (eastings/northings of the British National Grid) of the unit postcode centroid of the address at interview and the unit postcode of the school attended, using the Pythagorean Theorem. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet |
URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8821 |
Title | MCS 4-6: Linked Points of Interest (NEW) |
Description | Millennium Cohort Study: Linkage with the Point of Interest Data. MCS4, MCS5 and MCS6 data were linked to the Points of Interest (PoI) data to characterise the physical environment around cohort member residences at the moment of the interview. GIS methods were used together with the Ordnance Survey Integrated Transport Network (ITN) data to create buffers around cohort member's residences. Counts of points of interest, e.g., supermarkets, convenience stores, and others, were created within 400, 800 and 1,600 metres buffers. The categories defined by the PoI data were used to aggregate information, and new categories were derived for specific food outlets. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet. |
URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8824 |
Title | MCS Cross-Sweep Harmonised Data, 1st Edition |
Description | The MCS Cross-Sweep Harmonised Data includes the harmonised data on height, weight and BMI (CLOSER Work Package 1) and the standardised Registrar General's Social Class - 1990 version (CLOSER Work Package 2) for the Millennium Cohort Study, and provides the original study identifier in order to allow the harmonised variables to be linked back to the individual study datasets |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet |
URL | https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=8340&type=Data%20catalogue |
Title | MCS DNA and genotyped databank |
Description | Saliva samples were collected from cohort members and biological parents at MCS6. The DNA has now been extracted from the samples, at the University of Bristol. The DNA samples have been genotyped, and imputations of the data should be complete by Autumn 2018. The plan is to make linked genotype/phenotype data available for researchers via the META-DAC. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | A crucial area for research is how genes and environments operate together to produce the inequalities we observe across the lifecourse. With rich phenotypic data, alongside the largest collection of genetic samples from mother/child/father with detailed phenotypic measurements in the world, we expect this incredibly rich resource to be widely is used by researchers working at the interface between biomedical and social science. More specifically, the availability of genomewide genetic data in the MCS puts the study in a unique position to enable: (i) Discovery genomewide association study analyses based on study focus traits, trajectories and familial phenotypes. (ii) Study of how genetic and environmental factors shape human development across the life course through exporting the product of (i) in: a. Use of novel genetic predictors of early life factors measured well in the MCS in multi-study analyses of causal effect b. Undertaking epidemiological and social science analyses using genetics as a lever for causality (Mendelian randomisation) within the MCS, including intergenerational causal analyses using family based genetic data. |
Title | MCS Longitudinal Family File - 2nd edition |
Description | Millennium Cohort Study: Longitudinal Family File, 2001-2015 |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet. |
URL | https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=8172&type=Data%20catalogue |
Title | MCS NHS Patient Episode Data (Wales) - 1st edition |
Description | Millennium Cohort Study: NHS Patient Episode Database for Wales, Linked Administrative Datasets: ICD-10 Codes in Continuous Spells, 2001-2012: Secure Access |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet. |
URL | https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=8302&type=Data%20catalogue |
Title | MCS Ofsted Linked Data - 1st edition |
Description | Millennium Cohort Study: Ofsted Linked Data, 2006-2012: Secure Access |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet. |
URL | https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=8226&type=Data%20catalogue |
Title | MCS Ofsted and Teacher Survey - 1st edition |
Description | Millennium Cohort Study: Ofsted and Teacher Survey Linked Data, 2008: Secure Access |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet. |
URL | https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=8227&type=Data%20catalogue |
Title | MCS Sweep 1 update (14th Edition) |
Description | Millennium Cohort Study: Age 9 months, Sweep 1, 2001. For the fourteenth edition (January 2022), a new data file mcs1_family_interview has been added due to the family level data being split out from the parent-level data to make future merging with MCS8 onwards easier. Two data files (mcs1_parent_interview and mcs1_parent_cm_interview) have been updated to include variables that were missed from the previous edition due to a technical error. In addition, mcs1_hhgrid has had some data edits applied. Also changes have been to the mcs1_parent_interview datasets. Some variables have been renamed due to duplicates. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet. |
URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=4683 |
Title | MCS Sweep 2 update (11th Edition) |
Description | Millennium Cohort Study: Age 3, Sweep 2, 2004. A new data file mcs2_family_interview has been added due to the family level data being split out from the parent-level data to make future merging with MCS8 onwards easier. Two data files (mcs2_parent_interview and mcs2_parent_cm_interview) have been updated to include variables that were missed from the previous edition due to a technical error. In addition, mcs2_hhgrid has had some data edits applied. Some family level data has been removed from mcs2_family_interview as it related to one family who were interviewed on the incorrect serial number at this sweep. Total number of cases has changed in mcs2_hhgrid due to data updates. For sample size please check the longitudinal family file. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet |
URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=5350 |
Title | MCS Sweep 3 update (9th Edition) |
Description | Millennium Cohort Study: Age 5, Sweep 3, 2006. For the ninth edition (January 2022), a new data file mcs3_family_interview has been added due to the family level data being split out from the parent-level data to make future merging with MCS8 onwards easier. Two data files (mcs3_parent_interview and mcs3_parent_cm_interview) have been updated to include variables that were missed from the previous edition due to a technical error. In addition, mcs3_hhgrid has had some data edits applied. The total number of cases in mcs3_hhgrid has changed due to data updates. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet |
URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=5795 |
Title | MCS Sweep 4 update (9th edition) |
Description | Millennium Cohort Study: Age 7, Sweep 4, 2008. For the ninth edition (October 2022), a new data file mcs4_family_interview has been added due to the family level data being split out from the parent-level data to make future merging with MCS8 onwards easier. Two data files (mcs4_parent_interview and mcs4_parent_cm_interview) have been updated to include variables that were missed from the previous edition (mainly from the income and employment module) due to a technical error. There have also been edits to some variable labels that had been found to be incorrect. In addition, the number of cases in the mcs4_hhgrid data file have changed due to updates. Users are advised to check the Longitudinal Family File held under SN 8172 for the sample size. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet |
URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=6411 |
Title | MCS Sweep 4: Physical Activity Data, raw accelerometry files (3rd Edition) |
Description | Millennium Cohort Study: Age 7, Sweep 4, 2008: Physical Activity. Addition of all individual raw accelerometer files (".dat" files (ASCII)) from the main accelerometer study and the seasonal study. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet |
URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=7238 |
Title | MCS Sweep 5 update (6th edition) |
Description | Millennium Cohort Study: Age 11, Sweep 5, 2012. For the 6th edition (October 2022), a new date file mcs5_family_interview, has been added due to the family level data being split out from the parent-level data to make future merging with MCS8 onwards easier. Two data files (mcs5_parent_interview and mcs5_parent_cm_interview) have been updated to include variables that were missed from the previous edition due to a technical error (mainly from the income and employment module). There has been some further restructuring of datasets (parent responses moved out of mcs5_cm_interview and placed into mcs5_parent_cm_interview). Derived SDQ scores have been added to mcs5_cm_derived and a derived Kessler score has been added to mcs5_parent_derived. In addition, the number of cases in the mcs5_hhgrid data file have changed due to updates. Users are advised to check the Longitudinal Family File held under SN 8172 for the sample size. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet |
URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=7464 |
Title | MCS Sweep 6 - 2nd edition |
Description | Millennium Cohort Study: Sixth Survey, 2015 |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet. |
URL | https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=8156&type=Data%20catalogue |
Title | MCS Sweep 6 - Geographical Data - 2001 Boundaries - 1st edition |
Description | Millennium Cohort Study: Geographical Identifiers, Sixth Survey, 2001 Census Boundaries: Secure Access |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet. |
URL | https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=8231&type=Data%20catalogue |
Title | MCS Sweep 6 - Geographical Data - 2011 Boundaries - 1st edition |
Description | Millennium Cohort Study: Geographical Identifiers, Sixth Survey, 2011 Census Boundaries: Secure Access |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet. |
URL | https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=8232&type=Data%20catalogue |
Title | MCS Sweep 6 - Physical Activity Module |
Description | Millennium Cohort Study: Sixth Survey, 2015. The third edition was updated to include Time use diary (TUD) and Accelerometer (ACC) data from the Physical Activity module. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet |
URL | https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=8156&type=Data%20catalogue |
Title | MCS Sweep 6, 2015 - 3rd and 4th editions |
Description | For the third edition (May 2018), new data files covering parent income brackets and data from the Physical Activity module: Time use diary (TUD) and Accelerometer (ACC) were added to the study. User guides for TUD and ACC have also been added. In addition, some updates to existing data have been made For the fourth edition (October 2018) the IMD file for England was replaced with an updated version. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet. |
URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/doi?id=8156 |
Title | MCS Sweep 6, 2015 - 5th edition, Time User Diaries (TUD) |
Description | Millennium Cohort Study: Sixth Survey, 2015 - addition of Activity Monitor Time Use Diaries data (TUD) |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet. |
URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8156 |
Title | MCS Sweep 6, 2015 - 7th Edition |
Description | Millennium Cohort Study: Sixth Survey, 2015 For this edition (August 2020), the datasets remain in long format but the number of cases has been updated (see the mcs_longitudinal_family_file and the variable DATA_AVAILABILITY). Improvements have also been made to variable labels and details are available in the MCS Longitudinal Data Dictionary spreadsheet which provides information on all the variables available in MCS datasets across sweeps with topic information. A new Data Handling Guide with Syntax in R, STATA and SPSS has also been added, along with an updated User Guide. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet |
URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8156 |
Title | MCS Sweep 6- 3rd edition |
Description | Millennium Cohort Study: Sixth Survey, 2015. This third edition (May 2018) was published to include the parent income brackets and to update existing data: addition of 12 families, addition of variables and variable corrections. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet |
URL | https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=8156&type=Data%20catalogue |
Title | MCS Sweep 7: Geographical Identifiers, Census Boundaries (NEW) |
Description | Millennium Cohort Study: Sweep 7 Geographical Identifiers Using 2001 Census Boundaries: Secure Access. This dataset includes the MCS7 geographical indicators: - Census Statistics Ward (January 2003); - Output Area Code 2001; - Lower Super Output Area 2001; - Middle Super Output Area 2001; - Census Urban Rural indicator 2001 |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet |
URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8758 |
Title | MCS Sweeps 1-6, 2001-2016 - Country of Birth |
Description | Millennium Cohort Study, Sweeps 1-6, 2001-2016: Country of Birth: Secure Access |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet |
URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8622 |
Title | MCS Sweeps 1-6, 2001-2016 - Ethnic Group, Religion and Language |
Description | Millennium Cohort Study, Sweeps 1-6, 2001-2016: Ethnic Group, Religion and Language: Secure Access |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet |
URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8623 |
Title | MCS Sweeps 1-6, 2001-2016 - Exact Date of Interview |
Description | Millennium Cohort Study, Sweeps 1-6, 2001-2016: Exact Date of Interview: Secure Access |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet |
URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8456 |
Title | MCS Sweeps 1-6: exact date of interview / UKDS Secure Access for project 118369 |
Description | MCS Sweeps 1-6: exact date of interview / UKDS Secure Access for project 118369 This is a dataset released as part of the CLS data sharing project DAC ref 041: The impact of a health information intervention on children's health, health-related behaviour and academic performance in the UK - This request was for the exact date of interview (i.e. DD/MM/YYYY) for MCS sweeps 1 - 6. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet. |
Title | MCS at SAIL Databank: all sweeps (2n Edition) |
Description | New version of the survey data from all MCS survey sweeps, now including MCS6 and MCS7 have been released to SAIL DataBank for reseach data sharing. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2024 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet |
URL | https://saildatabank.com/data/explore-the-data/ |
Title | MCS genomics - imputed genetics data: CLS GAC (NEW) |
Description | MCS TOPMed imputed data: The raw data were quality controlled (QCd) using stringent thresholds and a standardised CLS pipeline. These data were then imputed using the TOPMed imputation server which incorporates the TOPMed imputation panel; the most up to date reference panel, incorporating the largest number of whole genomes (N=133,597) compared to other panels, enhancing imputation capabilities and enabling improved accuracy in genetic analyses, particularly for underrepresented populations which is beneficial for the MCS cohort. After imputation and QC, the dataset contains 20,257 individuals and 8,720,874 genetic variants. In this dataset there are 7,841 cohort members, 7,781 mothers, 4,635 Fathers and 3,119 trios. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet |
URL | https://cls-genetics.github.io/docs/MCS.html |
Title | MCS linked to MEDIx air pollution - 1st edition |
Description | Millennium Cohort Study, Sweeps 1-6, 2001-2015: Linked to MEDIx Air Pollution Deciles |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet. |
URL | https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=8153&type=Data%20catalogue |
Title | MCS linked to green space - 1st edition |
Description | Millennium Cohort Study, Sweeps 1-5, 2001-2012: Linked to Green Space Deciles at LSOA (England) and Ward Level (UK) |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet. |
URL | https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=8154&type=Data%20catalogue |
Title | MCS survey data and linked Welsh education and health administrative records via SAIL Databank |
Description | SAIL Databank is a Trusted Research Environment entrusted with a wealth of population-scaled data, We have sent MCS survey data for centralised linkage with Welsh education and health administrative records |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Between 1 April 2022 and 28th February 2023, CLS have approved 3 new research projects for access to MCS linked data via SAIL Databank |
URL | https://saildatabank.com/data/ |
Title | MCS: Harmonised Mental Health Measures at Age 10/11 (NEW) |
Description | Harmonised Mental Health Measures at Age 10/11 in Selected British Cohorts: Millennium Cohort Study. This is part of CLOSER Work Package 20 has generated harmonised measures of mental health at age 10/11 in the National Child Development Study (NCDS), 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70), the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), and the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS). It provides the harmonised data on mental health for MCS. Harmonised variables are included on the following areas: i) emotional problems, ii) peer problems, iii) behavioural problems, iv) attention / hyperactivity problems |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet |
URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8881 |
Title | MCS: Linked Education Administrative Datasets (KS1-KS3), Wales: Secure Access (NEW) |
Description | These datasets include education administrative records for Wales up to age 16 to survey data for cohort members in the MCS. The main aim of this data linkage exercise is to enhance the research potential of the study, by combining administrative education records with the rich information collected in the surveys. Datasets include anonymised Local Education Authorities (LEA) to allow comparison of results across LEA. The data were obtained only for children whose parents/carers gave consent to data linkage, and who were successfully matched. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet |
URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=9085 |
Title | MCS: Linked Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), England, 2000-2019: Secure Access (NEW) |
Description | Millennium Cohort Study: Linked Health Administrative Datasets (Hospital Episode Statistics), England, 2000-2019: Secure Access. This includes data files from the NHS Digital HES database for those cohort members who provided consent to health data linkage in the Age 17 sweep. The HES database contains information about all hospital admissions in England. The following linked HES data are available: 1) Accident and Emergency (A&E) data, which details each attendance to an Accident and Emergency care facility in England, between 01-04-2007 and 31-03-2018 (inclusive). It includes major A&E departments, single specialty A&E departments, minor injury units and walk in centres in England; 2) Admitted Patient Care (APC) data, which summarises episodes of care for admitted patients, where the episode occurred between 01-04-2001and 31-03-2020 [DFG1] (inclusive); 3) Critical Care (CC) data, which covers records of critical care activity between 01-04-2008 and 31-03-2020 [DFG2] (inclusive); 4) OutPatient (OP) data, which lists the outpatient appointments between 01-04-2003 and 31-03-2020 [DFG3] (inclusive); 5) Emergency Care Dataset (ECDS) data, which contains emergency care appointments from 01-04-2017 to 31-03-2020. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet |
URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=9030 |
Title | MCS: School level data / UKDS Secure Access for project 119112 |
Description | MCS: School level data / UKDS Secure Access for project 119112: 1. School ethnic composition, 2006/7 to 2014/15 2. School Key Stage 2 performance, 2011/12 3. School Key Stage 4 performance, 2014/15 |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | None as yet |
Title | MCS: School level data in England / UKDS Secure Access for project 128602 |
Description | MCS: School level data in England / UKDS Secure Access for project 128602: - School level average KS2 score; - School absence rate; - School %FSM; - Number of pupils in school; - OFSTED ratings; - School level GCSE performance measures. Note that the data request only applies to MCS participants educated in England. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | None as yet |
Title | Millennium Cohort Study: Linked Education Administrative Dataset (KS2), England: Secure Access |
Description | Millennium Cohort Study: Linked Education Administrative Dataset (KS2), England |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2016 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet |
URL | http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-7712-1 |
Title | Millennium Cohort Study: Sixth Survey, 2015 |
Description | Millennium Cohort Study: Sixth Survey, 2015 |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet |
URL | https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/series/?sn=2000031 |
Title | NCDS and MCS genetics data and biological samples via CLS GenDAC |
Description | The CLS Data Access Committee for genetics (CLS GenDAC) provides bespoke access to: 1) NCDS genetic data linked to survey data; 2) MCS genetics data; 3) NCDS, BCS70 and MCS biological samples. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Between 1st April 2022 and 28th February 2023 the CLS GenDAC have evaluated 24 GENDAC applications, all for access to genetics data. By cohort study the numbers are 6 for NCDS and 20 for MCS. |
URL | https://cls.ucl.ac.uk/data-access-training/genetic-data-and-biological-samples/ |
Title | NCDS, BCS70, Next Steps and MCS Survey research data via CLS DAC |
Description | The CLS Data Access Committee (CLS DAC) provides bespoke access to CLS research data not available in data sharing platforms : 1) Highly sensitive and/or disclosive data; 2) Data not yet ready for deposit; 3) Paradata ; 4) Novel data linkages; 5) Data enhancements |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | From 01 April 2022 to 28th February 2023, the CLS DAC has approved 29 research projects: 17 for data access and 13 for novel data linkages. By cohort study the numbers are: 13 for NCDS, 10 for BCS70, 11 for Next Steps, 25 for MCS, and 7 for Covid-19 research. NOTE: some applications request data from several cohorts. |
URL | https://cls.ucl.ac.uk/data-access-training/data-access/accessing-data-directly-from-cls/ |
Title | NCDS, BCS70, Next Steps and MCS survey data linked to NHS Digital data via the UKLLC |
Description | The UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration (UK LLC) is used by CLS for onward sharing of NCDS, BCS70, Next Steps and MCS survey data and Covid-19 responses and NHS Digital data centrally linked by the UK LLC |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | The UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration (UK LLC) is a Trusted Research Environment set up in 2021 to bring together information from longitudinal study volunteers with their routine records. The aim is to enable researchers' work to improve health and wellbeing throughout and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. We have sent NCDS, BCS70, Next Steps and MCS survey data and Covid-19 responses, which are now linked to NHS Digital records. From 01 April 2021 to 28th February 2023 CLS has approved 5 research projects that use CLS cohort data. |
URL | https://ukllc.ac.uk/datasets/ |
Title | SAIL Databank: MCS survey data for centralised linkage with Welsh education and health administrative records |
Description | SAIL Databank is a Trusted Research Environment entrusted with a wealth of population-scaled data, We have sent MCS survey data for centralised linkage with Welsh education and health administrative records |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet |
URL | https://data.ukserp.ac.uk/Asset/View/52 |
Title | UKLLC: NCDS, BCS70, Next Steps and MCS survey data and Covid-19 responses for centralised linkage with NHS Digital records |
Description | The UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration (UK LLC) has been set up to bring together information from longitudinal study volunteers with their routine records. This is being done in a secure way to help researchers work to improve health and wellbeing throughout and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. We have sent NCDS, BCS70, Next Steps and MCS survey data and Covid-19 responses for centralised linkage with NHS Digital records |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet |
URL | https://ukllc.ac.uk/datasets/ |
Description | Analysis for Action for Children policy report, 'Choose Childhood: building a brighter future for our children' |
Organisation | Action For Children |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Used the Millennium Cohort Study to conduct empirical analysis on the association between family and social relationships in the early years and mental health and subjective wellbeing in adolescence (age 14) |
Collaborator Contribution | Wrote and released a policy report on 'Choose Childhood: building a brighter future for our children'. The report considers how childhoods have changed over the last 150 years, while highlighting that children today still face life-changing disadvantages and that there is a growing risk that, in some areas, progress has started to reverse. Its publication also marks the launch of its new Choose Childhood campaign to urge the government to act now, to put children first and protect them from harm. The report showcases new research undertaken with YouGov to survey children, young people, parents and grandparents about childhood today, as well as new analysis of the Millennium Cohort Study conducted by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies UCL. |
Impact | https://www.actionforchildren.org.uk/what-we-do/policy-and-research/support-for-children-and-families/choose-childhood-policy-report/ |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Bornstein/Fitzsimons |
Organisation | National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
Department | National Institute of Child Health (NICH) |
Country | United States |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Led a report for ESRC on 'Studying the next generations: the case for following the offspring of MCS and Next Steps, and for studies of grandparenting' |
Collaborator Contribution | Provided expertise on appropriate child developmental measures and co-authored report |
Impact | Report (119 pages) for ESRC on 'Studying the next generations: the case for following the offspring of MCS and Next Steps, and for studies of grandparenting' |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Centre for Time Use Research (CTUR) |
Organisation | University of Oxford |
Department | Department of Sociology |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | CLS implemented time use diaries at MCS6, which were designed following extensive advice and input from CTUR. The data from the time use diaries is very rich and will be invaluable to answering a wide range of research questions. |
Collaborator Contribution | CTUR provided extensive expertise on the design of the time use diary instruments at MCS6, particularly during the development phase of the instruments. They also provided input into data cleaning and coding. |
Impact | Time use diary data from MCS6 to be deposited at UKDS by end March 2018. Additionally, CLS is currently looking to make the online and paper versions of the diaries available to users wishing to collect time use diary data. |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | Collaboration with UCL Psychology and Language Sciences Division on a 'Student Mental Health Survey: a needs assessment feasibility study' |
Organisation | University College London |
Department | Division of Psychology & Language Sciences |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Contributed expertise on survey design considerations at several meetings with the team throughout late 2018-2020 (ongoing) |
Collaborator Contribution | Design of questionnaire; conducted focus groups with students concerning design of the survey |
Impact | Multi-disciplinary, including economists, psychologists, psychiatrists and survey methodologists |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Collaboration with international turn of the century cohorts |
Organisation | Growing Up in Australia |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | 2 trips to Australia (to work on research project, and on survey methods/practice); hosted 2 day workshop in London on 'Surveying children and young people' |
Collaborator Contribution | 2 trips to UK, to attend meetings and workshop |
Impact | Hosted 2 day workshop in London on 'Surveying children and young people: experiences from 21st century population cohort studies'. Draft research paper comparing mental health and wellbeing among young people in UK and Australia |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Collaborative research with Growing up in Australia |
Organisation | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
Country | Australia |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Dr Praveetha Patalay (CLS) spent two weeks at the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) working on a joint research project on mental health in young people, comparing the UK and Australian experiences |
Collaborator Contribution | Provided research time to work with Dr Praveetha Patalay during her trip to AIFS, did Australian empirical analysis and assisted with write up of paper |
Impact | Research paper on mental health and wellbeing among young people in Australia and the UK |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Joint paper on MCS with International Centre for Lifecourse Studies in Society and Health |
Organisation | University College London |
Department | International Centre for Lifecourse Studies in Society and Health (ICLS) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Working paper on the relationship between children's screen time and weight, using the Millennium Cohort Study. Paper is under revise and resubmit at International Journal of Obesity. Involved in design, analysis and write up of study. |
Collaborator Contribution | Lead on empirical analysis |
Impact | Working paper 'Longitudinal associations between television in the bedroom and body fatness in a UK cohort study', under revise and resubmit at International Journal of Obesity. |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | Member CLOSER Executive Team |
Organisation | Cohort & Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Learned Society |
PI Contribution | Member of CLOSER Executive Team, advising on operational and strategic issues |
Collaborator Contribution | CLOSER aims to maximise the use, value and impact of UK's longitudinal studies. |
Impact | Contributions to CLOSER operational and strategic activity |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Member CLOSER Executive Team |
Organisation | Cohort & Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Learned Society |
PI Contribution | Member of CLOSER Executive Team, advising on operational and strategic issues |
Collaborator Contribution | CLOSER aims to maximise the use, value and impact of UK's longitudinal studies. |
Impact | Contributions to CLOSER operational and strategic activity |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Member of CLOSER Conference Scientific Organising Committee |
Organisation | Cohort & Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Learned Society |
PI Contribution | As a member of the Scientific Committee, I was involved in all decisions concerning the scope of the conference, including decisions around inclusion of specific themes and sessions; I also shortlisted submissions. |
Collaborator Contribution | CLOSER was responsible for organising and running the conference |
Impact | 3 day online conference: Preparing for the future III - tackling key challenges facing longitudinal population studies in a post-COVID world |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Poverty and Children's Relationships |
Organisation | National Children's Bureau |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Analysed Millennium Cohort Study data and conducted empirical analysis of relationship between poverty and children's personal and social relationships |
Collaborator Contribution | Regular meetings to guide and shape the empirical analysis; led on the writing up of findings |
Impact | Report to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation: https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/poverty-and-childrens-personal-and-social-relationships |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | Saliva collection |
Organisation | University of Bristol |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | This was a collaboration with Dr Sue Ring, Head of Laboratories at the University of Bristol. We collaborated on procedures and processes around the collection of saliva samples at MCS6, and the DNA extraction took place at the University of Bristol. |
Collaborator Contribution | Helped with design of procedures and protocols for collection of saliva samples at MCS6; extracted DNA from approximately 25,000 samples and are storing them at Bristol. |
Impact | DNA extracted samples from approximately 25000 saliva samples - ready for genotyping |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | Save the Children: Read on, Get on |
Organisation | Save the Children |
Country | United States |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Conducted empirical analysis of children's language development across childhood using the MCS data |
Collaborator Contribution | Guided the analysis plan and produced a report 'Ready to Read', which included the empirical analysis as part of it. |
Impact | 'Ready to Read: Closing the gap in early language skills so that every child in England can read', Save the Children Report 2015: http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/assets/0003/5566/Ready_to_Read__-_England_June_2015.pdf |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute |
Organisation | The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Full exome sequencing of Millennium Cohort Study cohort members (approx N =9500). Sanger is carrying this out, at a cost of approx. £500,000. This important new resource will be made available to researchers under appropriate mechanism when complete. |
Collaborator Contribution | Contributed approx. £500,000 Wellcome Funding to full exome sequencing of MCS cohort member genetic data. |
Impact | The Sanger Institute, under Matthew Hurles, is conducting full exome sequencing on MCS genetic data. Hurles leads a team focused on deciphering the genetic causes of severe developmental disorders, and understanding how DNA mutates as it is passed from generation to generation. This is a highly multi-disciplinary collaboration across the social and biomedical sciences. |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Using health record linkage in the UK Millennium Cohort Study to investigate childhood obesity, asthma, infections and immunisations in early life |
Organisation | Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Applied for and obtained health data of Scottish MCS cohort members and facilitated linkage of records to MCS survey data |
Collaborator Contribution | Empirical analysis of linked data |
Impact | Disciplines include economics, health and epidemiology |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | Using health record linkage in the UK Millennium Cohort Study to investigate childhood obesity, asthma, infections and immunisations in early life |
Organisation | University College London |
Department | Institute of Child Health |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Applied for and obtained health data of Scottish MCS cohort members and facilitated linkage of records to MCS survey data |
Collaborator Contribution | Empirical analysis of linked data |
Impact | Disciplines include economics, health and epidemiology |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | Vincent van Hees |
Organisation | Netherlands eScience Center |
Country | Netherlands |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Van Hees provided extensive technical expertise on the accelerometry data collected at MCS6, and assisted in deriving a set of variables from the rich data, accessible to a wide range of non-expert users. |
Collaborator Contribution | CLS provided Van Hees with guidance on the types of measures and variables to be derived from the rich data; CLS provided technical support on the use of the complex and large data set. |
Impact | A set of derived variables from the very rich and detailed accelerometry data collected as part of MCS6. The variables are due to be deposited at UKDS by end March 2018, and will be readily available for a wide range of users to incorporate into analyses of physical activity and sedentary behaviour. |
Start Year | 2014 |
Title | Time use diary - App version |
Description | Adaptation of an App developed by Ipsos MORI, to collect time use data on 14-year olds over two 24-hour periods |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2014 |
Impact | Collection of detailed time use data from 14-year olds using an App (data was also collected using an online tool, and in a minority of cases, a paper diary) |
Title | Time use diary - online version |
Description | An online version of a time use diary, with 44 pre-recorded activities, developed for the first time for use in the MCS6 sweep |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2014 |
Impact | Collection of detailed data on time use of 14-year olds using an online tool (data also collected via an App developed by Ipsos MORI, and in a minority of cases, a paper diary) |
Description | ADRN Productive Society Themed Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | I was invited to become a partner in the ADRN Theme 'Productive Society'. The purpose of this Theme Partnership is to consider the following questions and to take the actions necessary to answer them: 1. What are the most important economic and social issues within this Theme? 2. What sort of insights are needed to make a difference to those issues? 3. What administrative datasets are needed to support those insights? 4. How should these data be created and used for these purposes? 5. What shall we do first? Outcomes included highlighting the need for rich employer-employee linked data sets. A follow up meeting is currently being planned. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Advisory Board: ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change (MiSoc) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Emla Fitzsimons is a member of the MiSoc Advisory Board. Emla's attendance at Board meetings would advise on strategy and decisions. MiSoc Directors and researchers attended the meeting in October 2015. Emla's attendance has further strengthened collaborations with a large ESRC-funded investment. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2016,2017,2018 |
Description | Advisory Panel: LSYPE2 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | The LSYPE2 Advisory Panel met in September 2015 to provide advice on the scientific content of the forthcoming LSYPE2 survey. LSYPE2 survey covers England only. The primary audience was Department of Education, which runs the study. The decisions from this meeting influences the scientific team at DfE, study participants who will be affected directly by questionnaire content, researchers who will use data from the study when available. After the meeting, Emla received email from Tim Leunig, Chief Scientific Advisor and Chief Analyst at the DfE, requesting further methodological advice. Emla advised Tim Leunig and team on strategies to maximise consent to data linkage. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | BLOG on MCS Profile |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Blog based on the publication in October 2016 of the MCS cohort profile in Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://ioelondonblog.wordpress.com/2017/01/10/social-inequalities-the-report-card/ |
Description | Blog for International Women's Day on Longitudinal Research |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A blog was posted to highlight points made in an article for World of Labor on 'Why do we need longtidinal survey data?' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://wol.iza.org/articles/why-do-we-need-longitudinal-survey-data/long |
Description | Blog: A misspent youth? How new technology is shedding light on what teenagers do all day |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Writing for the CLS website blog, Dr Emily Gilbert discussed how the use of new technology in surveys has enabled researchers to gain new insights into the lives of the millennial generation. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://cls.ucl.ac.uk/blog-a-misspent-youth-how-new-technology-is-shedding-light-on-what-teenagers-d... |
Description | Blog: A misspent youth? How new technology is shedding light on what teenagers do all day |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | This blog was written by Dr Emily Gilbert. It discusses how the use of new technology has enabled researchers to gain new insights into the lives of today's teenager. The blog was released to coincide with the new Millennium Cohort Study Age 14 time use diary and accelerometer data deposit. As of 22 June 2018, the blog on the CLS website has had 82 visits. It was also cross-posted on the CLOSER website. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/news.aspx?itemid=4702&itemTitle=Blog%3a+A+misspent+youth%3f+How+new+technol... |
Description | Blog: Children's mental wellbeing and ill-health: not two sides of the same coin |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | If I asked you what makes a child happy, one possible answer would be the opposite of what makes them sad. This would be considered a non-controversial response. The intuitive assumption when considering subjective wellbeing and psychological distress is that factors associated with one are associated with the other - albeit in the opposite direction. But what if we're wrong? What if wellbeing and mental illness, or happy and sad, are not two sides of the same mental health coin? In this blog for World Mental Health Day, Dr Praveetha Patalay examines the factors that influence children's mental illness and wellbeing using the Millennium Cohort Study. The blog appeared on the What Works for Wellbeing blog, and was cross-posted to the IOE London blog and the CLS website. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://whatworkswellbeing.org/2016/10/10/childrens-mental-wellbeing-and-ill-health-not-two-sides-of... |
Description | CLOSER conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Presentation at the annual CLOSER conference on 'The impact of maternal employment on children's weight', evidenced using the Millennium Cohort Study. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Closer Executive Committee |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Emla Fitzsimons joined the CLOSER Executive Committee and represents the interests of the CLS studies on the Committee |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/people/executive/ |
Description | Conference presentation at SLLS in Milan: Parenting typology and child and adolescent mental health problems |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Conference presentation at Society for Longitudinal and Life-Course Studies in Milan titled: Parenting typology and child and adolescent mental health problems. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Conference presentation at SLLS in Munich |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | This was a presentation for the annual conference of the Society for Lifecourse and Longitudinal Studies. The title of the presentation was: "Association of school connectedness with exclusion and truancy: Evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Conference presentation at Society for Lifecourse and Longitudinal Studies, Potsdam, Germany, 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | The title of the presentation was: Family structure instability across childhood and adolescent antisocial behaviour. This was research based on the Millennium Cohort Study using all available surveys (Sweep 1 to 6). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Conference presentation: Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Emla Fitzsimons attended the Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Conference in October 2015 as the speaker in a symposium session on 'Linking policy and research'. The primary audience was policy makers in Health Departments and she showcased how longitudinal resources produce important impacts in policy making. The talk was well received and resulted in engaging discussion afterwards - Mairead O'Driscoll, Director of Research Strategy and Funding at the Irish Health Research Board (HRB), was part of the panel and provided reflections on the talks. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Contribution to NPD User Review |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Contributed to NPD User Review, including a 1 hour interview concerning the importance of NPD data to researchers, and specifically NPD data linked to cohort studies - and ensuring we maintain data accessibility with appropriate governance. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Contribution to the European Survey Reseach Assocation conference 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | We had a significant presence at the 2017 international conference of the European Survey Research Association in Lisbon, Portugal which took place between Monday 17th and Friday 21st July 2019. http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference. It is a large conference lasting 5 days with multiple strands parallel sessions at each time, attended by around 800 academics, professional survey practitioners and post-graduate students from around the world. This is one of the major international survey methodology conferences, which takes place biennially. It was attended by eight members of CLS staff. In total, we delivered and/or co-authored eight presentations based on the all of our four cohort studies, covering participant engagement, data linkage, responsive design, bio-social data collection, occupation coding, and missing data. We are also organised conference sessions on surveying children and young people, biomedical data collection and handling missing data. Our presence at the conference was re-enforced through Twitter, with two CLS staff members tweeting from the conference and also tweets sent from CLS main account. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference |
Description | Contribution to the European Survey Research Association conference 2015 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | We had a significant presence at the 2015 international conference of the European Survey Research Association in Reykjavik, Iceland. which took place between Monday 13th and Friday 17th July 2015. http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference. It is a large conference lasting 5 days with multiple strands parallel sessions at each time, attended by around 800 academics, professional survey practitioners and post-graduate students from around the world. This is one of the major international survey methodology conferences, which takes place biennially. It was attended by eight members of CLS staff. In total, we delivered and/or co-authored eleven presentations based on the three of our four cohort studies, covering surveying children and young people, collection of time-use and activity monitor data, data linkage, mixed-modes, event history calendars, para-data, DDI and interviewer training. Many of the presentations were joint with the survey agencies we have worked with on the studies (NatCen, IPSOS-MORI and TNS-BMRB). We are also organised seven conference sessions in total on surveying children and young people, collecting time-use data and administrative data linkage. Our presence at ESRA was backed up by a London-based social media strategy which involved tweets from the @clscohorts account to promote the presentations on the cohort studies and the sessions we organised. Two of the staff members also engaged in tweeting at the conference. It total we sent around 150 tweets making us among the top tweeters at the whole conference. This enabled the research to reach far more people, both at the conference and beyond. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference |
Description | Deliver of workshop title: Harmonising mental health measurements from the British birth cohorts |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | This event explored the measurement properties of mental health measures from the British birth cohorts, and the harmonisation process that enables them to be used in cross-study research. We presented results on the measurement properties of mental health measures, before and after harmonising these so that they can be compared across time and study. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/harmonising-mental-health-measures/ |
Description | ESRC Public dialogue workshop in Newcastle on 'Using population data for inclusive research - engaging with the public' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Following the ESRC Longitudinal Studies Review, ESRC concluded that there is a need for public engagement over procedures that could improve selection of people into longitudinal studies, foster their continued participation and mechanisms to improve coverage of vulnerable and marginalised groups. Peter Elias, along with Kantar Public, designed a series of dialogue workshops at which various ideas to tackle these issues were elaborated and discussed. My role was to represent the Millennium Cohort Study at the two workshops in Newcastle, which involved giving a presentation describing the study, and being an active participant in discussions with members of the public concerning recruitment to and retention in such studies, and in particular to elicit views concerning adminstrative record use and linkage. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Facilitating Shared Survey Metadata across the Life-Cycle in Longitudinal Studies - A UK Perspective |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk encouraged others to look at ways in which they could learn and potentially replicate from recent developments in the UK which brought together stakeholders to create a common understanding of what the benefits of shared metadata are, and led to an agreement on a common way forward. I have been asked to give further talks at other institutions on this subject |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://www.eddi-conferences.eu/ocs/index.php/eddi/eddi14/paper/view/155 |
Description | Film: Children's mental health: an "urgent" issue |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | On 10 October 2018, the UCL Institute of Education released a short film for World Mental Health Day showcasing the findings and impact of research by Prof Emla Fitzsimons on rates of depression among 14-year-olds taking part in the Millennium Cohort Study. It features interviews with Professor Emla Fitzsimons, MCS director at the IOE and Larissa Pople, a senior researcher at the Children's Society, who explains why the MCS is so important for charities trying to improve children's welfare. Ms Pople said: "The Millennium Cohort Study is one of the data sources we draw on the most to understand children's lives. These are the kinds of studies that are really relevant for us. We help children that are in need, particularly those who may have run away from home, for example. We also do policy and research on related issues, particularly on children's wellbeing and poverty." The film was part of the #weareioe campaign intended to attract new students and showcase the policy relevance of IOE research. At the time of submission, the film had been viewed 439 times on YouTube. It was shared widely on CLS and IOE social media channels. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://cls.ucl.ac.uk/millennium-cohort-study-a-vital-resource-for-childrens-advocates-explains-the-... |
Description | Interview as part of a feasibility study for European Commission about a European Longitudinal Study of Children and Young People |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Lisa Calderwood took part in a 30 minute phone interview with a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University who is working on a project called MyWeb (Measuring Youth Well Being) funded by the European Commission and involving the collaboration of a group of European universities in order to assess the feasibility of a European Longitudinal Study for Children and Young People that prioritises both scientific and policy imperatives. In this research project we explore the feasibility of conducting a longitudinal survey, which would capture the full picture of the growing-up process possibly from birth to the end of a child/young person's education. As part of this they are undertaking a review of key national and international longitudinal surveys in order to: • Understand key design decisions (population coverage, sample design, questionnaire development and testing methods used, etc.) • Learn lessons from the above about what worked well and what worked less well (particularly regarding participation) to support recommendations that will be made to the European Commission. As part of this scoping study I was interviewed about the Millennium Cohort Study |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Invitation to NHH School of Economics two day workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The Childhood Gap is one of the key projects at the Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality and Rationality (FAIR), at the NHH Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen. It was established as a Centre of Excellence (CoE) in 2017 with funding from The Research Council of Norway, and I was invited to the first two-day workshop in the project to brainstorm ways forward and lay the groundwork for focus areas of the project. All the guests presented important insight on childhood development, experimental design and large cohort studies and many important discussions were initiated by the presentations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.nhh.no/en/research-centres/fair/about/ |
Description | Invited Speaker: COEURE (Cooperation on European Research in Economics) workshop on 'Human capital and education: the state of the art and a research agenda' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | In October 2015, Emla Fitzsimons presented on value of longitudinal studies in advancing research and impact on education policies; COEURE is a forum which brings together the key stakeholders in the European economic research space - scientists from the different strands of economic research in Europe, users of community, economic decision makers, and funders of economic research, and which, by a process of stocktaking, consultation and stakeholder engagement, is aimed to formulate an Agenda for Research Funding for Economics in Europe. Emla provided an overview of value of longitudinal data for research in the economics of education, showcasing impacts to date. This resulted in a contribution to a report to funders of a study where Professor Simon Burgess is PI. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Invited to present at keynote session of the Adolescent Lives and Wellbeing Conference, organised by the UCL Centre for Global Health |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Invited to present the keynote session of the UCL Adolescent Lives and Wellbeing conference, organised by the Centre for Global Health. Speakers at the session included Emla Fitzsimons, Morag Henderson and Aase Villadsen (Centre for Longitudinal Studies, UCL Institute of Education). Presented evidence on mental health and wellbeing from the Millennium Cohort Study and Next Steps. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/adolescent-lives-and-wellbeing-conference-tickets-37800843340# |
Description | Invited workshop - Surveying children and young people: Experiences from 21st century population cohort studies |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | On 24-25 July, the Centre for Longitudinal Studies hosted a meeting of 25 leading international cohort study teams to share their experiences of surveying children and young people. The two day invited workshop brought together researchers and survey practitioners from cohort studies that started around or since the turn of the millennium. The studies represented at the workshop were the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), Growing Up in Australia, Growing Up in New Zealand, Growing Up in Scotland, Growing Up in Ireland, Fragile Families (USA), Generation R (Rotterdam, Netherlands), The French National Birth Cohort (ELFE), the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study (MoBa) and the Danish Longitudinal Survey of Children. The major themes covered were participant engagement and retention, questionnaire design and data collection and ethics. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://cls.ucl.ac.uk/growing-up-across-the-globe-cls-hosts-event-to-share-learning-from-internation... |
Description | Joint Fragile Families/MCS Workshop, Colombia University |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Workshop sparked increased interest in and use of MCS data After the workshop, I received requests from various postgraduate students about accessing the data |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Keynote speaker at Growing up in Ireland annual conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Keynote talk on 'Mental health among young people: longitudinal evidence from the UK' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.growingup.ie/information-for-researchers/gui-conferences/ |
Description | Keynote talk at Public Health Wales 'First 1000 Days' event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | I was invited to be the keynote speaker at the Public Health Wales 'First 1000 Days' event in Cardiff in December 2019, and presented evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study on inequalities in early years and their later evolution and impacts. The national one day event was attended by approx. 100 policymakers and practitioners working in early years provision in Wales. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Lessons for the French cohort, ELFE, from the UK experience |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Contribution to a day meeting refleting on the results so far of the French birth cohort Elfe and its possible continuation. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.ined.fr/en/news/scientific-meetings/seminaries-colloque-ined/journee-scientifique-elfe/ |
Description | Longitudinal data across the life course: an introduction to using cohort data (Cardiff) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | This workshop gave both first-time and more experienced data users an insight into the four cohort studies run by CLS. It featured presentations introducing each of the studies including recent developments, upcoming data releases and information on how to access the data. The seminar also featured three presentations from guest speakers who spoke about how they have used CLS studies in their own research. The session had 47 registrations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/Conference.aspx?itemid=4674&itemTitle=Longitudinal+data+across+the+life+cou... |
Description | Lunch hour lecture |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | UCL lunch hour lecture on 'Child Development in Developing Countries'. In this lecture Professor Attanasio talks about the recent interest in child development in developing countries through intervention in early years, and describes a pilot intervention programme that his research team has been developing in Colombia and India. Early years intervention has proved to be very effective in having long lasting impacts on individual development, and this lecture discusses the challenges of identifying modalities that can be delivered at low cost and therefore scaled up in developing countries, and understanding the mechanisms through which these interventions work. The lecture has had over 3,000 views on youtube. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lhl/Autumn2011/10_22112011 |
Description | MCS Initial Findings - Presentation Dept for Work and Pensions |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation of MCS6 Initial Findings at the Department for Work and Pensions, generating interest in the study and requests for further information about certain aspects of the findings. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | MCS co-funders meetings |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Bi-annual meetings, commencing 2014, with the government departments who contributed co-funding to the sixth sweep of the Millennium Cohort Study. Departments include: Department for Education, Department of Health, Ministry of Justice, Home Office, Department for Transport, Department of Work and Pensions, Welsh Government and Department for Employment and Learning Northern Ireland. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2015,2016,2017,2018 |
Description | MCS6 Initial Findings Presentation - Dept of Health |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation of MCS6 Initial Findings at the Dept of Health, after which colleagues reported a keen interest in findings from the forthcoming sweep of the study |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | MCS6 Initial Findings Presentation - Home Office |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation of MCS6 Initial Findings at the Home Office, generating interest in the study and the data, and requests for further information about the findings |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | MCS6 Initial Findings Talk - Northern Ireland |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation of MCS6 Initial Findings at the Northern Ireland Education Dept. Attended by approx. 30 people, and sparked a great deal of interest in the study and findings,generating interest around the MCS7 data release. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Media coverage for follow-up briefing on young people's mental health |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | We produced a CLS briefing paper, Mental ill-health and wellbeing at age 14. CLS worked on an exclusive article with Denis Campbell, Guardian Health Editor. For the story, Campbell used the CLS briefing paper, and conducted interviews with lead author, Dr Praveetha Patalay. The story appeared as the front page lead article in The Guardian on Saturday, 19 May 2018. The Times and Mail ran their own online stories based on the Guardian exclusive later that day. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/may/18/poorest-brightest-girls-uk-depressed-study-teenagers... |
Description | Meeting with Born in Guangzhou Cohort Study |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Lisa Calderwood met with around 8 researchers from the Born in Guangzhou Cohort Study team who were visiting the UK for about 2 hours on 27th August 2015 to share learning from the CLS cohort studies, primarily the Millennium Cohort Study regarding collecting consent to data linkage and more generally on the design and conduct of longitudinal studies. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Meeting with Christine O'Farrelly to give advice on collecting saliva samples |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Meeting with Christine O'Farrelly (Healthy Start, Happy Start - Trial Manager, Imperial College London) plus two of her colleagues to give advice on collecting saliva samples from children, based on our experiences of doing this on Millennium Cohort Study. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Meeting with Education Policy Institute to provide advice on use of MCS |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Meeting with the Education Policy Institute to discuss CLS cohort data - contents and use - and to promote use of the data in its research |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Meetings with survey agencies regarding strategic issues and data collection innovations |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | We wrote to all of the main UK survey agencies - Ipsos MORI, NatCen, TNS-BMRB, Gfk-NOP, ONS - to ask them to showcase to us some of the innovations in data collection and new technologies that they may have carried out on commercial and other kinds of studies, and also to invite them to discuss with us strategic issues facing longitudinal studies in the UK. All of the responded positively and these meetings were held in Summer 2016. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Mental health and wellbeing in the millennial generations |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | As part of the ESRC's Festival of Social Science, CLS hosted a breakfast seminar focused on mental health and wellbeing. Emla Fitzsimons, Praveetha Patalay and Morag Henderson presented recent research from MCS and Next Steps covering the state of mental health wellbeing among the two generations. The seminar concluded with a discussion of the findings led by Louise Arseneault. The session was aimed mainly at policymakers and third sector organisations. Of the 10 evaluations received, 90% rated the event as 'Very' interesting and 80% rated it as 'Very' educational. When asked if they would use what they learnt in their own work, 40% 'Strongly Agreed' while 60% 'Agreed'. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/Conference.aspx?itemid=4648&itemTitle=Mental+health+and+wellbeing+in+the+mi... |
Description | Millennium generation cohort meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | This two day workshop, organised by Emla Fitzsimons and Lisa Calderwood at CLS, included study leads from Growing up in Ireland, Growing up in Australia, and Growing up in New Zealand. This sparked ongoing collaboration and discussion, with a further workshop planned for April 2019 (in Australia). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation provided an overview of MCS and focused also on cross-national comparisons, bringing out differences in Northern Ireland versus rest of UK After my talk I met with the Chief Executive of NISRA and discussed plans for MCS going forward, and their specific interests in the study |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Open University |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Presentation to postgraduate students on the Millennium Cohort Study, at the Open University |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.open.ac.uk/ikd/events/initial-findings-age-14-sweep-millennium-cohort-study-mental-health... |
Description | Parental Wealth and children's outcomes in the UK Millennium Cohort Study |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | CLOSER conference |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Participation in BBC Radio 4 Podcast 'Do children of married parents do better?' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | oes being born to non-married parents affect a child's prospects in life? BBC Education Editor Branwen Jeffreys investigates research from the Millennium Cohort Study (with Professor Emla Fitzsimons) and the US Fragile Families study (with Professor Sara McLanahan). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002b9z |
Description | Presentation by Praveetha Patalay at UCL organised event bringing together academics and the Millennial generation for a one-day debate on the roadmap to 2030 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Praveetha Patalay presented MCS contribution pertient in representing the millennial generation at UCL organised event bringing together academics generation for a one-day debate on the roadmap to 2030. The debate took place in November 2015: the date by which the UN want to eradicate poverty worldwide. The event saw engaging debate and discussions, with much interest generated in MCS data. This is an example of further dissemination of MCS as key resource in understanding millennial generation. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Presentation of research findings on weapon offending to Home Office |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation of new research findings on weapon offences in late adolescence to Home Office. This was followed by questions and debate. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Presentation of research findings on weapon offending to Youth Endowment Fund |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Findings from research on weapon offences were presented to the Youth Endowment Fund, a well-known third sector organisation set up to prevent children and young people becoming involved in violence. The presentation lead to useful discussions afterwards. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Presentation of research paper at Adolescent Lives and Wellbeing Conference (UCL, London) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Presentation of a research paper on parenting type and adolescent mental health |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/global-youth/ |
Description | Presentation of research paper at CLOSER conference (British Library, London) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Presentation of research paper on father departure on child mental health |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/conference |
Description | Presentation of research paper at SLLS conference Stirling |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Presentation of research paper on effect of father departure in child mental health |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Presentation on British birth cohorts at UCL Dept of Epidemiology and Public Health |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | UCL Department of Epidemiology and Public Health invited Emla Fitzsimons to a seminar to present on British birth cohorts in October 2015. The primary audience was academics working in Department of Epidemiology and Public Health. This presentation increased awareness of features of the cohort studies and specific data available. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Presentation on MCS findings at Welsh Government |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | I gave a 1.5 hour talk at Welsh Government, Cardiff on 'The Millennium Cohort Study and its varied uses in research' on 12 November 2019. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Presentation to NICE Public Health Advisory Committee in relation to school-based alcohol interventions for children and young people |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Provided expert testimony (presentation and report) on drinking behaviour in the millennial generation to National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Public Health Advisory Committee. This was in relation to their development of new guidelines on alcohol school-based interventions for children and young people. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Press release: More than one in ten 14-year-olds admit to binge drinking |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Based on the Millennium Cohort Study age 14 survey, a briefing paper and press release examining risk taking behaviours among teenagers were issued to the media. The press release focused on the rates of participation in drinking, smoking and drug-taking specifically. It highlighted variations by gender, UK country and other background factors. These findings were covered by national media, including in print in The Times, Telegraph and Daily Mail and Metro, and PI Emla Fitzsimons was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's You & Yours. Many regional papers also covered the story. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/news.aspx?itemid=4675&itemTitle=More+than+one+in+ten+14-year-olds+admit+to+... |
Description | Press release: One in five young people obese at age 14 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A briefing paper, press release and social media content were published to share the Millennium Cohort Study age 14 findings on obesity. One in five young people born in the UK at the turn of the century was obese by the age of 14, and a further 15 per cent were found to be overweight. Researchers from the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) at the UCL Institute of Education analysed information on more than 10,000 teenagers who are taking part in the Millennium Cohort Study. These latest findings reinforce the importance of plans from UK governments to tackle the childhood obesity epidemic over the coming years. Professor Emla Fitzsimons took part in a debate on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour with presenter, Jenni Murray, and Dr Benedetta Pongiglione was interviewed for a Brazilian news programme, 'Fala Brasil' for the Record TV channel. The press release was picked up by BBC News online, The Times, Daily Mail, The Sun, Daily Mirror, Daily Telegraph, Daily Express, iNews and various regional radio stations and online news websites. The research was also featured in the Department of Health Childhood Obesity Plan email update. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/news.aspx?itemid=4662&itemTitle=One+in+five+young+people+obese+at+age+14&si... |
Description | Press release: One in four girls is depressed at age 14, new study reveals |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A briefing paper, press release and social media content were published to share the Millennium Cohort Study age 14 findings on mental health. New research shows a quarter of girls (24%) and one in 10 boys (9%) are depressed at age 14. Researchers from the UCL Institute of Education and the University of Liverpool analysed information on more than 10,000 children born in 2000-01 who are taking part in the Millennium Cohort Study. At ages 3, 5, 7, 11 and 14, parents reported on their children's mental health. Then, when they reached 14, the children were themselves asked questions about their depressive symptoms. Based on the 14-year-olds reporting of their emotional problems, 24 per cent of girls and 9 per cent of boys suffer from depression. The lead author, Dr Praveetha Patalay was interviewed about the research on BBC Breakfast TV, Radio 4's Today programme, BBC Radio Five Live, for BBC primetime TV news, and the ITV Lunchtime news. The research was also covered on BBC Radio 2 and LBC radio, as well as on TV news shows, including the BBC Two's Victoria Derbyshire show, Channel 4 News and Channel 5 news. The press release was picked up by The Times, The Guardian, Daily Mail, The Sun, Daily Telegraph, Independent, TES, Huffington Post and NHS Choices website. The research was widely shared and discussed on website comment boards, and via social media. The BBC online news article received 452 comments, and a Guardian opinion piece, based on the research findings, was shared 5,530 times and received 1,124 comments. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2006,2017 |
URL | http://www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/news.aspx?itemid=4646&itemTitle=One+in+four+girls+is+depressed+at+age+14%2c... |
Description | Press release: Reading improves teenagers' vocab, whatever their background, say researchers |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | A briefing paper, press release and social media content were published to share the Millennium Cohort Study age 14 findings on cognition. These communications highlighted how reading for pleasure helps expand teenagers' vocabulary. Our infographics were cross posted on the UCL Institute of Education's Twitter feed, and one post has notched up 464 retweets and 403 likes to date (to end of February 2018). According to Edurank (a social media measurement tool for the education sector) this tweet was the education sector's most popular tweet in November. Off the back of this work, one grammar school English teacher has been in touch with us to enquire if UCL runs any seminars on the subject of reading for pleasure and we are now actively considering how we might take these findings out to a wider audience of teachers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/news.aspx?itemid=4657&itemTitle=Reading+improves+teenagers%e2%80%99+vocab%2... |
Description | Press release: Teenage girls set their sights on lower paying jobs than boys, new research finds |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Based on the Millennium Cohort Study age 14 survey, a briefing paper and press release were issued to the media exploring the differences in teenage boys and teenage girls aspirations for a university education and for their future careers. The findings revealed that, while teenage girls were more likely than teenage boys to have high hopes of going to university and having a professional or managerial occupation, boys were aiming than girls when it came to future earnings. The story was covered by the Telegraph online. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/news.aspx?itemid=4665&itemTitle=Teenage+girls+set+their+sights+on+lower+pay... |
Description | Press release: Teenagers shun homework for social media and video games, new survey finds |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | We issued a press release to share the high level findings from the newly deposited time-use diary and accelerometer data collected through the MCS age 14 survey. The press release revealed how teenagers were far more likely to spend time on social media and gaming after school than on their homework. The story was covered by TES and was also shared on a range of websites, including Myscience. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/news.aspx?itemid=4698&itemTitle=Teenagers+shun+homework+for+social+media+an... |
Description | Public Health England - Annual Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited speaker at Public Health England Annual Conference, 'Children's mental illness and wellbeing - findings from the Millennium Cohort Study', September 2018. Received requests for further information afterwards |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Public Health England - Special Interest Group on children and young people's mental health |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | The Green Paper: Transforming children and young people's mental health made a recommendation for Public Health England to convene a special interest group bringing together academics, practitioners and professionals to identify key prevention evidence relating to children and young people's mental health, its relevance to practice and to highlight gaps and make recommendations for these to be addressed through further research. Given my expertise in this area, I was invited to be a member of this Special Interest Group. The SIG met on a total of 3 occasions during 2018/19 and is playing an important role in steering an initial programme of work on this area, |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
Description | Public Health England Webinar |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Invited talk at Public Health England webinar on 'Young People's Mental Health and Wellbeing - data insights, prevention and promotion' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Request from neighbourhood police recruiting charity (Police Now) for data for PR campaign |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | We responded to a request from Police Now, a charity which recruits graduates to become neighbourhood police officers, for data that would help with a campaign they were working on. We provided data, from the Millennium Cohort Study, about children's and teenagers' career aspirations, including the popularity of 'police officer' as a dream job among this cohort. Police Now used this data to write a news brief, which they planned to issue in March. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | SLLS Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Two presentations at the annual Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies conference, held in Stirling. I organised a special session on the MCS6 (age 14) Initial Findings, in which five MCS papers were presented. I also presented a paper at an additional session. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Seminar: Reading for pleasure |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | CLS hosted an event at Hanover Primary School in Islington, London. Following the impact of CLS's reading for pleasure research based on BCS70, CLS pursued further engagement in local schools. Jack Sloan, Deputy Head of Hanover, was active on Guardian reading for pleasure blogs and has worked with the IOE before. CLS approached him to collaborate. This event has the aim of disseminating research to a non-academic audience, such as the children, parents, schoolteachers and the like. We are going to discuss some of the research relating to reading for pleasure, and how to promote it within the home. Prof Alice Sullivan and Dr Sam Parsons presented findings from MCS and BCS70 on the importance of reading to child development and adult outcomes to parents and teachers, while Pamela Butchart and William Grill (both children's authors) carried out workshops with the pupils. Approximately 97 children, 69 parents/carers, and 30 members of staff attended the event. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/Conference.aspx?itemid=4394&itemTitle=Reading+for+Pleasure+Event+%28private... |
Description | Social media content: risk taking activities among 14-year-olds |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | A series of infographic-based posts were created for the CLS Twitter feed to highlight different aspects of the Millennium Cohort Study age 14 findings on teenage risky behaviours. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Submission of analyses to the Home Office on shoplifting and neighbourhood crime using the Millennium Cohort Study. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Submission of analyses requested by the Home Office in relation to prevalence and predictors of shoplifting and neighbourhood crime at age 17 using the Millennium Cohort Study. This is part of an ongoing collaboration between CLS and the Home Office. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023,2024 |
Description | Submission of evidence to UK Parliament Home Affairs Committee on trends and patterns of young people's drug use across the four UK nations |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | This was a response for evidence to a call from UK Parliament Home Affairs Committee on drug use in the UK. We provided a response in relation to a question on trends and patterns of young people's drug use across the four UK nations. Our evidence focused on our analyses of the Millennium Cohort Study at age 17 which we had published previously in a report. The evidence was published on the UK Parliament website, linked below. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/work/6534/drugs/publications/written-evidence/?SearchTerm=villadsen... |
Description | Submission of written evidence to All-Party Parliamentary Group enquiry on impact on social media on young people's mental health and wellbeing |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Response to a call for submission of written evidence to All-Party Parliamentary Group enquiry on impact on social media on young people's mental health and wellbeing. This drew heavily on the Millennium Cohort Study and the data available for examining this question. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Talk presenting findings at a conference to celebrate the Millennium Cohort Study |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | I gave a presentation of a paper titled: Clustering of adverse health and educational outcomes in adolescence following early childhood disadvantage. I was contacted afterwards regarding methods for someone who was doing their own analyses on the Millennium Cohort Study. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Tweets promoting the MCS Age 14 time use data and accelerometer blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | The CLS twitter account featured a couple of tweets to promote the publication of Dr Emily Gilbert's blog on the MCS time use diary and acceleromete data deposit. The tweets made over 3,000 impressions and had a combined 48 engagements including 9 retweets, 5 likes, and 1 reply. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://twitter.com/CLScohorts |
Description | UKRI Infrastructure Roadmap Event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Supporters |
Results and Impact | Workshop organised by CLOSER to discuss and promote the strategic importance of longitudinal data in UKRI landscape. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | UNICEF Cohort and Longitudinal Symposium |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | I was part of two panels showcasing the MCS to an international set of PIs of longitudinal studies - covering developed and developing countries - along with other academics. After my talks I was approached by the PI of 'Birth to Twenty' (South Africa) to be part of a conference there in November 2015 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Wales Presentation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | An invited presentation on the Millennium Cohort Study - contents and key findings to date - at the University of Cardiff |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://the-sra.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/millenium-cohort-study-emla-fitzsimons.pdf |
Description | Webinar: Introduction to the Millennium Cohort Study |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | This webinar introduced the Millennium Cohort Study to both first-time and more experienced data users, with a focus on the age 11 and age 14 surveys. It gave attendees the opportunity to hear from those with years of experience using this study, and the chance to ask them questions about the data. There were 117 registrations for this event. Delegates scored it an 8/10 on satisfaction and a 7/10 on relevance. A video of the webinar was made available via CLS's website and Youtube channel. It has had 50 views to as of 4 February 2016. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/Conference.aspx?itemid=4373&itemTitle=Webinar%3a+Introduction+to+the+Millen... |
Description | Webinar: Introduction to the Millennium Cohort Study and the Age 14 Survey |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | The webinar aimed to introduce the Millennium Cohort Study to both first-time and more experienced users. It had a particular focus on the newly-available data from the age 14 survey. It gave attendees the opportunity to hear from experts who have been working on and using the data for many years, and the chance to ask them questions about the data. There were 147 registrations for this event. Delegates scored it an 8.5/10 on satisfaction and a 9/10 on relevance. A video of the webinar was made available via CLS's website and Youtube channel. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/Conference.aspx?itemid=4567&itemTitle=Webinar%3a+Introduction+to+the+Millen... |
Description | Webinar: New data from the Millennium Cohort Study |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | This webinar introduced users to the new time use diary and accelerometer data collected during the Age 14 sweep of the Millennium Cohort Study. The session was split into 3 sessions. The first focused on a general introduction to the study and the new data as well as an update of the MCS6 data. The second focused on the data structure and handling. The final session looked ahead and gave an update on the MCS Age 17 sweep. The webinar had 60 registrations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/Conference.aspx?itemid=4697&itemTitle=Webinar%3a+New+data+from+the+Millenni... |
Description | Webinar: UK Data Service: an introduction to data on education |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Talk sparked interest in UKDS data relating to education, and increased awareness of how to access data Received very positive feedback on the webinar, e.g. "it served its purpose admirably" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=4009 |
Description | Website: MCS participant-facing website and social media |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | CLS designed and built a participant-facing website for MCS study members and their families. The purpose of the website is to provide feedback to study members on the findings and impact of the study, as well as to provide important information about upcoming surveys and how they can update their contact details. Study members can also access any information that has been sent to them by post, the study's other main communication channel. An animated video, interactive study timeline and infographics of descriptive statistics were developed to provide a more engaging way of providing the information to study members. To date the site has had 5,699 visitors and 20,240 unique pageviews. CLS also set up a Facebook page and Twitter account to engage with study members via social media. Quarterly social media campaigns update cohort members and their families on recent findings from the study, and encourage them to update their contact details. The Facebook page has 444 likes and the Twitter account has 166 followers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://www.childnc.net |
Description | Workshop: Introduction to the Millennium Cohort Study |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | This workshop introduces the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) to both first-time and more experienced data users, with a focus on the age 11 and age 14 surveys. It includes a computer-based training session that gives participants the opportunity to analyse the data under the guidance of experienced users. The workshop was fully booked with 25 delegates. They scored it an average of 8/10 on both satisfaction and relevance. Some comments included: The STATA coding was excellent. An excellent course that gave me a better understanding of how I could use MCS in the future. Everything was very useufl as I am new to the MCS data. Workshop was a great idea. Many things are much clearer now and I feel more confident in trying to work with these data. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/Conference.aspx?itemid=3258&itemTitle=Training+workshop%3a+Introduction+to+... |