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CHILD DEVELOPMENT STUDY (NCDS): CHILDREN OF THE BRITISH NCDS
Description:
The National Child Development Study (NCDS) is one of Britain's birth cohort studies, surveying all the children born in U.K. in a week of March 1958 (a complete enumeration, not a sample). They have been re-interviewed several times over the past forty years: first, at the time of their birth (1958), at ages 7 (1965), 11 (1969), 16 (1974), 22 (1981), and 33 (1991). At the 1991 survey of the cohort members, a random one-third of their biological children were also surveyed and administered most of the cognitive and social-emotional tests that were given to the children of the NLSY sample. The NCDS has extensive information about the parent-cohort member as well as the test scores and information about the 4229 children. Information includes: development of children from birth to early adolescence, child care, medical care, health, preschool activities, school readiness, parental involvement, cognitive and social growth; influence of the child on the parents' employment, union formation, and subsequent fertility behavior. The 1991 child-parent data are currently available on CD in the U.S. and U.K.
