National Child Development Study and 1970 British Cohort Study: Introductory workshop

Institute of Education, University of London
Thursday 10 May 2012

This one-day workshop which will introduce the 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS) and the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70), focusing on the newly available data from the surveys carried out in 2008 when the study members were aged 50 and 38 years respectively.

For further details and to book a place, please visit: http://www.esds.ac.uk/news/eventdetail.asp?id=3170

National Child Development Study and 1970 British Cohort Study: Introductory workshop

Location: Institute of Education, University of London
Date: Thursday 10 May 2012

Bookings are now open for the above workshop which will introduce the 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS) and the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70), focusing on the newly available data from the surveys carried out in 2008 when the study members were aged 50 and 38 years respectively.

This event is designed for new and intending users of data from the studies and is jointly organised by the ESDS and the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) at the Institute of Education.

The taught component of the workshop includes presentations on:

• survey design
• data coverage and methodology
• patterns of attrition
• using the data dictionaries
• accessing the data

The hands-on component will provide participants with the opportunity to carry out SPSS or Stata analyses using sub-sets of NCDS/BCS70 data, with support from members of the CLS cohort studies team.

For further details and to book a place, please visit: http://www.esds.ac.uk/news/eventdetail.asp?id=3170

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