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The National Child Development Study (NCDS) is a continuing, multi-disciplinary longitudinal study which follows the lives of 17,415 people born in England, Scotland and Wales from 17,205 women during the week of 3–9 March 1958. The results from this study helped reduce infant mortality and were instrumental in improving maternity services in ...
A study of working mothers and early child development was influential in making the argument for increased maternity leave. [6] Another study on the impact of assets, such as savings and investments on future life chances, played a major part in the development of assets-based welfare policy, including the much-debated Child Trust Fund .
NCDS may refer to: Nabakrushna Choudhury Centre for Development Studies (NCDS), Bhubaneswar, think-tank of the Government of Odisha National Child Development Study , a longitudinal study in Great Britain
Longitudinal Study of Young People in England (LSYPE) Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) National Child Development Study (NCDS) It also encourages linkage with other datasets not directly supported by ESDS, such as the ONS Longitudinal Study and, in conjunction with the ESRC, works to facilitate access to new longitudinal data collections.
The 1986 survey was conducted by the International Centre for Child Studies and called Youthscan which was then taken over for the following surveys by the Social Statistics Research Unit (SSRU), now known as the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS). [3] By 2016 there were 770 papers and books published about the 1970 British Cohort Study. [4]
Two examples of cohort studies that have been going on for more than 50 years are the Framingham Heart Study and the National Child Development Study (NCDS), the most widely researched of the British birth cohort studies. Key findings of NCDS and a detailed profile of the study appear in the International Journal of Epidemiology. [6] The ...
James William Bruce Douglas [1] (1914 in Alperton, Middlesex – 1992) was a British social researcher. [2] Douglas was responsible for the National Survey of Health & Development that in turn led to other national birth cohort studies, such as the National Child Development Study, the 1970 British Cohort Study and the Millennium Cohort Study.
In Britain, much debate on social mobility has been generated by comparisons of the 1958 National Child Development Study and the 1970 Birth Cohort Study BCS70, [43] which compare intergenerational mobility in earnings between the 1958 and the 1970 UK cohorts, and claim that intergenerational mobility decreased substantially in this 12-year period.