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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 .
The NCB's most important project under her leadership was the National Child Development Study, a longitudinal study of 17,000 British children that was initiated by Dr. Neville Butler in his Perinatal Mortality Survey of 1958 and began officially under the auspices of the NCB in 1964. [5]
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.
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]
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.
Test 2 – Sentence Completion consisting of forms A and B and a manual of instruction [40] [41] These were famously used in the National Child Development Study (a longitudinal study), where the tests were applied on the sample children born in 1958, when they reached age seven in 1965. [42]
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; Nortel Certifications