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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 ...
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
The Nabakrushna Choudhury Centre for Development Studies is a public policy think-tank of the state of Odisha. [2] It conducts research in the disciplines of Economics, Sociology and Social Anthropology. It is jointly funded by the Government of India and the Government of Odisha. It assists the Odisha Government in research, planning, training.
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 .
National Child Development Study [ edit ] 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 ]
GUiNZ is New Zealand's largest ongoing longitudinal study. It follows approximately 11% of all NZ children born between 2009 and 2010. [22] The study aims to look in depth at the health and well-being of children (and their parents) growing up in NZ. Growing Up in Scotland (GUS) Cohort Scotland 2003 14,000 Scotland Health and Retirement Study ...
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]
On December 12, 2014, the National Children's Study closed, after an expert review committee advised the NIH Director that moving forward with the larger Main Study would not be the best way to add to the understanding of how environmental and genetic factors influence child health and development.