Summary information

Study title

Millennium Cohort Study: Linked Health Administrative Data (Scottish Medical Records), Scottish Immunisation and Recall System, 2000-2015: Secure Access

Creator

University College London, UCL Institute of Education, Centre for Longitudinal Studies

NHS Digital

Study number / PID

8711 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-8711-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Background: The Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) is a large-scale, multi-purpose longitudinal dataset providing information about babies born at the beginning of the 21st century, their progress through life, and the families who are bringing them up, for the four countries of the United Kingdom. The original objectives of the first MCS survey, as laid down in the proposal to the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) in March 2000, were:to chart the initial conditions of social, economic and health advantages and disadvantages facing children born at the start of the 21st century, capturing information that the research community of the future will requireto provide a basis for comparing patterns of development with the preceding cohorts (the National Child Development Study, held at the UK Data Archive under GN 33004, and the 1970 Birth Cohort Study, held under GN 33229)to collect information on previously neglected topics, such as fathers' involvement in children's care and developmentto focus on parents as the most immediate elements of the children's 'background', charting their experience as mothers and fathers of newborn babies in the year 2000, recording how they (and any other children in the family) adapted to the newcomer, and what their aspirations for her/his future may beto emphasise intergenerational links including those back to the parents' own childhoodto investigate the wider social ecology of the family, including social networks, civic engagement and community facilities and services, splicing in geo-coded data when availableAdditional objectives subsequently included for MCS were:to provide control cases for the national evaluation of Sure Start (a government programme intended to alleviate child poverty and social exclusion)to provide samples of adequate size to analyse and compare the smaller countries of the United Kingdom, and include disadvantaged areas of...

HealthHealth care services and policies

MEDICAL TREATMENT METHODSIMMUNIZATIONSOCIAL DISADVANTAGEILL HEALTHVACCINATION REGISTERSMEDICAL DIAGNOSISMEDICAL CAREPATIENTSPUBLIC HEALTHMEDICAL CENTRESHEALTH

Data collection period

Not available

Country

Scotland

Time dimension

Longitudinal/panel/cohort

Analysis unit

Individuals

National

Universe

The sample population for MCS was drawn from all live births in the United Kingdom over 12 months (from 1 September 2000 in England and Wales and for 59 weeks from 22 November 2000 in Scotland and Northern Ireland). This dataset contains those for whom consent was given for data sharing during sweep 4 and who had ever lived in Scotland.

Sampling procedure

No sampling (total universe)

Kind of data

Numeric

Data collection mode

Routinely collected medical data

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

2020

Terms of data access

The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.

Commercial use is not permitted.

Use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. Users must apply for access via a Secure Access application.

Approved users must complete specialist training.

Users must be based in the UK when accessing data.

The Data Collection must be accessed via a secure virtual private network in a safe environment approved by the UK Data Service.

Users should indicate on their ESRC Research Proposal form all Safeguarded dataset(s) that they wish to access alongside the study (selected from the MCS series page).

Additional conditions of use apply:

I agree not to use nor attempt to use the Data Collections to identify the individuals from which the study sample was selected, nor to claim to have done so.

I agree not to link between the research identifiers supplied by the UK Data Service [MCSID] and any other identifiers previously issued.

Linkage to explicit low-level Scottish geographies is not permitted, therefore users are not allowed to apply for the following studies:

SN 7758 - Millennium Cohort Study: Geographical Identifiers, First Survey: Secure Access
SN 7759 - Millennium Cohort Study: Geographical Identifiers, Second Survey: Secure Access
SN 7760 - Millennium Cohort Study: Geographical Identifiers, Third Survey: Secure Access
SN 7761 - Millennium Cohort Study: Geographical Identifiers, Fourth Survey: Secure Access
SN 7762 - Millennium Cohort Study: Geographical Identifiers, Fifth Survey, 2001 Census Boundaries: Secure Access
SN 7763 - Millennium Cohort Study: Geographical Identifiers, Fifth Survey, 2011 Census Boundaries: Secure Access
SN 8231 - Millennium Cohort Study: Geographical Identifiers, Sixth Survey, 2001 Census Boundaries: Secure Access
SN 8232 - Millennium Cohort Study: Geographical Identifiers, Sixth Survey, 2011 Census Boundaries: Secure Access
SN 5724 - Millennium Cohort Study, 2001-2003: Hospital of Birth: Special Licence Access.

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