Study title
National Child Development Study and 1970 British Cohort Study Educational Qualifications Histories, 1981-2009
Creator
Study number / PID
8127 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-8127-1 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Abstract
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The National Child Development Study and 1970 British Cohort Study Educational Qualifications Histories, 1981-2009 provides a continuous and comprehensive account of National Child Development Study (NCDS) and 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) cohort members’ educational qualifications histories between the ages of 16 and 38. The two data-sets are fully harmonised, which facilitates cross-cohort comparison.
The main objectives of the project from which this study has originated were twofold: (i) to examine the importance of education, relative to that of other factors, in determining individuals’ chances of social mobility in Britain over recent decades; (ii) to investigate the social processes through which education actually impacts on mobility chances. More information about this project can be found on its Gateway to Research page.
Main Topics:
This study includes two datasets, one derived from the BCS70 and one the other one from the NCDS. Both are providing detailed information on the following: cohort members' sex; date and age cohort members left full-time education; type, year and date of academic qualification; highest academic qualification attained; type, year and date of occupational qualification; highest vocational qualification attained; type, year and date of vocational / occupational (combined) qualification attained; highest (academic and vocational combined) qualification obtained.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
01/03/2012 - 01/11/2015
Country
Time dimension
Analysis unit
Universe
People in Great Britain born in one particular week in 1958 (NCDS) or 1970 (BCS).
Sampling procedure
Kind of data
Data collection mode
Funding information
Grant number
ES/I038187/1
Access
Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
2017
Terms of data access
The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.
Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.
Personal/genealogical use of these data is not permitted.
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; and
I agree not to link between the research identifiers supplied by the UK Data Service [NCDSID] and any other identifiers previously issued.
Related publications
- Bukodi, E., Goldthorpe, J. and Kuha, J. (2016) 'The pattern of social fluidity within the British class structure: A topological model', Journal of Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 180, 3, 841-862, https://doi.org/10.1111/rssa.12234.
- Bukodi, E. (2017) 'Linking the macro to the micro: a multidimensional approach to educational inequalities in four European countries', European Societies, 20, 1, 26-64, https://doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2017.1329934.
- Bukodi, E. and Goldthorpe, J. (2016) 'Educational attainment - relative or absolute - as a mediator of intergenerational class mobility in Britain', Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 43, 5-15, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2015.01.003.
- Bukodi, E., Erikson, R. and Goldthorpe, J. (2014) 'The effects of social origins and cognitive ability on educational attainment: Evidence from Britain and Sweden', Acta Sociologica, 57, 4, 293-310, https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0001699314543803.
- Bukodi, E. (2016) 'Cumulative inequalities over the life-course: Life-long learning and social mobility in Britain', Journal of Social Policy, 46, 2, 367-404, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279416000635.
- Bukodi, E., Goldthorpe, J., Halpin, B. and Waller, L. (2016) 'Is Education Now Class Destiny? Class Histories across Three British Birth Cohorts', European Sociological Review,, 32, 6, 835-49, https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcw041.
- Bukodi, E. and Goldthorpe, J. (2012) 'Decomposing ‘Social Origins’: The Effects of Parents’ Class, Status, and Education on the Educational Attainment of Their Children', European Sociological Review, 29, 5, 1024-1039, https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcs079.