Summary information

Study title

Harmonised Height, Weight and BMI in Five Longitudinal Cohort Studies: 1970 British Cohort Study

Creator

Cohort and Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources

Study number / PID

8551 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-8551-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

The Cohort and Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources (CLOSER) project aims to maximise the use, value and impact of longitudinal research. It brings together leading longitudinal studies, the British Library and the UK Data Service, to stimulate interdisciplinary research, develop shared resources, provide training, and share expertise. Resources available from CLOSER include harmonised datasets (developed to facilitate cross-study comparisons) and CLOSER Discovery (a search engine that enables researchers to search and browse questionnaires and data from different longitudinal studies). The CLOSER website also includes a range of training materials focused on longitudinal studies and data. CLOSER is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and is based at the UCL Institute of Education.

The CLOSER Work Package 1 provides data harmonisation of anthropometric measures between the National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD), National Child Development Study (NCDS), 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70), Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), and the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS).


The Harmonised Height, Weight and BMI in Five Longitudinal Cohort Studies: 1970 British Cohort Study provides the harmonised data on height, weight and BMI for BCS70.


Main Topics:
This study covers three harmonised anthropometric measures: 
  • height
  • weight
  • BMI


Methodology

Data collection period

Not available

Country

Great Britain

Time dimension

Longitudinal/panel/cohort

Analysis unit

National
Individuals

Universe

All births in England, Wales, and Scotland during one week in 1970.

Sampling procedure

No sampling (total universe)

Kind of data

Numeric

Data collection mode

Compilation/Synthesis

Funding information

Grant number

ES/K000357/1

Access

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

2019

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.

Additional conditions of use apply:

Additional Agreement on Conditions of Use

Confidentiality

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 [CLOSERID] and any other identifiers previously issued.