Study title
Harmonised Height, Weight and BMI in Five Longitudinal Cohort Studies: Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children: Special Licence Access
Creator
Study number / PID
8208 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-8208-2 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
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: Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children: Special Licence Access provides the harmonised data on height, weight and BMI for ALSPC.
For the second edition (October 2019), revised data and documentation have been deposited.
Main Topics:
This study covers three harmonised anthropometric measures:
- height
- weight
- BMI
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
Not availableCountry
Time dimension
Analysis unit
Universe
The mother, partner and their study children with an estimated due date of between 1st April 1991 and 31st December 1992 born in the administrative county of Avon as defined at the time of recruitment.
Sampling procedure
Kind of data
Data collection mode
Funding information
Grant number
ES/K000357/1
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 is not permitted.
Use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. Users must apply for access via a Special Licence application.
Additional conditions of use apply:
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.