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DDI2.5 XML CODEBOOK RECORD FOR STUDY NUMBER 6978 National Child Development Study: Age 50, Sweep 8, "Imagine You are 60", 2008-2009: 697810.5255/UKDA-SN-6978-1 University of London, Institute of Education, Centre for Longitudinal Studies Copyright Centre for Longitudinal Studies, UCL Social Research Institute Economic and Social Research Council UK Data Service 18 June 2012 ELDERLYFORECASTINGEXPECTATIONFAMILY LIFEPARTNERSHIPS (PERSONAL)EMPLOYMENTHEALTHRETIREMENTLEISURE TIME ACTIVITIESEXERCISE (PHYSICAL ACTIVITY)LIFE SATISFACTIONQUALITY OF LIFEWORK-LIFE BALANCETRAVELSOCIAL PARTICIPATIONVOLUNTARY WORK Labour and employmentRetirementGeneral health and well-beingElderlySocial behaviour and attitudes Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The National Child Development Study (NCDS) is a continuing longitudinal study that seeks to follow the lives of all those living in Great Britain who were born in one particular week in 1958. The aim of the study is to improve understanding of the factors affecting human development over the whole lifespan.  The NCDS has its origins in the Perinatal Mortality Survey (PMS) (the original PMS study is held at the UK Data Archive under SN 2137). This study was sponsored by the National Birthday Trust Fund and designed to examine the social and obstetric factors associated with stillbirth and death in early infancy among the 17,000 children born in England, Scotland and Wales in that one week. Selected data from the PMS form NCDS sweep 0, held alongside NCDS sweeps 1-3, under SN 5565.  Survey and Biomeasures Data (GN 33004): To date there have been nine attempts to trace all members of the birth cohort in order to monitor their physical, educational and social development. The first three sweeps were carried out by the National Children's Bureau, in 1965, when respondents were aged 7, in 1969, aged 11, and in 1974, aged 16 (these sweeps form NCDS1-3, held together with NCDS0 under SN 5565). The fourth sweep, also carried out by the National Children's Bureau, was conducted in 1981, when respondents were aged 23 (held under SN 5566). In 1985 the NCDS moved to the Social Statistics Research Unit (SSRU) - now known as the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS). The fifth sweep was carried out in 1991, when respondents were aged 33 (held under SN 5567). For the sixth sweep, conducted in 1999-2000, when respondents were aged 42 (NCDS6, held under SN 5578), fieldwork was combined with the 1999-2000 wave of the 1970 Birth Cohort Study (BCS70), which was also conducted by CLS (and held under GN 33229). The seventh sweep was conducted in 2004-2005 when the respondents were aged 46 (held under SN 5579), the eighth sweep was conducted in 2008-2009 when respondents were aged 50 (held under SN 6137) and the ninth sweep was conducted in 2013 when respondents were aged 55 (held under SN 7669).  Four separate datasets covering responses to NCDS over all sweeps are available. National Child Development Deaths Dataset: Special Licence Access (SN 7717) covers deaths; National Child Development Study Response and Outcomes Dataset (SN 5560) covers all other responses and outcomes; National Child Development Study: Partnership Histories (SN 6940) includes data on live-in relationships; and National Child Development Study: Activity Histories (SN 6942) covers work and non-work activities. Users are advised to order these studies alongside the other waves of NCDS. From 2002-2004, a Biomedical Survey was completed and is available under End User Licence (EUL) (SN 8731) and Special Licence (SL) (SN 5594). Proteomics analyses of blood samples are available under SL SN 9254. Linked Geographical Data (GN 33497):  A number of geographical variables are available, under more restrictive access conditions, which can be linked to the NCDS EUL and SL access studies.  Linked Administrative Data (GN 33396): A number of linked administrative datasets are available, under more restrictive access conditions, which can be linked to the NCDS EUL and SL access studies. These include a Deaths dataset (SN 7717) available under SL and the Linked Health Administrative Datasets (SN 8697) available under Secure Access. Additional Sub-Studies (GN 33562): In addition to the main NCDS sweeps, further studies have also been conducted on a range of subjects such as parent migration, unemployment, behavioural studies and respondent essays. The full list of NCDS studies available from the UK Data Service can be found on the <a href="https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/series/series?id=2000032#!/access-data" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">NCDS</a> series access data webpage.   How to access genetic and/or bio-medical sample data from a range of longitudinal surveys: For information on how to access biomedical data from NCDS that are not held at the UKDS, see the <a href="https://cls.ucl.ac.uk/data-access-training/genetic-data-and-biological-samples/" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CLS Genetic data and biological samples</a> webpage. Further information about the full NCDS series can be found on the <a href="https://cls.ucl.ac.uk/cls-studies/1958-national-child-development-study/" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Centre for Longitudinal Studies</a> website.  The NCDS8 Imagine You are 60 study comprises responses to an open-ended question asked at the end of the paper self-completion questionnaire fielded in NCDS8: "Imagine that you are now 60 years old... please write a few lines about the life you are leading (your interests, your home life, your health and well-being and any work you may be doing)." This question parallels another asked of the cohort members at NCDS2 when they were 11 years old, who then wrote about their imagined life at age 25 (see under SN 8313). The question could potentially be used as a way to code for cohort members' pessimism or optimism about the future, and the extent to which they are planning for the future. It could also be of methodological use and inform the design of future sweeps by providing evidence of some of the key concerns of cohort members at this point in the life course. Asking a question such as this on a longitudinal study will, in subsequent sweeps of the study, potentially allow comparisons to be made between actual circumstances at this future point and the future as imagined at the age of 50. Of the cohort members participating in NCDS8, some 7,383 provided responses to the question. The core aims of NCDS8 were to update the life history information collected in previous NCDS waves and to collect new information to help understand the ageing process. The main NCDS8 data are held under SN 6137.Main Topics: These responses have been transcribed and anonymised, and are held within a text file. They may be analysed alongside wordcount and respondent demographic charactistics contained in the accompanying quantitative file. For further details, see the User Guide within the documentation (see table below). August 2008 - March 200931 July 200801 March 2009 Great Britain IndividualsFamilies/householdsNational Adults in Great Britain born in one particular week in 1958 (NCDS respondents were aged 50 at the time of NCDS8). TextNumeric Longitudinal/panel/cohort No sampling (total universe) Self-administered questionnaire The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the <a href="https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/app/uploads/cd137-enduserlicence.pdf" target="_blank">End User Licence Agreement</a>.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; andI agree not to link between the research identifiers supplied by the UK Data Service [NCDSID] and any other identifiers previously issued. 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