Cohort profile: UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS)

The UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) is an observational, multidisciplinary cohort study that was set up to follow the lives of children born at the turn of the new century. The MCS is nationally representative and 18 552 families (18 827 children) were recruited to the cohort in the first sweep. Th...

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Published in:International journal of epidemiology Vol. 43; no. 6; p. 1719
Main Authors: Connelly, Roxanne, Platt, Lucinda
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: England 01.12.2014
Subjects:
Adolescent
Alcohol Drinking - epidemiology
Breast Feeding - statistics & numerical data
Child
Child Development
Child, Preschool
Cognition
Cohort Studies
Data Collection
Diarrhea - epidemiology
Educational Status
Female
Hospitalization - statistics & numerical data
Humans
Infant
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine - therapeutic use
Mothers - psychology
Mothers - statistics & numerical data
Patient Preference
Pediatric Obesity - epidemiology
Pneumonia - epidemiology
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Complications - epidemiology
Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects - epidemiology
Prospective Studies
Social Class
Stress, Psychological - epidemiology
Stress, Psychological - psychology
United Kingdom - epidemiology
Virus Diseases - prevention & control
Longitudinal Data
UK
Cohort Study
ISSN:1464-3685, 1464-3685
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Summary:The UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) is an observational, multidisciplinary cohort study that was set up to follow the lives of children born at the turn of the new century. The MCS is nationally representative and 18 552 families (18 827 children) were recruited to the cohort in the first sweep. There have currently been five main sweeps of data collection, at ages 9 months and 3, 5, 7 and 11 years. A further sweep of data collection is planned for age 14 years. A range of health-related data have been collected as well as measures concerning child development, cognitive ability and educational attainment. The data also include a wealth of information describing the social, economic and demographic characteristics of the cohort members and their families. In addition, the MCS data have been linked to administrative data resources including health records. The MCS provides a unique and valuable resource for the analysis of health outcomes and health inequalities. The MCS data are freely available to bona fide researchers under standard access conditions via the UK Data Service (http://ukdataservice.ac.uk) and the MCS website provides detailed information on the study (http://www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/mcs).
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ISSN:1464-3685
1464-3685
DOI:10.1093/ije/dyu001