BCS70
1970 British Cohort Study...
Description
The 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) follows the lives of around 17,000 people born in England, Scotland and Wales in a single week of 1970. Over the course of participants’ lives, BCS70 has collected information on health, physical, educational and...
General Design
- Type
- Cohort study
- Cohort type
- Population cohort
- Design
- Longitudinal
- Design description
- BCS70 is a longitudinal study following cohort members born in one week in 1970. As well as cohort members themselves, the study has at different points collected information from parents and teachers as well as collecting information about partners and cohort members’ own children. Data is mainly collected through face to face interviews but has also been collected by post, telephone, web and video call. Medical examinations took place in childhood sweeps and bio-measures were collected by nurses in the Age 46 survey. Survey sweeps have taken place at: 1970 – Birth (face to face); 1980 – Age 10 (face to face); 1986 – Age 16 (face to face); 1996 – Age 26 (postal); 2000 – Age 30 (face to face); 2004 – Age 34 (face to face); 2008 – Age 38 (telephone); 2012 – Age 42 (face to face); 2016 – Age 46 (face to face – biomedical sweep); 2021- Age 51 (face to face/video/web)
- Start/End data collection
- 1970 (ongoing)
Population
- Countries
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)
- Number of participants
- 17000
- Population age groups
- All ages
Networks
Part of networks...