ALSPAC
Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children...
Description
Based at the University of Bristol, the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), also known as Children of the 90s, is a world-leading birth cohort study. Between April 1991 and December 1992 we recruited more than 14,000 pregnant...
General Design
- Type
- Cohort study
- Cohort type
- Population cohort
- Data collection type
- Retrospective, Prospective
- Design
- Longitudinal
- Start/End data collection
- 1990 until 1992
- Design paper
- Cohort Profile: the 'children of the 90s'--the index offspring of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children.
Population
- Countries
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)
- Number of participants
- 14541
Organisations
Lead organisations
- University of Bristol (UOB)United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)
Contributors
Subpopulations
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Collection events
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Datasets
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Networks
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Publications
Access conditions
- Data use conditions
- not for profit, non commercial use only
- Release type
- Closed dataset
- Release description
- Released once data collected and cleaned
Funding & Acknowledgements
- Funding
- “The UK Medical Research Council and Wellcome (Grant ref: 217065/Z/19/Z) and the University of Bristol provide core support for ALSPAC. This publication is the work of the authors and <INSERT NAMES> will serve as guarantors for the contents of this paper.” In addition, you are expected to acknowledge the grant(s) which supported the collection of the primary exposure(s) and outcome(s) used in your study and any other grants in the checklist, which are pertinent to your study. The following sentences should be included with the above section: “A comprehensive list of grants funding (PDF, 330KB) is available on the ALSPAC website. This research was specifically funded by <INSERT DETAILS FOR SPECIFIC PROJECT(S) WHERE APPROPRIATE, including grant number(s)>.”
- Acknowledgements
- We are extremely grateful to all the families who took part in this study, the midwives for their help in recruiting them, and the whole ALSPAC team, which includes interviewers, computer and laboratory technicians, clerical workers, research scientists, volunteers, managers, receptionists and nurses.