| SN: |
6978 |
| Title: |
National Child Development Study: Sweep 8, 2008-2009: Imagine You are 60 |
| Alternative title: |
NCDS8 |
| Persistent identifier: |
10.5255/UKDA-SN-6978-1 |
| Series: |
National Child Development Study, 1958- |
| Depositor(s): |
University of London. Institute of Education. Centre for Longitudinal Studies |
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Principal investigator(s):
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University of London. Institute of Education. Centre for Longitudinal Studies
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| Sponsor(s): |
Economic and Social Research Council
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| Other acknowledgements: |
The Centre for Longitudinal Studies would like to thank all the cohort members who generously gave their time to participate in this project and without whom this survey would not have been possible. |
National Child Development Study - Major studies
General - Employment and labour
Retirement - Employment and labour
General - Health
Social attitudes and behaviour - Society and culture
Elderly - Social stratification and groupings
Family life and marriage - Social stratification and groupings
Social and occupational mobility - Social stratification and groupings
The core aims of the NCDS 2008-2009 study (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.
In addition, an open-ended question was 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 5790). 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. For further details, see the User Guide within the documentation (see table below).
Further information about the full NCDS series can be found on the Centre for Longitudinal Studies website.
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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).
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Dates of fieldwork:
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August 2008, March 2009 |
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Country:
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Great Britain
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Spatial units:
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Government Office Regions
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Observation units:
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Individuals
Families and households
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Kind of data:
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Textual
Numeric
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Universe:
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National
Adults in Great Britain born in one particular week in 1958 (NCDS respondents were aged 50 at the time of NCDS8).
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Time dimensions:
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Longitudinal/panel/cohort
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Sampling procedures:
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No sampling (total universe)
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Number of units:
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9,790 cohort members participated in NCDS8. Of these, 7,383 responsed to the open-ended question. Data for all 9,790 participants are included in the files, and therefore the 2,407 cases that did not complete the open-ended question have blank lines in the text file.
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Method of data collection:
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Self-completion
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Weighting:
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No weighting used for question responses. See main NCDS8 study for details of weighting.
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A searchable bibliography may be found on the Publications page of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies website.
Kallis, C. (2005) CLS Cohort Studies Data Note 5: partnership histories in NCDS5 and NCDS6, Centre for Multilevel Modelling, Bedford Group for Lifecourse and Statistical Studies, Institute of Education, University of London.
Steele, F. et al. (2005) 'The relationship between childbearing and transitions from marriage and cohabitation in Britain', Demography,42.
Steele, F. et al. (2005) 'Changes in the relationship between the outcomes of cohabiting partnerships and fertility among young British women: evidence from the 1958 and 1970 Birth Cohort Studies', paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Philadelphia, 2005.
