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Variable
UK Data Service variable record for:
1970 British Cohort Study: Twenty-One-Year Sample Survey, 1992
Variable Details
| Variable | vbc1c | ||||||||||||||||||
| Label | CHANGE - WRITING CLEARLY | ||||||||||||||||||
| Question text | People have a variety of skills. Some they use at work, others they use elsewhere. Some they are good at, others they are less good at. Some abilities and skills they have improved with practice, others they have not. How good are you at the skills listed below? Please answer questions a) b) and c) for each skill. Over the last 5 years (since March 1987) would you say your skill has got better, not changed, or got worse? | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Disclaimer | Please note that these frequencies are not weighted. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | 1970 British Cohort Study: Twenty-One-Year Sample Survey, 1992 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Interviewer Instructions | PLEASE TICK ONE BOX IN COLUMN C BELOW FOR EACH SKILL. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Universe | A clustered 10% sample of all respondents to an earlier BCS70 follow-up, living in England and Wales during 1992, who were not known to have died, emigrated or refused.;National | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sampling | One-stage cluster sample;A simple random sample of the BCS70 cohort | ||||||||||||||||||
| Study Type | Longitudinal/panel/cohort |
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