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Variable
UK Data Service variable record for:
National Child Development Study: 37-Year Sample Survey, 1995
Variable Details
| Variable | nss1315 | ||||||||||||
| Label | Did basic skills problems cause difficulties in doing things you'd like to do in spare time | ||||||||||||
| Question text | I'd now like to ask you about some of the effects these problems have for you in your everyday life. Do they make it difficult for you to... get a new job if you want one, cope with a job if you have one, to get on and get promotion in a job, manage your household business, help children read or learn things, to do the kinds of things you'd like to do in your spare time, to communicate with official people, to get your point of view across when you need to, to do other things? | ||||||||||||
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| Disclaimer | Please note that these frequencies are not weighted. | ||||||||||||
| Location | National Child Development Study: 37-Year Sample Survey, 1995 | ||||||||||||
| Universe | A clustered 10% sample of the main NCDS cohort, i.e. all those living in England and Wales born in one particular week in 1958, who had participated in an earlier NCDS follow-up and were not known to have died, emigrated or refused.;National | ||||||||||||
| Sampling | One-stage cluster sample.;A simple random sample of the NCDS cohort. Twenty-five sampling points were used, based on interval sampling of all postcode areas in England and Wales, with a random starting point. | ||||||||||||
| Study Type | Longitudinal/panel/cohort conducted between the fifth and sixth full NCDS cohort surveys. |
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