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CLScohort YouTube channel: Resources for mixed method and qualitative research available from the 1958 birth cohort study | Linking quantitative and qualitative data from the 1958 National Child Development Study

SN	Study Description	Explore Online	Doc	Download / Order
6691	Social Participation and Identity, 2007-2010: Combining Quantitative Longitudinal Data with a Qualitative Investigation of a Sub-Sample of the 1958 National Child Development Study	-
6752	National Child Development Study: Understanding Individual Behaviour, 2010
5560	National Child Development Study Response and Deaths Dataset, 1958-2009	-
6137	National Child Development Study: Sweep 8, 2008-2009
6978	National Child Development Study: Sweep 8, 2008-2009: Imagine You are 60	-
6940	National Child Development Study: Partnership Histories, 1974-2008
6942	National Child Development Study: Activity Histories, 1974-2008
5579	National Child Development Study: Sweep 7, 2004-2005
5217	National Child Development Study: Sweeps 5-6 Partnership Histories, 1974-2000	-
5578	National Child Development Study: Sweep 6, 1999-2000
5600	National Child Development Study: Employment Histories, 1974-2000	-
4992	National Child Development Study: 37-Year Sample Survey, 1995
4324	National Child Development Study: Sweep 5 Parent Migration Dataset, 1991
5567	National Child Development Study: Sweep 5, 1991
2364	National Child Development Study: Teaching Sets, 1958-1981	-
5566	National Child Development Study: Sweep 4, 1981, and Public Examination Results, 1978
2025	National Child Development Study: Sweep 4 Feasibility Study and Tobacco Research Council Study, 1978	-
2024	Warnock Study of Handicapped School Leavers, 1976	-
1858	Social Consequences of Unemployment, 1964-1971	-
5565	National Child Development Study: Childhood Data, Sweeps 0-3, 1958-1974
5790	National Child Development Study: Sample of Essays (Sweep 2, Age 11), 1969	-

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Do comprehensive schools reduce social mobility?
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Does childhood poverty affect respiratory health in mid-life?
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