Detailed major UK birth cohorts timeline
', 'link': 'http://www.nshd.mrc.ac.uk/', 'color': '#B74012', 'textColor' : 'black' }, {'start': '1958', 'end': '2011', 'title': 'National Child Development Study (NCDS)', 'description': 'The National Child Development Study (NCDS) is a continuing, multi-disciplinary longitudinal study which takes as its subjects all the people born in England, Scotland and Wales in one week in March 1958. NCDS has its origins in the Perinatal Mortality Survey. Sponsored by the National Birthday Trust Fund, this was designed to examine the social and obstetric factors associated with stillbirth and death in early infancy among the children born in Great Britain in that one week. Information was gathered from almost 17,500 babies.Detailed major UK birth cohorts timeline
', 'link': 'http://www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/studies.asp?section=000100020003', 'color' : '#B74012' }, {'start': '1970', 'end': '2011', 'title': '1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70)', 'description': 'The 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) is a continuing, multi-disciplinary longitudinal study which takes as its subjects all those living in England, Scotland and Wales who were born in one particular week in 1970. At this time, the study was named the British Births Survey (BBS), and it was sponsored by the National Birthday Trust Fund in association with the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. (Subjects from Northern Ireland, who had been included in the birth survey, were dropped from the study in all subsequent sweeps).Detailed major UK birth cohorts timeline
', 'link': 'http://www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/studies.asp?section=000100020002', 'color' : '#B74012' }, {'start': '2000', 'end': '2011', 'title': 'Millennium Cohort Study (MCS)', 'description': 'The MCS follows the lives of a sample of nearly 19,000 babies born between 1 September 2000 and 31 August 2001 in England and Wales, and between 22 November 2000 and 11 January 2002 in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Information has been collected from parents when the children were aged nine months and at around three years of age. The sample design allowed for disproportionate representation of families living in areas of child poverty, in the smaller countries of the UK and in areas with high ethnic minority populations in England.Detailed major UK birth cohorts timeline
', 'link': 'http://www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/studies.asp?section=000100020001', 'color' : '#B74012' }, {'start': '2007', 'end': '2011', 'title': 'Born in Bradford (BIB)', 'description': 'Born in Bradford is a groundbreaking research project that will follow the lives of over 10,000 Bradford babies over the next 20 years. ', 'link': 'http://www.borninbradford.nhs.uk', 'color': '#B74012', 'textColor' : 'black' }, {'start': '1999', 'end': '2011', 'title': 'Gateshead Millennium Study (GMS)', 'description': 'Mothers living in Gateshead who gave birth to children between June 1999 and May 2000 were asked to take part in two main studies; these studies were named the Feeding and Growth Study and the Iron Deficiency Study. In total 1,029 children were recruited.', 'link': 'http://www.ncl.ac.uk/gms/', 'color': '#B74012', 'textColor' : 'black' }, {'start': '2005', 'end': '2011', 'title': 'Growing Up in Scotland (GUS)', 'description': 'Growing Up in Scotland is a large-scale longitudinal social survey designed to examine the characteristics, circumstances and behaviours of children from birth to late adolescence (and possibly beyond). It will form a central part of the Scottish Governments strategy for the long-term monitoring and evaluation of its policies for children, with a specific focus on the early years.', 'link': 'http://www.growingupinscotland.org.uk/', 'color': '#B74012' }, {'start': '1989', 'end': '2011', 'title': 'Isle of Wight Birth Cohort', 'description': 'This study involves approximately 1,400 children who were born on the Isle of Wight from 1 January 1989 to 28 February 1990. The majority have been followed up at the ages of one, two, four and ten years to enable the natural history of asthma and allergies to be followed.', 'link': 'http://www.davidhideallergyresearch.co.uk/89study.html', 'color': '#B74012', 'textColor': 'black' }, {'start': '1990', 'end': '2010', 'title': 'Birth to Twenty (BT20)', 'description': 'Birth to Twenty, colloquially nicknamed Mandela's Children, is the largest and longest running study of child and adolescent health and development in Africa. The study follows 3273 children who were born in the metropolitan area of Johannesburg-Soweto in 1990. ', 'link': 'http://www.wits.ac.za/BirthTo20', 'color': 'green' }, {'start': '1997', 'end': '2011', 'title': 'Child Development Supplement (CDS) to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)', 'description': 'The Child Development Supplement (CDS) is a component of the PSID. From 1997, the PSID supplemented its main data collection with additional data on children aged 0-12 years and their parents. ', 'link': 'http://psidonline.isr.umich.edu/CDS/', 'color': 'green' }, {'start': '1986', 'end': '2011', 'title': 'Children and Young Adults of the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY97)', 'description': 'The Children and Young Adults study is a component of the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. From 1986, a separate survey of all children born to NLSY79 female respondents has run alongside the main study. The child survey includes assessments of each child as well as additional demographic and development information collected from either the mother or child. Biennially (since 1994), children ages 15 and older complete a lengthy child interview modelled on the NLSY79 questionnaire.Publications using Children and Young Adults
', 'link': 'http://www.bls.gov/nls/nlsy79ch.htm', 'color': 'green' }, {'start': '1995', 'end': '2011', 'title': 'Danish Longitudinal Survey of Children (DALSC)', 'description': 'The Danish Longitudinal Survey of Children (DALSC) was initiated in 1995 in order to provide basic representative information about the family conditions and development of Danish children. It is the first longitudinal study in Denmark which aims to monitor children from birth until adulthood. ', 'link': 'http://www.sfi.dk/dalsc', 'color': 'blue' }, {'start': '1997', 'end': '2011', 'title': 'Danish National Birth Cohort (DNBC)', 'description': 'The DNBC tracks a cohort of around 100,000 women, pregnant between 1997 and 2002.', 'link': 'http://www.ssi.dk/English/RandD/Epidemiology/DNBC/', 'color': 'blue' }, {'start': '2001', 'end': '2011', 'title': 'Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B)', 'description': 'The ECLS-B is a nationally (United States) representative sample of 14,000 children born in 2001. The children participating in the study came from diverse socioeconomic and racial/ethnic backgrounds with oversamples of Asian and Pacific Islander children, American Indian and Alaska Native children, Chinese children, twins, and low and very low birth weight children. ', 'link': 'http://nces.ed.gov/ecls/Birth.asp', 'color': 'green' }, {'start': '2011', 'title': 'French Longitudinal Study of Children (ELFE)', 'description': 'The Etude Longitudinale Française depuis l’Enfance (ELFE) is a birth cohort based on the INSEE Demographic Panel and will include 20,000 children born on specific days in 2011. ', 'link': 'http://www.elfe.ined.fr/', 'color': 'blue' }, {'start': '2004', 'end': '2011', 'title': 'Growing Up in Australia', 'description': 'Growing Up in Australia - the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) - is a major study following the development of 10,000 children and families from all parts of Australia. The study commenced in 2004 with two cohorts - families with children aged 4-5 years and families with infants aged 0-1 year. ', 'link': 'http://www.aifs.gov.au/growingup/', 'color': 'green' }, {'start': '2008', 'end': '2011', 'title': 'Growing Up in Ireland', 'description': 'Growing Up in Ireland - the National Longitudinal Study of Children (NLSC) - follows the progress of two cohorts of children: 8,500 nine-year-olds and 11,000 nine-month-olds.Publications using Growing Up in Ireland
', 'link': 'http://www.growingup.ie/', 'color': 'blue' }, {'start': '2011', 'title': 'National Children’s Study', 'description': 'The National Children’s Study will examine the effects of environmental influences on the health and development of more than 100,000 children across the United States, following them from before birth until age 21. ', 'link': 'http://www.nationalchildrensstudy.gov/', 'color': 'green' }, {'start': '1994', 'end': '2011', 'title': 'National Longitudinal Survey of Children & Youth (NLSCY)', 'description': 'The National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) is a long-term study of Canadian children that follows their development and well-being from birth to early adulthood. The NLSCY began in 1994 and is jointly conducted by Statistics Canada and Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC), formerly known as Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC). ', 'link': 'http://www.statcan.gc.ca/cgi-bin/imdb/p2SV.pl?Function=getSurvey&SDDS=4450&lang=en&db=IMDB&dbg=f&adm=8&dis=2', 'color': 'green' }, {'start': '1998', 'end': '2011', 'title': 'Québec Longitudinal Study of Child Development (QLSCD)', 'description': 'The Québec Longitudinal Study of Child Development (QLSCD) continues to follow around 1,500 children on a biennial basis, collecting information from questionnaires and cognitive/psychometric assessments. ', 'link': 'http://www.iamillbe.stat.gouv.qc.ca/default_an.htm', 'color': 'green' } ] }