Millennium Cohort Study
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Millennium Cohort Study
IRAS ID
153496
Contact name
Emla Fitzsimons
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Institute of Education
Research summary
The UK Millennium Cohort Study is a multidisciplinary research project following the lives of over 19,000 children in the UK born in 2000/1. It is the most recent of Britain's world-renowned national longitudinal birth cohort studies. Each follows a large number of individuals born at a particular time through the course of their lives, charting the effects of events and circumstances in early life on outcomes and achievements later on.
The study has been tracking the Millennium children through their early childhood years and plans to follow them into adulthood. The five surveys of the MCS carried out so far at 9 months (2001/2), 3 years (2003/4), 5 years (2006), 7 years (2008) and 11 years (2012) have built up a uniquely detailed picture of the children of the new century and their families. The study is carried out by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies at the Institute of Education, University of London. It is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and a consortium of UK Government departments.
This application seeks REC approval for the ongoing work of the study over the next five years. This work involves 1) Keeping in touch with and tracing cohort members 2) cleaning, documenting and providing access to the data for research and 3) linking data from administrative sources to survey data to increase the utility of the data for research and 4) other research activity.
Please note that a different study title, 'Child of the New Century', is used for study participants.
REC name
London - Hampstead Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
14/LO/0868
Date of REC Opinion
17 Jun 2014
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion