Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) began in 1970 when data were collected about the births and families of babies born in the United Kingdom in one particular week in 1970. Since then, there have been nine further full data collection exercises in order to monitor the cohort members' health, education, social and economic circumstances. These took place when respondents were aged 5 in 1975, aged 10 in 1980, aged 16 in 1986, aged 26 in 1996, aged 30 in 1999-2000 (SN 5558), aged 34 in 2004-2005, aged 42 in 2012 and aged 46 in 2016-18. A range of sub-sample and supplementary surveys have also been conducted, and a separate dataset covering response to BCS70 over all waves is available under SN 5641, 1970 British Cohort Study Response Dataset, 1970-2012.Further information about the BCS70 and may be found on the Centre for Longitudinal Studies website. As well as BCS70, the CLS now also conducts the NCDS series.How to access genetic and/or bio-medical sample data from a range of longitudinal surveys:For information on how to access biomedical data from BCS70 that are not held at the UKDS, see the CLS Genetic data and biological samples webpage.
The BCS70 linked Scottish Medical Records (SMR) datasets include data files from the Information Services Division (ISD) part of the NHS National Services Scotland database for those cohort members who provided consent to health data linkage in the Age 42 sweep.The SMR database contains information about all hospital admissions in Scotland. The following linked HES datasets are available:SN 8768: 1970 British Cohort Study: Linked Administrative Data, Prescribing Information System, Scottish Medical Records 2009-2015: Secure Access (PIS) SN 8769: 1970 British Cohort Study: Linked Administrative Data, Maternity Attendance, Scottish Medical Records 1984-2016: Secure Access (SMR02)SN 8770: 1970 British Cohort Study: Linked Administrative Data, Inpatient Attendance, Scottish Medical Records 1981-2016: Secure Access (SMR01)SN 8771 (this study): 1970 British Cohort Study: Linked Administrative Data, Outpatient Attendance, Scottish Medical Records, 1981-2016: Secure Access (SMR00)Researchers who require access to more than one dataset need to apply for them individually.Further information about the SMR database can be found on the Information Services Division Scotland SMR Datasets webpage.
Main Topics:
Health; operations; medical records; outpatients
No sampling (total universe)
Compilation/Synthesis