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Housing conditions and birth outcomes: The National Child Development Study
Environmental Research, 2018Despite their importance to respiratory and other health outcomes, housing conditions have been little-studied with respect to perinatal outcomes.1927 participants in the British National Child Development Study reported on housing conditions and pregnancy outcomes, including presence/severity of mold/dampness; type of heating; and whether remodeling ...
E. Harville, F. Rabito
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A review of child health in the 1958 birth cohort: National Child Development Study.
Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 1992Summary.In the week 3–9 March 1958, 98% of all births in England, Scotland and Wales (approximately 17000) were studied in the Perinatal Mortality Survey. The follow‐up of surviving children, known as the National Child Development Study, comprises four major sweeps at ages 7, 11, 16 and 23. Medical examinations were conducted at each age, except at 23
C. Power
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Bullying, education and earnings: Evidence from the National Child Development Study
Economics of Education Review, 2008Abstract We explore the effect of bullying at school on the educational attainment of a sample of individuals drawn from the British National Child Development Study (NCDS). Our empirical findings suggest that school bullying has an adverse effect on human capital accumulation both at and beyond school. Moreover; the impact of bullying on educational
Sarah Brown, K. Taylor
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Early employment careers of people with disabilities in the National Child Development Study
WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation, 2002{\it Objectives:} To compare the early employment careers of people with disabilities and their non-disabled contemporaries. {\it Study design:} The employment of 436 people with disabilities was investigated between the ages of 23 and 33. The sample were part of a continuing longitidinal study, the National Child Development Study (NCDS), of some 17,
D. Pilling
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The smoking habits of 16-year-olds in the National Child Development Study.
Public Health, 1978The smoking habits of adolescents of 16 years in the National Child Development Study were examined in relation to social and other variables. The data, collected in 1974, suggested that frequencies had not changed substantially over the previous decade and supported the findings of other studies of strong connections with certain factors such as ...
R. Pearson, K. Richardson
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Telling a modest story: accounts of men's upward mobility from the National Child Development Study.
The British Journal of Sociology, 2011AbstractWhile the pattern of social mobility in postwar Britain has been extensively studied, revealing considerable upward mobility, much less is known about the subjective dimension to mobility. In this article, we employ a new sample of in‐depth interviews with 50‐year old men from the National Child Development Study to examine in detail the link ...
Andrew Miles, M. Savage, F. Bühlmann
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Public Health, 1976
Amongst 16,000 children in the National Child Development Study, the prevalence of ascertained handicaps was 27·8 per 1000 at the age of 11 years in 1969, child loss from death between 4 weeks and 11 due to congenital malformations and malignancy had amounted to 4·7 per 1000.
C. Peckham, R. Pearson
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Amongst 16,000 children in the National Child Development Study, the prevalence of ascertained handicaps was 27·8 per 1000 at the age of 11 years in 1969, child loss from death between 4 weeks and 11 due to congenital malformations and malignancy had amounted to 4·7 per 1000.
C. Peckham, R. Pearson
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Educational Research, 1998
The National Child Development Study (NCDS) is used to investigate factors which affect children's educational performance over time. Multilevel modelling techniques are used on a subset of the NCDS to investigate variation in educational performance in 11 regions in the UK, and in local education authorities within these regions.
R. McNiece, F. Jolliffe
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The National Child Development Study (NCDS) is used to investigate factors which affect children's educational performance over time. Multilevel modelling techniques are used on a subset of the NCDS to investigate variation in educational performance in 11 regions in the UK, and in local education authorities within these regions.
R. McNiece, F. Jolliffe
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