Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Resource Centre 2015-20

要求提供资金，以继续纵向研究中心（CLS），从2015年至2020年，作为ESRC资源中心负责三个英国出生队列研究。1958年的全国儿童发展研究（NCDS），1970年的英国队列研究（BCS 70）和千年队列研究（MCS）是主要的国家，实际上是国际数据资源，并形成了联合王国的纵向研究组合的核心部分。这项建议建立在CLS作为队列维护、数据准备和文件编制、用户支持和参与、培训、能力建设和方法咨询的有效网站的现有优势之上。继续从这些队列中收集数据有很强的科学依据。每一项新的调查都增强了现有研究的价值，并允许进一步分析研究早期生活的经历和环境如何影响后来的结果。数据收集：我们的目标是收集2015年至2020年期间每个队列的数据：46岁和50岁的BCS 70，60岁的NCDS和17岁的MCS。NCDS和BCS 70现在各有大约10，000名成年受试者，并协调收集非常相似的信息，允许进行跨队列比较。2012年，对42岁的BCS 70成员进行了60分钟的面对面访谈调查，2013年，对55岁的NCDS队列进行了一次扫描，其中包括网络调查，然后对那些没有回答的人进行电话访谈。MCS大约每两年对儿童进行一次跟踪调查，直到2008年7岁的第四次调查。这项研究从近19，000名婴儿开始，最近收集了大约13，000名11岁儿童的数据。2014- 2015年对监控监成员的一次大规模调查正在拟订中，预计将涉及12 000人（这项调查已在以前的一项供资申请中涵盖）。跟踪群组：随着时间的推移，与三个群组的成员保持联系是最大限度地提高回复率的关键。CLS为每项研究维护地址数据库，我们最近通过使用BCS 70（42岁）和MCS（11岁）的NHS记录以及MCS（11岁）的国家学生数据库，扩展了我们对跟踪队列成员的管理数据的使用。由于这是非常成功的，我们计划在未来使用管理数据来跟踪所有三个队列。我们还将继续改进为每个队列成员建立的网站。传播和利用数据：我们有一个经过仔细考虑的策略，以确保队列研究的数据得到广泛用户的充分利用。将举行协商会议并设立工作组，以确保收集的数据与决策者和其他潜在用户相关。我们会举办工作坊和会议，宣传数据集，提供使用数据集的培训，以及分享分析结果。CLS网站提供数据文件和可搜索的书目，将继续对分享研究信息发挥重要作用。我们将开发和重新设计网站，通过谷歌分析对其使用进行仔细监控。事实证明，媒体对群组研究的报道是接触CLS的许多目标受众，包括决策者、从业人员和公众的有效途径。CLS将继续发布关于新出版物和调查结果的新闻稿，并将更多地使用社交媒体。我们还计划为MCS 14岁和17岁调查，NCDS 60岁调查和BCS 70岁46岁调查开展“新数据活动”，以提高对新可用数据的认识。影响力：CLS认识到监测、记录和宣传其研究影响的重要性，并制定了详细计划，以在新的资助期内扩大这项活动的范围。例如，我们将制作一系列案例研究，分析我们的工作对政策和实践的影响，并将在CLS网站上设立一个特别部分，以展示这种影响。

Funding is requested for the continuation of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS), from 2015-2020, as the ESRC resource centre responsible for three British birth cohort studies. The 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS), the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) and the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) are major national, indeed international, data resources and form a core part of the UK's portfolio of longitudinal studies. This proposal builds on the existing strengths of CLS as an efficient site for cohort maintenance, data preparation and documentation, user support and engagement, training, capacity building and methodological advice. There is a strong scientific rationale for continuing to gather data from these cohorts. Each new survey enhances the value of the existing study and allows for further analyses examining how experiences and circumstances in early life may impact on later outcomes. Data collection: We aim to collect data from each cohort between 2015 and 2020: BCS70 at age 46 and 50, NCDS at age 60 and MCS at age 17. NCDS and BCS70 now have about 10,000 adult subjects each, and are coordinated to collect very similar information, allowing cross-cohort comparisons. In 2012, there was a 60-minute, face-to-face interview survey of BCS70 members at age 42 and, in 2013, a sweep of the NCDS cohort at age 55 that involved a web survey followed by telephone interviews for those not responding. MCS followed children at roughly two-yearly intervals up to the fourth survey at age 7 in 2008. This study, starting out with nearly 19,000 babies, has most recently collected data on approximately 13,000 children at age 11. A major survey of MCS members in 2014-15 is under development, and is projected to reach 12,000 individuals (this survey has been covered by a previous funding application). Tracking cohorts: Keeping in touch with members of the three cohorts over time is key to maximising response rates. CLS maintains address databases for each study, and we have recently extended our use of administrative data for tracking cohort members by using NHS records on BCS70 (at age 42) and MCS (age 11) and the National Pupil Database on MCS (age 11). As this was highly successful we plan to use administrative data for tracking all three cohorts in future. We will also continue to improve the websites we have established for members of each cohort.Dissemination and Exploiting data: We have a carefully considered strategy for ensuring that data from the cohort studies are fully exploited by a wide range of users. Consultation conferences will be held, and working groups established, to ensure that the data collected are relevant to policymakers and other potential users. Workshops and conferences will be organised to publicise the datasets, provide training in their use, and to share the results of analyses. The CLS website, offering data documentation, and a searchable bibliography, will continue to be important for sharing information about the studies. We will develop and redesign the site, guided by careful monitoring of its use via Google Analytics. Media coverage of the cohort studies has proven to be an effective way of reaching many of CLS's target audiences, including policymakers, practitioners and the general public. CLS will continue to issue press releases on new publications and findings, and will make increasing use of social media. We also plan 'new data campaigns' for the MCS age 14 and 17 surveys, the NCDS age 60 survey, and the BCS70 age 46 survey, to raise awareness of newly available data. Impact: CLS recognises the importance of monitoring, recording and publicising the impact of its studies and has detailed plans for widening the scope of this activity during the new funding period. We will, for example, produce a series of case studies analysing the effect of our work on policy and practice and will establish a special section on the CLS website in order to showcase this impact.