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Introduction to MCS Workshop

Millennium Cohort Study June 2015

What’s New in MCS5 & MCS6

Kate Smith Centre for Longitudinal Studies, UCL Institute of Education MCS Workshop June 2015

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The Millennium Cohort Study content at a glance to MCS5

MCS 1 MCS2 MCS 3 MCS4 MCS5

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2001/2 2003/4 2005/6 2008/9 2012/13 9 months AGE 3 AGE 5 AGE 7 AGE11

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Mother Mother Mother Mother Mother

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Father Father Father Father Father

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Child Child Child Child Older Siblings Older Siblings Teachers Teachers Education records Education records Birth records Medical records Medical records Medical records Economic records  18,552 15,590 15,246 13,857 13287

9m Age 3 Age 5 Age 7 Age 11 Interview (and self- completion) with both resident parents      Cognitive assessments     Physical measurements     Child self-completion   Saliva Sample  Older Siblings   Interviewer Observations     Teacher Survey   

Content of MCS Surveys

MCS Cohort Member Cognitive Assessments

Age 3 Age 5 Age 7 Age 11

BAS Naming Vocabulary The story of Sally & Ann The story of Sally & Ann BAS Verbal Similarities Bracken School Readiness Assessment: Colours Letters Sizes Comparisons BAS Naming vocabulary Word Reading CANTAB Spatial Working Memory BAS Picture Similarities Progress in Maths CANTAB Cambridge Gambling Task BAS Pattern Construction BAS Pattern Construction

Age 11 Child Assessments

• BAS Verbal Similarities
• 2 Cambridge Cognition Assessments:
• Memory task (officially named the Spatial Working Memory

task)

• Decision-making task (officially named the Cambridge

Gambling task)

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BAS Verbal Similarities

Age 11 Memory Task

Age 11 Decision Making Task

MCS Physical Measurements & Samples

Age 3 Age 5 Age 7 Age 11

Height Height Height Height Weight Weight Weight Weight Saliva Sample (Hygiene hypothesis) Waist circumference Waist circumference Body Fat Body Fat Activity Monitor Teeth

Age 11 Survey: Child Self Completion

• 28 page paper self-completion
• Family & friends
• School
• Things done outside school
• The area they live in
• Things they may have done – anti social behaviour
• Things they may have tried – incl. alcohol & smoking
• How they feel
• Growing up

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Age 11 Survey: Child Self Completion

Age 11 Child Consent

At age11 MCS formalised the consent process for children for first time. Parents' asked for written consent to approach child to give their own permission to take part in all child elements. Verbal consent from cohort child for:

• cognitive assessments
• physical measurements
• self completion questionnaire
• to approach class teacher for teacher survey

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Age 11 Teacher Survey (E & W only)

• Permission sought from parents & child to contact child’s class teacher & from

child

• Postal self-completion questionnaire:
• Study child’s abilities
• Study child’s behaviour
• Study child profile
• Study child’s parents
• Class groupings
• Study child’s teacher
• Study child’s class
• Move to Secondary School

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MCS6: Content of the Age 14 Survey

Main Parent Partner parent Young Person Interview & Self completion Interview & Self completion Self completion questionnaire (40 mins) Cognitive assessment: word activity Cognitive assessment: word activity Cognitive assessment: word activity decision making task (CGT) Physical Measurements: height weight body fat Saliva Sample*

(*Biological parents only)

Saliva Sample*

(*Biological parents only)

Saliva Sample Accelerometer Time Use Diary

Age 14 Young person questionnaire

Free time activities Feelings about school and the future Their friends, family and relationships Their body, health and feelings Things they might have experienced or done Views and values Their personality Their identity

• Romantic

relationship s

• Sexual

experiences

• Smoking
• Drinking
• Illegal drugs
• Gambling
• Anti-social behaviour
• Wrong doing
• Criminal activity
• Contact with police
• Harassment
• Bullying
• Puberty
• Dieting

MCS6 Designing a survey for teenagers

• Recontact exercise (Pre MCS6)

 participant pack sent to young people only  a letter – including a pop-out membership card.  a booklet – providing information about the study, the impact of the study and how findings have been used, what the study covers, what happens to the data collected and information about the CNC team. Swag : a keyring, a travel-card holder and a notebook.

• Website redesign – more YP focussed

http://www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/cnc/default.aspx

• Using social media - Facebook, &Twitter
• Rebranding of all materials to appeal to teens

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MCS Linkage to Administrative Data

• Completed
• Maternity and birth registration
• School records
• school level data (whole UK)
• NPD linkage (E & W)
• Geo-coded data
• Consent gained/in progress
• Hospital episodes (whole UK)
• NI data (earnings, insurance credits & tax credits)
• DWP (benefit & employment programme data)

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MCS add on projects

• Postal survey of mothers who had assisted fertility treatment
• Nursery Observations
• Every Tooth Tells a Story (MCS4)
• Non response project (MCS4)

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