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Sample from the Ten-Year Follow-up (1980) of the 1970 British Cohort Study

Description

This dataset is a sample of few variables taken from the Ten-Year Follow-up (1980) of the 1970 British Cohort Study (BSC70).

Usage

UK

Format

A data frame with 14875 rows and 19 variables:

sex

Child's sex

age

Child's age in days

weight

Child's weight in Kg

height

Child's height in cm

glasses

Whether the child is wearing glasses

cigarettes_mum

No. of cigarettes mum smokes daily

cigarettes_dad

No. of cigarettes dad smokes daily

cigarettes

No. of cigarettes parents smoke daily

cigarettes_kid

Information of the child smoking habits

cigarettes_friends

Information on child's friends who smoke

bronchitis

Whether the child ever had bronchitis

drink

Did mother drink during pregnancy, early

milk

Glasses of milk drank per day

coca

Glasses of coca-cola or pepsi drank per day

backward

Number of steps the child makes before making an error when asked to walk backwards for 20 steps

mother_height

Mother's height in cm

father_height

Father's height in cm

mother_weight

Mother's weight in Kg

father_weight

Father's weight in Kg

Details

The BCS70 began in 1970 when data were collected about the 17,198 babies born in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in the week 5-11 April.

At this time, the study was named the British Births Survey (BBS) and it was sponsored by the National Birthday Trust Fund, in association with the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Since 1970, there have been four attempts to gather information from the full cohort - when they were aged 5, 10, 16 and 26 years. 90 were traced and completed one or more survey documents.

In 1975 and 1980, the cohort was augmented by the inclusion of immigrants to Britain who were born in the target week in 1970. Subjects from Northern Ireland who had been included in the birth survey, were dropped from the study in all subsequent sweeps.

The BCS70 Ten-year Follow-up is the second full national follow-up of the 1970 cohort born in Great Britain 5-11 April 1970. The cohort has been surveyed comprehensively at birth, five, ten, 16 and 26 years, and samples were seen at 22 months, 42 months, seven and 21 years. The BCS70 Ten-year Follow-up was originally titled the Child Health and Education Study (CHES), but in 1991 the whole 1970 Cohort Study was renamed the British Cohort Study 1970 (BCS70) and the ten-year sweep became known as BCS70 Ten-year Follow-up.

Source

Study number 3723 from the BCS70: https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/series/?sn=200001

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