Version: 1.0.0 | Published: 17 Feb 2025 | Updated: 374 days ago
Documentation
Description:
The Children of the 1950s study is a longitudinal cohort study managed by the University of Aberdeen. Comprising individuals born in Aberdeen, Scotland (UK) between 1950 and 1956, this cohort is based on over twelve thousand subjects who took part in a detailed survey of all children attending an Aberdeen primary school in December 1962. The data collected include information on birth weight, childhood height and weight, tests of cognition and behavioural disorder, and a range of multi-level socio-economic indicators.
The process of revitalising the cohort was commenced in 1998. The current vital status and whereabouts of 98.5% of the 12,150 subjects with full baseline data was ascertained . A postal questionnaire to all surviving cohort members was distributed in 2001, with a response proportion of 63%. Updates on deaths are received on a regular basis, and linkage to routinely collected hospital admissions and prescriptions is possible. Some contextual work was carried out relating to neighbourhood ,household and school level data.
Coverage
Spatial:
United Kingdom, Scotland, Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire
Typical Age Range:
18-75
Follow Up:
Continuous
Provenance
Origin
Purposes:
Study
Temporal
Accrual Periodicity:
Continuous
Start Date:
03 December 1962
Time Lag:
Variable
Accessibility
Access
Access Service:
The Data Portal runs its analysis environment through a virtual desktop
infrastructure accessible via VMWare software. By analysing the data in the
virtual desktop environment you are working on DPUK"s servers – meaning there is
no physical transfer of data to researchers. The processing capacity enables you
to work with large numbers of records and integrate these with the other data
modalities that exist in the DPUK cohorts. This solution also offers researchers
the freedom to conduct their analyses anywhere with an internet connection.
Data Controller:
University of Aberdeen
Data Processor:
Dementias Platform UK
Format and Standards
Vocabulary Encoding Schemes:
OTHER
Conforms To:
OTHER
Languages:
en
Formats:
CSV