The Millennium Cohort Study-Child of the New Century
Initiatives
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Known as ‘Child of the New Century’ to cohort members and their families.MCS is the fourth longitudinal birth cohort study conducted in the UK. Its aim is to create a multi-purpose data-set that describes the diversity of backgrounds into which children are born in the beginning of the 21st century.
- Start Year
- 2001
- End Year
- 2018
- Funding
- Economic and Social Research Council
Visit MCS-Child of the New Century
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Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
- Follow Up
- Follow up at 9 months, 3 years,5 years,7 years, 11 years, 14 years and 17 years.
- Supplementary Information
- https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/series/series?id=2000031
Marker Paper
Connelly R, Platt L. Cohort profile: UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS). Int J Epidemiol. 2014;43(6):1719-1725. doi:10.1093/ije/dyu001
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Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Families
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 18,818
- Number of participants with biosamples
- Supplementary Information
- Young people born across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in 2000-02.
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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Availability of access information
On the study website : https://cls.ucl.ac.uk/cls-studies/millennium-co...