Dear colleague,
I thought you might like to know of recent developments in support for academic users of the ONS Longitudinal Study.
CeLSIUS (Centre for Longitudinal Study Information and User Support) was established as the new user support service early last year and our web site www.celsius.lshtm.ac.uk has full details about us, current and past research on the LS support service and dataset developments.
We have two online training modules about using the LS, one on "Ethnicity" and one on "Defining a Study Population", with more in development; a searchable list of publications; and an online version of the data dictionary, all of which we hope will make preparing a project easier. A downloadable newsletter is also available.
Linkage of 2001 Census data is going well and should be fully completed by the summer of 2004 (and test versions of the new data will be available earlier). Once these data are included, the LS will have information spanning a forty year period. The 2001 Census also includes data which will provide new opportunities for research including, for example, two questions on health (and as one is the same as that included in 1991, the potential to look at health transitions), questions on caregiving, religion and ethnicity (again for the second time) and improved and more detailed information on educational qualifications and intra-household relationships. So now is the time to start planning projects. Please do visit the website or contact us for more information.
We would also be very grateful for any feedback on the website, training modules or other outputs of CeLSIUS's work.
Yours sincerely,
Emily Grundy
Emily Grundy
Centre for Population Studies
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
49-51 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3DP
Tel (44) (0) 20 7299 4668/4614
Fax (44) (0) 207 299 4637
visit CeLSIUS - the new team set up to support academics using the ONS Longitudinal Study
http://www.celsius.lshtm.ac.uk
Find out about our short course on ageing
http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/prospectus/short/sahwop.html
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