Dear colleagues,
The Centre for Longitudinal Studies is delighted to announce these forthcoming events:
Wednesday, May 13, 2009: Millennium Cohort Study User Group Meeting: Child Health
CLS will showcase research on health using the Millennium Cohort Study on Wednesday, May 13, 2009. Topics such as fertility, eye disease in children and factors associated with the uptake of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine will be discussed. Speakers include:
* Kirstine Hansen, Centre for Longitudinal Studies
* Anna Pearce, Institute of Child Health, University College London
* Phillippa Cumberland, Institute of Child Health, University College London
* Maria Quigley, National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford
* Yvonne Kelly, Division of Population Health, University College London
A full programme is available here:
The meeting will take place at the Institute of Education, London. Places cost £30 (£20 for students). For a full programme and to book a place, please visit: http://www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/mcshealth.
Thursday, June 11, 2009: National Child Development Study and 1970 British Cohort Study: one-day introductory workshop in Scotland
On Thursday, 11 June, 2009, CLS will hold a one-day introductory workshop on National Child Development Study (NCDS) and 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70). The workshop will take place at the University of Stirling, Scotland. This event, organised jointly by CLS and the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS), is open to researchers considering using data from the most recent sweeps of the surveys.
The taught component of the workshop includes:
* survey design, data coverage and methodology
* patterns of attrition
* an introduction to the Idealist data dictionary
* accessing the data via ESDS
During the hands-on component, participants will have the opportunity to carry out SPSS or Stata analyses using sub-sets of NCDS/BCS70 data, with support from members of the CLS cohort studies team.
Further details, including the programme, are at: http://www.esds.ac.uk/longitudinal/news/eventdetail.asp?id="2206" <http://www.esds.ac.uk/longitudinal/news/eventdetail.asp?id=2206>
Lorna Hardy
Communications and Events Assistant
Centre for Longitudinal Studies,
Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning,
National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy
Institute of Education, University of London
Tel: 020 7612 6861
Fax: 020 7612 6880
Mailing address: Office address:
20 Bedford Way 55-59 Gordon Square
London London
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