Dear
Colleagues,
The
Centre for Longitudinal Studies will be holding the following workshops:
19th
March 2009 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS) and 1970
British Cohort Study (BCS70): a workshop for potential users (www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/ncdsbcswkshp)
On Thursday March 19 2009, CLS will hold a one-day introductory
workshop on the 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS) and the 1970
British Cohort Study (BCS70). This event 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 and 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.
24th
March 2009 Millennium
Cohort Study Introductory Workshop (www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/mcsworkshop)
This
workshop will discuss the age 5 MCS data. It will include presentations on
the MCS survey; the MCS sample and issues of weights, response,
non-response and attrition; and how to access data from the UK Data Archive. In
the afternoon, computer workshops will cover a range of topics including linking
data from all three sweeps; recoding variables; deriving new variables;
examining frequencies and percentages; correlation and regression; how issues
of weighting affect results; how to measure attrition and the implications this
may have for research.
If
you wish to attend this workshop, please complete the online booking form
available from ESDS.
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activities and events, you can register on the website at www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/register
Lorna
Hardy
Communications
and Events Assistant
Fax:
020 7612 6880