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Showcasing ALSPAC as a Resource for Social and Health Researchers 2-5pm, 4 April 2011 at the Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol Street, London, EC1Y 8LX, UK. Speakers: Andy Boyd, Debbie Lawlor, Liz Washbrook (all University of Bristol) and Stephanie von Hinke Kessler Scholde (Imperial College Business School, London) There is no charge for this event but pre-registration is recommended. Please email [log in to unmask] or telephone 020 7273 8010 to register. Further details (including abstracts) can be found at: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/alspac-social-sciences/workshops The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents & Children (ALSPAC) has been running since 1991 and has resulted in a rich data set of biomedical and social measurements on children and their carers. While there has already been much high profile research based on ALSPAC, efforts have recently been made to increase awareness of these data among the wider research community. The aim of this meeting is to showcase the ALSPAC data and its potential for answering research questions concerning health and social factors. The four presentations will cover the following issues: the ALSPAC data and its linkage to important administrative data sources; factors affecting the relationship between gestational weight gain and the health of mothers and their offspring in later life; a comparison of the socio-economic differences in children's behavioural and educational development found in ALSPAC and a US cohort; and the use of genetic data to establish the causal relationship between physical characteristics with a genetic basis, like obesity, and important outcomes, like educational attainment. The meeting is sponsored by the ESRC-funded project "Impact of Family Socio-economic Status on Outcomes in Childhood & Adolescence". With best regards Hilary Browne Centre for Multilevel Modelling You may leave the list at any time by sending the command SIGNOFF allstat to [log in to unmask], leaving the subject line blank.