NCDS

NCDS?

I had to Google this Non Communicable Diseases.
It dosen't apply to me., and I confess I didn't read it all.

Lillie could you explain rhe significance of the dates please.

When I googled it it told me it was National Child Development study but different to your find Nina

Here's a link to the site that Google came up with

www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/page.aspx?&sitesectionid=724&sitesectiontitle=National+Child+Development+Study

The significance of the dates is because this group of children were the study group and it's been ongoing over the years.

Sorry, but good on you people who looked it up! NCDS is National Child Development Study. It is a survey commissioned in 1958 which follows all babies born between March 3rd to March 10th.
They do regular health checks for medical research, ask about education, earnings, spending habits, family relationships, even personal questions about your sex life! Sometimes their research has led to breakthroughs in the understanding of the genetic underpinnings of medical conditions. Sometimes, based on the findings, the government has acted and given funding for education programmes or social matters.
Of course, as we approach 60 and beyond there will be fewer and fewer of us which is kind of why I was interested in finding anyone else on the survey.

far more interesting than my search.

I hope you find others Lillie I imagine it would be fascinating to compare your lives/health

There have been a series of television programmes over the years monitoring the progress of these children, now, of course, adults in their 50s.

Have you been in any of them Lillie?

I have found the programmes really interesting when I have seen them.

Was that called something like ' we were 7 '

Yes I have heard of this. I would be interested in seeing some results from that but not at this time of night.

One of my sisters is a NCDS kid - born 3 March 1958.

MOnica, I think you might be referring to a different group of children.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_Series

Was this the programme called something like'Give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man'

I don't think anything from our ongoing survey has ever been televised, but I do remember programmes following various groups of children. Fascinating!
Ours is more of a scientific study starting with the question does birth weight affect future health, through to the effects of stress and environmental issues on our lives. Sometimes we get an in-depth interview, over an hour long, other times it's a long questionnaire to fill in. We've had to do various -pointless- tests, as a child I remember we had to put matches back in a box with our right hand then again with our left hand?? At 45 they did a big study on stress, we all had BP readings done and had to spit into a bottle. We also had to answer fairly intrusive questions on our earnings and rate our happiness. Mental health is covered in a bug way too. They send us a little booklet every year with their findings.

"big" not bug!

That's the one, momb, but the programme was nothing to do with the children in the NCDS. Click on the link in my previous post for details of the programme.

My sister began to find it all a bit too intrusive and hasn't taken part for a few years. I think they've 'lost' her.

I think the tv series is about a different group of children and is called Seven Up!

I always remember a little boy, a farmer's son from Yorkshire who said 'When I grow up I want to go to the moooon'
He became an astro-physicist and works at NASA I think, but I'm not sure if he has made it to the moooon yet.

I taught someone who is in this study. It's providing the most wonderful data base - a longitudinal study like this will probably never be funded again and it's often had to fight to keep sufficient funding . As OP says, much has been learned and applied - it was all children born on that date so is really valuable. Seven up is really tiny in comparison and was very biased in favour of male participants - interesting and entertaining TV but not research

Jalima, he's called Nick and he's currently a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_Series

You can search this site www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/page.aspx?&sitesectionid=724&sitesectiontitle=National+Child+Development+Study
and read about some of the research which has used the data.

Thanks dd I thought he was such a lovely little boy and seems to have fulfilled some of his dreams.

Have they done a similar study, NCDS, on a group of the millennial children?

The Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) is a multi-disciplinary research project following the lives of around 19,000 children born in the UK in 2000-01. It is the most recent of Britain’s world-renowned national longitudinal birth cohort studies. The study has been tracking the Millennium children through their early childhood years and plans to follow them into adulthood. It collects information on the children’s siblings and parents. MCS’s field of enquiry covers such diverse topics as parenting; childcare; school choice; child behaviour and cognitive development; child and parental health; parents’ employment and education; income and poverty; housing, neighbourhood and residential mobility; and social capital and ethnicity.

The study is core funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and a consortium of Government departments.

You can find out more about the Millennium Cohort Study by watching an interview with its Principal Investigator, Emla Fitzsimons below.

www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/page.aspx?&sitesectionid=851&sitesectiontitle=Welcome+to+the+Millennium+Cohort+Study

Oh, I meant those who came of age (18) in 2000, I must mean the Millennials, Gen X.

Will this do?

www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/page.aspx?&sitesectionid=795&sitesectiontitle=Welcome+to+the+1970+British+Cohort+Study

These people were born in 1970, so not quite coming of age in 2000, but they didn't do one for babies born in 1982.