The Millennium Cohort Study: Analysing young children's development from birth to age 11

label Diverse autorenew 2025-09-29, 17:01 history_edu Ioana Dinescu
The Millennium Cohort Study is an exceptionally rich, representative, multi-disciplinary, longitudinal resource for studying child well-being throughout early childhood. The MCS has followed a nationally representative UK-wide sample of children born in 2000-2001 across their early years, and has been at the forefront of expanding the potential of data collection from children and their families via in-home surveys. The course will provide participants with an understanding of the different data elements, practical issues such as weighting and linking individual over time and appropriate longitudinal analytical techniques, using all five of the available data sweeps (ages 9 months, 3 years, 5 years, 7 years, and 11 years old).It will be delivered through a combination of taught sessions and hands-on lab sessions to build up knowledge and enable practical exploration of the data and worked examples, exploiting the multiple sweeps (surveys at five points throughout infancy and childhood up to age 11) and multiple elements of the study (e.g. parent interviews, child assessments, child self-completion questionnaires, direct physical measurements). The course will be delivered by experts in the fields of survey design, survey practice, longitudinal analysis and child well-being and development. Coverage will include the following areas:•key features of the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), e.g. sample, national coverage, different respondents, different types of data, including physical measurements and cognitive assessments as well as questionnaire and self-report data•issues and solutions in the collection of data from a diverse sample of young children•research examples of existing high quality research utilising the MCS - approaches, methods, insights and applications•data management for complex longitudinal data, issues and practical implementation•techniques for analysing children's development over time and family change using repeat observations. •extensions to other child cohorts and cross-national cohort comparisons.

Period
25-08-2014 - 29-08-2014 (1 weeks)

Target group
This course is suitable for those with backgrounds across the social and health sciences and for those with an interest in childhoods, survey practice and survey methodology. In particular, the course is aimed at those with an interest in:child physical, emotional and cognitive development across the early years, as well as family context and parentingnew approaches to collecting data from childrenextending their analytical and data management skills with complex large, nationally representative data setsutilising multidisciplinary data and approaches to address questions of child well-being and family dynamicsdeveloping their understanding of longitudinal approaches and the benefits of longitudinal data for evaluating causal processes.

Course aim
The objective of this course is to introduce participants interested in children, child welfare and cognitive, emotional and physical development, family dynamics and parenting, survey practice and the benefits of longitudinal data to an exceptional multidisciplinary resource, and provide them with the skills to analyse it appropriately.



Credits
0.0 ECTS credits

Course fee
GBP 890[Convert to USD]Academic rate - available to students and staff of academic institutionsGBP 1500[Convert to USD]Standard rate

Course leader
Professor Lucinda Platt

Scholarships
Previous students of LSE may be eligible for a 15% discount on their tuition fees.

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