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Age | NSHD | NCDS | BCS70 | ALSPAC |
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20s | Age 26: | Age 21*:
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30s | Age 37*:
| Age 34: | ||
40s | Age 43: | Age 42:
Age 46-47: | ||
50s | Age 53: | Age 50: | Age 50**:
| Age 50 (Focus on Mother’s Clinic 2): Age 52 (Focus on Mother’s Clinic 3): Age 53 (Focus on Mother’s Clinic 4): |
60s | Age 60-64: | Age 61-63**:
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60s/ 70s | Age 68-70: |
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Notes. The MCS cohort has not yet reached adulthood (as of the time of writing) so is not included in this table. *Tests completed by a sub-sample. **At the time of writing, cognitive tests were provisional pending pilot and fieldwork.
Explore the cognitive measures across studies in early life:
Explore the cognitive measures in the cohort studies covered by this guide:
- 1946 National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD)
- 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS)
- 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70)
- Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC)
- Millennium Cohort Study (MCS)
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This page is part of CLOSER’s ‘A guide to the cognitive measures in five British birth cohort studies’.