The Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) assessed their cohort members (CMs) during the study’s sweep at 9 months age using the Developmental Milestones measures.
Details on these measures and the data collected from the CMs are outlined in the table below.
| Domain: | Fine and gross motor coordination |
| Receptive and productive vocabulary | |
| Measures: | Developmental milestones using questions from two developmental questionnaires: |
| 8 questions from Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST) which screens for potential developmental problems | |
| 5 items were chosen from a UK adaptation of MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories (CDI) identifies early communicative gestures | |
| CHC: | N/A |
| Administrative method: | Parent report; face to face interview |
| Procedure: | Parents were asked to respond to selected statements from the tests, using a three point scale Often/once or twice/not yet for the Denver Developmental Screening Test, and Often/sometimes/not yet for the MacArthur CDI. |
| Link to questionnaire: | https://cls.ucl.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/MCS1_CAPI_Questionnaire_Documentation_March_2006_v1.1.pdf (opens in new tab) |
| Scoring: | None available |
| Item-level variable(s): | achand00 acgrab00 acpick00 acptoy00 (DDST - fine) |
| acsitu00 acstan00 acwalk00 (DDST - gross) | |
| acsmil00 acgive00 acwave00 acarms00 acnods00 (CDI) | |
| Total score/derived variable(s): | None |
| Age of participant (days): | Mean = 295.5, SD 15.25, Range = 243-382 |
| Descriptives: | None available |
| Other sweep and/or cohort: | None |
| Source: | Frankenburg, W. K., & Dodds, J. B. (1967). The Denver developmental screening test. The Journal of Pediatrics, 71(2), 181-191. |
| Fenson L., Dale P., Resnick J., Thal D., Bates E., Hartung J. P. et al. (1993). MacArthur Communicative Inventories. Singular Publishing Group, San Diego. | |
| Technical resources: | Johnson, J., Atkinson, M., & Rosenberg, R. (2015). Guide to psychological, developmental and health inventories in the MCS. London: Centre for Longitudinal Studies. |
| Reference examples: | Sacker, A., Quigley, M. A., & Kelly, Y. J. (2006). Breastfeeding and developmental delay: findings from the millennium cohort study. Pediatrics, 118(3), e682-e689. |
Go to:
- Overview of all cognitive measures in MCS
- Overview of childhood cognitive measures across all studies
This page is part of CLOSER’s ‘A guide to the cognitive measures in five British birth cohort studies’.