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New insights on cognition in CLOSER’s updated cross-study data guide

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Discover new insights on cognition measures across the life course with the latest update to CLOSER’s cross-study guide on cognitive data.

The latest information on cognitive data

CLOSER’s cognitive data guide now includes a summary of cognition measurement across 19 UK longitudinal population studies and in-depth information about measurements of cognition from more recent data collections in four studies.

In this latest update, you will discover the following:

  • Details of cognitive data from the most recent data collections across the four studies,
  • Cognitive tests and questions that have been used in each study,
  • The year these tests were used,
  • Who responded (e.g. age and type of respondent),
  • Descriptive statistics for each measure also give an indication of the sample size achieved and any ceiling or floor effects.

Discover new insights

With these latest insights on longitudinal population-level data on policy-relevant cognition topics, researchers, policymakers and public health professionals can:

  • Explore life course data on cognition, including memory, executive function, and literacy and numeracy skills.
  • Identify where longitudinal data and repeated measurements can enable exploration of trends and changes in cognition over time.

Take a look at CLOSER’s cognitive data guide.

About CLOSER’s cross-study guides

Our cross-study data guides help researchers explore and compare the available measures on different research themes both within and across multiple longitudinal population studies. Other cross-study guides in the series:

Find out more in our Comparing apples and oranges? Enabling cross-study research with CLOSER’s data guides blog.

Related links:

Read examples of longitudinal research into cognition on the CLOSER Learning Hub:

Notes to Editors

The latest release provides updates on the following four CLOSER partner studies:

  • 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS): Sweep 10 (age 62, 2020)
  • 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70): Sweep 11 (age 51, 2021)
  • Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC): age 24 (2016-2017)
  • Millennium Cohort Study (MCS): Sweep 7 (age 17, 2018), Sweep 8 (age 23, 2023)

The guide now also provides an overview of cognition measurement across the life course in all 19 CLOSER partner studies.