Millennium Cohort Study, 2001-2003: Hospital of Birth: Special Licence Access

UKDA study number:5724

Principal Investigator

University of London. Institute of Education. Centre for Longitudinal Studies

Sponsor

University of London. Institute of Education. Centre for Longitudinal Studies

Distributed by

UK Data Archive, University of Essex, Colchester.

March 2008 (2nd Edition)

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University of London. Institute of Education. Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Millennium Cohort Study, 2001-2003: Hospital of Birth: Special Licence Access [computer file]. 2nd Edition. Colchester, Essex: UK Data Archive [distributor], March 2008. SN: 5724.

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5724 . Millennium Cohort Study, 2001-2003: Hospital of Birth: Special Licence Access
(MCS)

Depositor:

University of London. Institute of Education. Centre for Longitudinal Studies

Principal Investigator:

University of London. Institute of Education. Centre for Longitudinal Studies

Sponsor:

University of London. Institute of Education. Centre for Longitudinal Studies

Other Acknowledgements:

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Analytic and Services Branch Information Centre at Newcastle, who: identified the main Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) sample from Child Benefit records, and ran an opt-out exercise for MCS1; provided a similar service to enable the inclusion in MCS2 of 'new families' (eligible for inclusion in MCS1 but not identfied in the records until after the completion of the first survey); and assisted with tracing families who had moved, for both MCS1 and MCS2.

Members of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) funding consortium provided advice as well as funding.

Individual academic advisers:
Specialist advisers: Julia Brannen, Tim Cole, Leon Feinstein, Charlie Owen.
Members of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) internal team: Neville Butler, John Bynner, Elsa Ferri, Ian Plewis, Peter Shepherd and Kate Smith.

Collaborators on the MCS included: Mel Bartley, Helen Bedford, Dermot Bowler, Leslie Davidson, Carol Dezateux, Harvey Goldstein, Kath Kiernan, Yvonne Kelly, Michael Marmot, Barbara Maughan, Alison McFarlane, Catherine Peckham, Chris Power, Ingrid Schoon and Marjorie Smith.

Members of the Millennium Cohort Study Advisory Group, for advice on the form and content of MCS1, MCS2 and MCS3.
Chintamanee Sanmukhiya undertook the bulk of the coding work.

Abstract:

The original objectives of the first MCS survey, as laid down in the proposal to the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) in March 2000, were:

• to chart the initial conditions of social, economic and health advantages and disadvantages facing children born at the start of the 21st century, capturing information that the research community of the future will require
• to provide a basis for comparing patterns of development with the preceding cohorts (the National Child Development Study, held at the UK Data Archive (UKDA) under GN 33004, and the 1970 Birth Cohort Study, held under GN 33229)
• to collect information on previously neglected topics, such as fathers' involvement in children's care and development
• to focus on parents as the most immediate elements of the children's 'background', charting their experience as mothers and fathers of newborn babies in the year 2000, recording how they (and any other children in the family) adapted to the newcomer, and what their aspirations for her/his future may be
• to emphasise intergenerational links including those back to the parents' own childhood
• to investigate the wider social ecology of the family, including social networks, civic engagement and community facilities and services, splicing in geo-coded data when available

Additional objectives subsequently included for MCS were:

• to provide control cases for the national evaluation of Sure Start (a government programme intended to alleviate child poverty and social exclusion)
• to provide samples of adequate size to analyse and compare the smaller countries of the United Kingdom

The first sweep (MCS1) interviewed both mothers and (where resident) fathers (or father-figures) of infants included in the sample when the babies were nine months old, and the second sweep (MCS2) was carried out with the same respondents when the children were three years of age. The third sweep, MCS3, was conducted in 2006, when the children were five years of age. A fourth sweep, MCS4, will be conducted in 2008.

Some studies based on sub-samples of MCS have also been conducted, including a study of MCS respondent mothers who had received assisted fertility treatment, conducted in 2003 (see SN 5559). Also, birth registration and maternity hospital episodes for the MCS respondents are held as a separate dataset (see SN 5614).

Further information about the MCS can be found on the CLS MCS web pages.
The Hospital of Birth: Special Licence Access data cover uncoded hospital of birth for MCS respondents. These data have more restrictive access conditions than those available under the standard End User Licence (see 'Access' section below). Coded hospital of birth data, subject to standard access conditions, are available as part of SN 5614, and users are strongly advised to use those instead. Those users who do wish to make an application for the Special Licence Access data should contact ESDS Longitudinal for further details.

For the second edition of the study (March 2008), a new version of the data file was deposited, with the family serial number variable (famsrno) replaced by a new serial number variable, mcsid (MCS Research Serial Number). The documentation remains unchanged.

Main Topics:

The data cover maternity hospital episode, country, National Health Service (NHS) Trust, and hospital of birth for MCS respondents.

Coverage:

Dates of Fieldwork: January 2001 - January 2003
Country: United Kingdom
Spatial Units: Countries;Primary Care Trusts/Care Trusts; Hospitals
Observation Units: Individuals; Families/households; Individuals; Families/households
Kind of Data: Numeric data; Alpha/numeric data; Individual (micro) level

Universe Sampled:

Location of Units of Observation: National
Population: The sample population for MCS was drawn from all live births in the United Kingdom over 12 months (from 1 September 2000 in England and Wales and for 59 weeks from 22 November 2000 in Scotland and Northern Ireland).
The sample population for MCS was drawn from all live births in the UK over 12 months from 1 September 2000 in England and Wales, and for 59 weeks from 22 November 2000 in Scotland and Northern Ireland. This sub-sample was drawn from those responding to MCS1 who had reported successful infertility treatment.

Methodology:

Time Dimensions: Longitudinal/panel/cohort
Three waves have been conducted to date: MCS1 (age 9 months), MCS2 (age 3 years) and MCS3 (age 5 years).
Sampling Procedures: Purposive selection/case studies
Number of Units: 18,552 cases
Method of Data Collection: Compilation or synthesis of existing material
Weighting: See main MCS documentation for details of weighting.

Language(s) of Written Materials:

Study Description: English
Study Documentation: English

Access:

Access Conditions: The depositor has specified that registration is required and standard conditions of use apply. The depositor may be informed about usage.
Additional special conditions of use also apply. See terms and conditions for further information.
In addition, ESDS is required to request permission from the depositor prior to supplying the data.
Available to UK applicants only.

Please note:
Since these data pose a higher risk of disclosure than data made available under the standard End User Licence they have additional special conditions attached to them that take the form of a Special Licence (SL). The SL requires the completion of an additional application form, agreement to the conditions of the SL, the signature(s) of the researcher(s) and the institution(s) with responsibility for the researcher(s), and the explicit permission of the data owners to release the data to the researcher(s). This is to ensure that the guarantee of confidentiality given to survey respondents is protected. SL applications are screened by UKDA and the data owners and data are only released to those researchers requiring data for statistical research purposes and who can justify their need for the SL data.

Researchers are required to keep the data under conditions of greater security than required under the standard End User Licence. The ESDS Guide to good practice: micro data handling and security explains how to meet these conditions.
Availability: ESDS Longitudinal, UK Data Archive
Contact: Help desk: longitudinal@esds.ac.uk

Date of First Release:

9 October 2007

Date of Latest Release:

18 March 2008 ( 2nd Edition )

Copyright:

University of London. Centre for Longitudinal Studies

File last updated:

28 May 2008