Study Links
This page links to the websites of a number of studies. The SLLS Cohort Network welcomes additions and updates. Please send details (logo and website address) of your study to us at [email protected] and we will add them to this page.
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This bank of studies is ever-growing. If you are aware of others (not already listed), please forward details to [email protected] for inclusion.
The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) is a longitudinal study of a nationally representative sample of over 20,000 adolescents who were in grades 7-12 during the 1994-95 school year, and have been followed for five waves to date, most ...
Based at the University of Bristol, Children of the 90s, also known as the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), is a world-leading birth cohort study. Between April 1991 and December 1992 more than 14,000 pregnant women were recruited into the ...
This study aims to develop the evidence base to understand the current influences on family health and well-being and how these affect subsequent childhood health and education. This work can be used to design and inform policies supporting changes to improve the ...
The 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) is following the lives of around 17,000 people born in England, Scotland and Wales in a single week of 1970. Over the course of cohort members’ lives, BCS70 has collected information on health, physical, educational and ...
Building a New Life in Australia (BNLA) is the first longitudinal study of its kind that examines the same group of humanitarian migrants settling into a new life in Australia. The study aims to gain insight of the factors that help or hinder the successful settlement of ...
The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) is a large, national research platform on health and aging allowing researchers to answer critical questions on the biological, medical, psychological, social, lifestyle and economic aspects of aging, disability and disease.
The China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) aims to collect a high quality nationally representative sample of Chinese residents ages 45 and older to serve the needs of scientific research on the elderly. The baseline national wave of CHARLS is being fielded in ...
The CONtributions of social NEtworks to Community Thriving (CONNECT) Study aims to help understand the best ways to promote good mental health among racially minoritised communities. Minoritised comm-unities, which include those who have been historically excluded ...
Ireland’s first in-depth study of primary schools contributing to the development of national policy, informed by the voices of children, their families, their teachers and school leaders. A landmark study, it explores the lived experiences of over 4000 children in 189 ...
Recent research supports the view that the time from conception to childhood is important for health in later stages of life. Diseases such as cardiovascular morbidity, cancer, mental illnesses, asthma and allergy may all have component causes that act early in life.
The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS) program provides important information about children's knowledge, skills, and development from birth through elementary school. For more than 20 years, the ECLS program has helped educators, families, researchers, ...
Elfe is France’s first nationwide scientific study of children, tracking them from birth to adulthood. We are looking at many varied aspects of their lives, from the perspectives of health, social sciences and the environment. By monitoring the children at regular intervals, we will ...
Australia’s largest study into health and ageing Since 2005, the 45 and Up Study has been following over a quarter of a million people to understand how Australians are ageing and the factors that promote good health and wellbeing. Thanks to the incredible dedication of our ...
FReDA - The German Family Demography Panel Study is a scientific study that addresses the issues of relationships and family life in Germany. For the study, several thousand people, country-wide, between the ages of 18 and 49 were randomly selected, along with their ...
The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study has changed its name to The Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS). The Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS) is based on a stratified, multistage sample of about 5,000 children born in ...
The GENERATION study follows the journey of young Australians, as they transition to life beyond school. This landmark study of students from about 300 schools across the country aims to reflect the collective experience of young Australians – inside and outside school, while ...
The Generation R Study is a prospective cohort study from foetal life until young adulthood in a multi-ethnic urban population. The study is designed to identify early environmental and genetic causes of normal and abnormal growth, development and health from ...
Generation Victoria, often called GenV, is a research program that is happening across all of Victoria, Australia. It is designed to help people (including doctors, hospitals, people who design community services, and more) to understand the things that might affect your, ...
Growing Up in Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) is a major study following the development of 10,000 young people and their families from all parts of Australia. It is conducted in partnership between the Department of Social Services ...
The Growing Up in Hungary is a large-scale longitudinal survey initiated by the Hungarian Demographic Research Institute (HDRI) of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (HCSO), with the objective to provide a comprehensive overview of children growing up in ...
Growing Up in Ireland is the national longitudinal study of children and young people, a joint project of the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY) and the Central Statistics Office (CSO). Since 2006, the study has provided Government with an ...
Growing Up in New Zealand is Aotearoa's largest longitudinal study of child health and wellbeing, following the lives of more than 6000 rangatahi and their families. The rich information collected by the study is helping create flourishing futures for all young people in Aotearoa.
The Growing Up in Québec study, also called the Québec Longitudinal Study of Child Development, 2nd edition (QLSCD 2), was started to fulfill a need for knowledge about the development of children born in the early 2020s. This large-scale study will allow government and ...
Growing Up in Scotland is a longitudinal research study, tracking the lives of thousands of young people & their families from the early years, through childhood and now as they move into adulthood. GUS provides a free, unique resource for anyone carrying out research into ...
HAPPEN is a primary school network which brings together education, health and research in line with the new curriculum proposals for Health and Wellbeing. By taking part in the survey, teachers and pupils are empowered to make meaningful changes by gaining a better ...
The internationally-recognised Health and Employment After
Fifty (HEAF) Study began in 2013 and the main aim of the investigation is to find out whether working to older ages is good or bad for health and how often health affects people’s ability to work in different types ...
The University of Michigan Health and Retirement Study (HRS) is a longitudinal panel study that surveys a representative sample of approximately 20,000 people in America, supported by the National Institute on Aging and the Social Security Administration. Through ...
The National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS-72) is a large, diverse, nationally representative cohort study that began with a random sample of American high school seniors in 1972. Follow-up surveys were conducted between 1973 and 1986.
The Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) is an on-going longitudinal survey in Indonesia. The sample is representative of about 83% of the Indonesian population and contains over 30,000 individuals living in 13 of the 27 provinces in the country. The first wave of the IFLS (IFLS1) was ...
By analyzing the Japanese Study of Aging and Retirement (JSTAR) data, researchers can track the characteristics of the Japanese elderly population in terms of both their specificity and universality in the world. In this sense, JSTAR is Japan's first-ever globally ...
The KIT project (Kids in Taiwan: National Longitudinal Study of Child Development and Care) is a long-term study focusing on children in Taiwan. The study is designed to create a complete database that collects longitudinal information of child development.
The purpose of KLoSA is to create the basic data needed to devise and implement effective social, economic policies to address the trends that emerge in the process of population ageing. The data will help identify and observe different dimensions of an aged society, build datasets that ...
The Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) track young people as they move from school into further study, work, and other destinations. LSAY provides a rich source of information about young people and their pathways, helping researchers and policymakers ...
The Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) is a national longitudinal study of adults 50 years and older in Mexico. The baseline survey, with national and urban/rural representation of adults born in 1951 or earlier, was conducted in 2001 with follow-up interviews in 2003, ...
Nacaps, the National Academics Panel Study, is a new longitudinal study of doctoral candidates and doctorate holders. This is the first study to systematically collect data on career paths of highly qualified academics in Germany – for the use of researchers, HEIs and academic ...
The 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS) is following the lives of an initial 17,415 people born in England, Scotland and Wales in a single week of 1958. It started in 1958 at birth, as the Perinatal Mortality Survey. Over the course of cohort members’ lives, ...
The German National Cohort (NAKO Gesundheitsstudie) is Germany’s largest long-term population study, in which more than 205,000 randomly selected people are examined comprehensively in 18 study centres. At the start of the study in 2014, the NAKO ...
The National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) is the largest long-term educational study in Germany. In seven starting cohorts, the development of competencies and the educational trajectories of a total of more than 70,000 participants are monitored - from early childhood ...
In 2012, NICOLA was set up to - explore why and how certain social, economic and biological factors are changing the lives of older people - to understand how health, lifestyle, financial circumstances and wellbeing change with age - to understand what it is like to grow ...
The National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS-72) is a large, diverse, nationally representative cohort study that began with a random sample of American high school seniors in 1972. Follow-up surveys were conducted between 1973 and 1986.
The National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) is a long-term study of Canadian children that follows their development and well-being from birth to early adulthood. The study is designed to collect information about factors influencing a child's social, emotional and ...
The NLSY79 Cohort is a longitudinal project that follows the lives of a sample of American youth born between 1957-1964. The cohort originally included 12,686 respondents ages 14-22 when first interviewed in 1979; after two subsamples were dropped, 9,964 ...
Next Steps is one of the biggest and most important studies of your generation anywhere in the world. It began following 16,000 young people, born in 1989-1990, who were in Year 9 in 2004 at state or independent secondary schools across England. From the time you ...
The Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study (MoBa) is a study of the causes of disease among mothers and children. MoBa began to recruit pregnant women in 1999. Fathers were also invited. In 2008, the goal of more than 100 000 pregnancies was reached.
ORIGINS is the largest study of its kind in Australia, following 10,000 children, from their time in the womb, over a decade to improve child and adult health. The unique long-term study is one of the most comprehensive studies of pregnant women and their families in ...
The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) is the longest running longitudinal household survey in the world. The study began in 1968 with a nationally representative sample of over 18,000 individuals living in 5,000 families in the United States. Information on these individuals ...
The Québec Longitudinal Study of Child Development (QLSCD), principally funded by the ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux (MSSS) (Ministry of Health and Social Services) during its first phase, was designed to advance our knowledge of child development.
The Raine Study is the oldest pre-birth longitudinal study in the world, and one of the most successful and extensive studies of pregnancy, childhood, and adulthood ever undertaken. For the first time ever, the Raine Study will collect data from both Generation 1 and 2 ...
The panel study “Refugees from Ukraine in Germany” is based on a register-based random sample based on the residents' registration offices, which enables representative results on Ukrainians registered in Germany since the beginning of the war. The panel survey was established in ...
The aim of the ReGES project was to collect data that can be used to describe and analyze the newly immigrated groups and their educational trajectories. In addition, the ReGES project also conducted its own research on various topics. In addition to individual educational ...
The Southampton Women's Study is the only study in Europe in which women from the general population were recruited when not pregnant and then those who subsequently became pregnant were followed through pregnancy and the children followed-up. Thus this study has ...
The Student Life Cycle Panel (SLC) accompanies school leavers with a higher education entrance certificate and university graduates on their way into the labour market in order to draw a comprehensive picture of educational decisions and courses, as well as labour market ...
The Swedish Panel Study of Living Conditions of the Oldest Old – SWEOLD is run by researchers from Aging Research Center at Karolinska Institutet. SWEOLD is an ongoing, nationally representative survey of the older population in Sweden. The first data collection ...
The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) is a long-term study of a random sample of 10,317 people who graduated from Wisconsin high schools in 1957. We’ve expanded the panel by also interviewing one sibling of the graduate and when available the graduate’s spouse and sibling’s ...
The Stress, Development and Mental Health: TAM-cohort studies the life course from adolescence to midlife. The TAM cohort has followed study participants of a one age cohort through the ages of 16, 22, 32, 42 and 52, starting from the year 1983. The respondents all attended ...
Ten to Men: The Australian Longitudinal Study on Male Health is a study designed to help improve the health and wellbeing of boys and men. Ten to Men is a longitudinal study, so we aim to survey the same group of males every few years. It began in 2013 and generates ...
The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) is a large-scale, nationally representative, longitudinal study on ageing in Ireland, the overarching aim of which is to make Ireland the best place in the world to grow old. TILDA is designated as the WHO ...
Tracking Adolescents' Individual Lives Survey (TRAILS) is an ongoing, multidisciplinary research on the psychological, social and physical development of adolescents and young adults. More than 2500 participants participate in TRAILS, since their tenth or eleventh year.
Transitions from Education to Employment (TREE) is a large panel survey following up compulsory school leavers from all over Switzerland through their post-compulsory education and training and into employment and adulthood. The first TREE cohort (TREE1) ...
Young Lives is a unique longitudinal study of poverty and inequality that has been following the lives of 12,000 children in Ethiopia, India (Andhra Pradesh and Telangana), Peru and Vietnam since 2001. Over two decades of research, Young Lives has generated unmatched insights into ...
The Youth Development Study (YDS) was initiated as a school-based study of adolescent children and their parents to examine the consequences of formative experiences in adolescence for mental health, value formation, educational achievement, and ...
The Zurich Longitudinal Studies (ZLS for short) include several extensive long-term studies that have been conducted at the University Children's Hospital Zurich since the 1950s. The studies originally aimed to describe various areas of child development in detail and thus ...
HOW YOU CAN HELP
This bank of studies is ever-growing. If you are aware of others (not already listed), please forward details to [email protected] for inclusion.
The Born in Bradford Study tracks the health, development, and well-being of mothers and children from pregnancy onwards, collecting extensive data over time to understand health outcomes; data is securely managed under strict ethical oversight and ...
The Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), known as ‘Child of the New Century’ to cohort members and their families, is following the lives of around 19,000 young people born across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in 2000-02. The study began with an original ...
