Sweep Description
Age 7 Survey (2008)
MCS4
Professor Heather Joshi
Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education
Fieldwork for MCS4 finished in December 2008. Over 13,800 families with over 14,000 cohort children took part in the age of 7 survey. More than 8800 families participated in England, over 2000 in Wales, over 1600 in Scotland and 1300 in Northern Ireland. Ninety percent of families who took part in all the previous MCS surveys (9 months and ages 3 and 5) also participated at Age 7.
Study website: www.cls.ucl.ac.uk/cls-studies/millennium-cohort-study/mcs-age-7-sweep
Childhood
5 - 12 years
Coverage
UK
Funding
Data
MCS Age 7 Main and Partner Respondent Questionnaire
mcs4
MCS Age 7 Main and Partner Respondent Questionnaire
Face-to-face computer-assisted personal interviewing.
MCS Age 7 Cohort Member Paper Self-Completion
mcs_07_csc
MCS Age 7 Cohort Member Paper Self-Completion
Self-administered survey using a traditional paper questionnaire.
MCS Age 7 Teacher Paper Questionnaire
mcs4_teacher
MCS Age 7 Teacher Paper Questionnaire
Self-administered survey using a traditional paper questionnaire.
MCS Age 7 Cognitive Assessments and Physical Measurements
mcs_07_cpa
MCS Age 7 Cognitive Assessments and Physical Measurements
Assessment of physical properties of living beings, objects, material or natural phenomena. This includes medical and geographic data.
Assessment of knowledge, skills, aptitude or educational achievement by means of specialized measures or tests.