CLOSER Discovery

Health visitors collected information from health records and interviewed mothers at home about the health, home and family circumstances of the mother and baby. They made assessments of maternal care and home circumstances. Topics covered include: development of the baby, domestic accidents, infectious diseases, immunisation, miscellaneous illnesses, immunisation, feeding, infant welfare, baby's sleeping arrangements, use of nurseries and the dwelling and the household.

Study website: https://www.nshd.mrc.ac.uk/

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1948 Follow-up Survey

Face-to-face paper and pencil interviewing.

Collecting and assembling data from multiple, often heterogeneous sources that have one or more reference points in common, and at least one of the sources was originally produced for other purposes.