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The Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) is a multi-disciplinary research project following the lives of around 19,000 children born in the UK in 2000-01. It is the most recent of Britain’s world-renowned national longitudinal birth cohort studies. The study has been tracking the Millennium children through their early childhood years and plans to follow them into adulthood. It collects information on the childrens siblings and parents. MCS’s field of enquiry covers such diverse topics as parenting; childcare; school choice; child behaviour and cognitive development; child and parental health; parents employment and education; income and poverty; housing, neighbourhood and residential mobility; and social capital and ethnicity.
The children and families have been contacted 6 times since recruitment at ages nine months, 3, 5, 7, 11 & 14 years.
MCS is part of CLOSER (Cohort & Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources) which aims to maximise the use, value and impact of the UK’s longitudinal studies.
Last update: 16/01/2017
Types General population-based cohort
Participant Types No diagnosis
Countries United Kingdom
Genders Male and Female
Sample sizes 20,000 to 49,999
Ages 0 to 9|10 to 19|20 to 39|40 to 59|60 to 100
Brain related measures Behaviour|Cognitive function|Mental health
Funtional rating
Anthropometric Height|Waist circumference|Weight
Physical Cardiovascular|Hearing and Vision|Musculoskeletal|Respiratory
Biological samples Saliva
Genotyping
Brain imaging
Brain banking
Lifestyle Alcohol|Physical activity|Smoking
Socio-economic Education|Ethnic group|Family circumstances|Housing and accommodation|Marital status|Occupation and employment|Unpaid care
Health service utilisation
Institute names Centre for Longitudinal Studies
Current Sample Sizes 20,000 to 49,999
age at recruitment >0
last updated
recruitment period 2000-02
estimated current sample size number value 23610
cohort acronym MCS
start date 2000-02
pi Professor Emla Fitzsimons
website http://www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/mcs
contact details Centre for Longitudinal Studies
UCL Institute of Education
20 Bedford Way
London
WC1H 0AL
abstract MCS is a population cohort study looking at the health and social data of 19,000 millennium children (born in 2000-01) through their early years.
funders Economic and Social Research Council
contact email [email protected]
contact phone number +44 (0)20 7612 6875
estimated current sample size 20,000 to 49,999
sample sizes 38763