UK DATA ARCHIVE STUDY INFORMATION

Study Number 5594 - National Child Development Study: Biomedical Survey: Medication, Childhood Adversity and Sensitive Biomeasures, 2002-2004: Special Licence Access


DATA CURATION PROCEDURES

Data acquired for the UK Data Service collection undergo rigorous and comprehensive curation prior to publishing and release. This ensures that data, documentation and metadata are processed and published to the highest standard possible, both for ease of use in secondary analysis and for archival preservation.

The curation procedures carried out depend on the individual nature of each dataset and document, but as a general guide the following tasks are always undertaken:

NEW EDITION INFORMATION

These were that the number of variables in the special licence release was 123 (it is 122), and that there were 9294 cohort members in the data and not 9293. The sentence “You should also acknowledge CLS following the guidance from https://cls.ucl.ac.uk/data-access-training/citing-our-data/” was also added in the section “How to cite this guide”

INFORMATION ON CONDITION OF USE

The Data Collection is available to users registered with the UK Data Service.

Commercial use is not permitted.

Use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. Users must apply for access via a Special Licence application.

Additional conditions of use apply:

I agree not to use nor attempt to use the Data Collections to identify the individuals from which the study sample was selected, nor to claim to have done so.

I agree not to link between the research identifiers supplied by the UK Data Service [NCDSID] and any other identifiers previously issued.