UK DATA ARCHIVE STUDY INFORMATION

Study Number 5795 - Millennium Cohort Study: Age 5, Sweep 3, 2006


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

For the ninth edition (January 2022), a new data file mcs3_family_interview has been added due to the family level data being split out from the parent-level data to make future merging with MCS8 onwards easier. Two data files (mcs3_parent_interview and mcs3_parent_cm_interview) have been updated to include variables that were missed from the previous edition due to a technical error. In addition, mcs3_hhgrid has had some data edits applied.

INFORMATION ON CONDITION OF USE

The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.

Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.

Personal/genealogical use of these data is not permitted.

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; and

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