1970 British Cohort Study: Age 21 Sample Survey, 1992

<p>The <em>1970 British Cohort Study</em> (BCS70) began in 1970 when data were collected about the births and families of babies born in the United Kingdom in one particular week in 1970. Since then, there have been nine further full data collection exercises in order to monitor the cohort members' health, education, social and economic circumstances. These took place when respondents were aged 5 in 1975, aged 10 in 1980, aged 16 in 1986, aged 26 in 1996, aged 30 in 1999-2000 (SN 5558), aged 34 in 2004-2005, aged 42 in 2012, aged 46 in 2016-2018 and aged 51 in 2021-2024. A range of sub-studies has also been conducted, including SN 4715, <span style="font-style: italic;">1970 British Cohort Study: Age 21 Sample Survey, 1992</span> and SN 7064, <span style="font-style: italic;">1970 British Cohort Study: Age 10, Sweep 3 Special Needs Survey, 1980.</span></p><p>Further information about the BCS70 and may be found on the <a title="Centre for Longitudinal Studies" href="https://cls.ucl.ac.uk/cls-studies/1970-british-cohort-study/" target="_blank">Centre for Longitudinal Studies</a> website. As well as BCS70, the CLS now also conducts the NCDS series.</p> The <span style="font-style: italic;">1970 British Cohort Study: Age 21 Sample Survey, 1992</span> was the fourth sample follow-up of the 1970 BCS cohort. It focused principally on: youth training; full-time education; post-school vocational qualifications; unemployment; current or most recent employment; literacy and numeracy.<br>
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