Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study
- Abstract
- The LS is a data set comprising linked census and event records for 1% of the population of England and Wales (about 500,000 people at any one census). It was set up in 1974.
- Main Topics/Subject Category
- Occupation, economic activity, housing, ethnicity, age, sex, marital status and education. Events data on births & deaths, fertility, mortality, migration and cancer registrations.
- Variables
- Age, sex, marital status, family, household or communal establishment type, housing, including tenure, rooms and amenities, country of birth, and (in 1971) parent's country of birth, ethnicity (1991 & 2001), educational qualifications, economic activity, occupation and social class, migration and travel to work, long-standing illness (1991 & 2001) and self-rated health (2001), religion (2001), care giving (2001), marriage and fertility history (1971).
- http://www.celsius.lshtm.ac.uk/census.html
- Keywords
- Age, age fertility, age illness, age marital, cancer, ccc, communal, diagnosis, education, ethnic, family, family communal, family ethnic, family fertility, family geog, family illness family marital, family socio-economic, fertility, fertility age, fertility marital, fertility mortality, fertility, age at birth, geog, geog small-area, health, health, household, household, household communal, household marital, household socio-economic, household, ethnic, illness, ls, ls communal, marital, marital age, marital fertility, mortality, occupation, occupation family travel to work, occupation geog, occupation geog travel to work, occupation socio-economic, occupation travel to work, registrar, sex, sex fertility, small-area, small-area age, small-area area-classification, small-area ethnic, small-area family, small-area fertility, small-area geog, small-area household, small-area illness, small-area marital, small-area occupation, small-area occupation socio-economic, small-area socio-economic, small-area travel to work, socio-economic, socio-economic family, socio-economic household, tracing, travel to work
- Identifier Variables
- N/A
- Economic/Subject Categories
- Demographics
- Area of Health System
- Other
- Data Available
- Demographic
- Data collecting organization (s)
- Data Type
- Administrative
- National/Regional
- National
- Coverage (date of field work)
- 1971, 1981, 1991, 2001
- Unit of Analysis
- Individual
- Sample
- 1% of the population of England and Wales (about 500,000 people at any one census)
- Availability
- ONS and longitudinal Study Support (CeLSIUS)
- Conditions of Access
- Free access
- Link
- http://www.ons.gov.uk/census/index.html %% http://www.celsius.lshtm.ac.uk/ %% http://www.census.ac.uk/
- Contact
- census.customerservices@ons.gsi.gov.uk, celsius@lshtm.ac.uk
- Publications
- http://www.celsius.lshtm.ac.uk/publications/pubkeydrill.php?back=no&keyword=birth