Integrating area-based and national samples in birth cohort studies: the case of Life Study

Harvey Goldstein; Francesco Sera; Peter Elias; Carol Dezateux

doi:10.14301/llcs.v8i3.439

Integrating area-based and national samples in birth cohort studies: the case of Life Study

Harvey Goldstein, Francesco Sera, Peter Elias, Carol Dezateux

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The most recent UK birth cohort study, known as ‘Life Study’ was a longitudinal study planned to involve some 80,000 babies and comprised two components. The largest, the ‘Pregnancy Component’ was to consist of around 60,000 pregnant women who were to be recruited when attending for a routine antenatal ultrasound at selected maternity units in England. The other component, the ‘Birth Component’ was to be a random sample of intended size 20,000 live births across the UK. Recruitment to the cohort was to take place over a period of four years starting in 2015. Innovative sampling procedures had been designed and tested and a synthetic dataset produced with similar characteristics to the anticipated survey data was produced to study the performance of the sampling procedures and explore analysis strategies.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	281-289
Number of pages	10
Journal	Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Volume	8
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.14301/llcs.v8i3.439
Publication status	Published - 25 Jul 2017

Keywords

Cohort studies
Non-response
Attrition
Weighting
Probability sampling
Research design
Longitudinal studies

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