Country: United Kingdom

Study Design: Observational cohort with repeated measurements over time

Participant age range:​ ​Children / adolescents at enrollment

Number of participants at baseline: 18,818

Year of initial enrollment: 2000

Number of data collection waves: 7; data collection ongoing

Measures of well-being:

• Subjective happiness

• Social support / integration / cohesion

Quantity of well-being measures (e.g., number of constructs, number of times of well-being was assessed: Low

Quality of well-being measures (e.g., were measures reliable and valid in the study population): Moderate

Measures of physical health: ​

• Self-rated / questionnaire-based health

• Self-report medical history or medication use

• Measured anthropometrics, e.g., weight

• Limited biomarkers

Access information:

This dataset is available to all researchers.

Researchers are required to submit an application to access this data. No fees are required to access this dataset.

Notable Citation: Connelly R & Platt L. (2014). Cohort profile: UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS). International Journal of Epidemiology, 43(6), 1719-1725.