Millennium Cohort Study (MCS)
Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS), University College London
A birth cohort study following approximately 19,000 young people born in 2000-2002 across England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland through their life course. Researchers access data through CLS's data access portal with resources including documentation, a bibliography of 6,000+ publications, and training webinars, with a new consolidated core dataset released in July 2026.
Category
Open dataset
Access
Free registration
Region
UK — United Kingdom
Size
19,000 participants born 2000-02
Data types
birth cohort, longitudinal, education, health, social, economic