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| Description | Minutes, agendas and papers from NCDS Fourth Sweep/NCDS IV Steering Group meetings, and associated correspondence.
Subjects covered in the meetings:
Timetable and content of various sections of the questionnaire being worked on by different Government departments
Tracing
Role of interviewers
Staffing
Subcontractors - Market Research companies for carrying out the surveys
Questionnaire development
Questionnaire content
Tenders
Steering Committee views on social area analysis
Data analysis
Reports to sponsoring Government departments - Department of Employment, Department of Environment, Department of Education and Science, Department of Health and Social Security
Discussion of Government Departments rights to publish first in their policy interest
Placing NCDS4 Data in the SSRC Data Archive
Analysis and publication, and concerns over publication
Post-fieldwork timetable, including data cleaning
Costs
'Topics for analysis: prepared for the meetings of the NCDS IV Steering Committee on 23rd November 1981'
'Timetable for statistics and data processing', report for NCDS IV Steering Committee, 9/2/1982
'Working papers on Preliminary Analysis', Irene Bruegel, Oct 1982
'Comparing qualifications on education & training courses', Richard Ives, Nov 1982
Summary from J Littlewood (Department of Environment) of meeting between National Children's Bureau and Department of Environment, Dec 1982
National Children's Bureau, 'NCDS - Fourth follow-up preliminary tabulations - report to the Steering Committee September 1982', 4 volumes
'NCDS4: Report to MSC on additional tabulations', report dates 1981 but was filed with Jan 1983 similar reports
Various reports on topic development and analysis and Working Papers, 1982/1983
'The way ahead - paper for the NCDS IV Steering Committee meeting', 16/3/1983
CACI tabulations
'Area coding and its uses - Paper preapred by NCB for the meeting of NCDS4 Steering Committee, 25/5/1983'
Progress reports
1981 Census Data
Consortium access to NCDS4
Data to be deposited with ESRC Data Archive
Correspondence includes:
Note by DH, Jan 1982 re topics for Family Formation section of the questionnaire
Draft letter to Jack Barnes (DHSS) with paper on 'Exploitation of longitudinal data'
NCDS4 Codebook and Department of Employment, correspondence with Catherine Hakim (DE), July 1982
Letter from Vince Keddie (DHSS) to Ron Davie (National Children's Bureau) re 'Matters arising from the Steering Committee meeting of Wednesday 16th March', 29/3/1983
Correspondence with Vince Keddie re updates of data dictionary and progress with working papers, April - May 1983
Correspondence with Government departments re Working Papers
Dates of meetings:
6/8/1980 (first meeting)
3/2/1981
12/2/1981
23/11/1981
9/2/1982
13/9/1982 - Notes of a meeting between the NCDS Steering Committee and the National Children's Bureau. These minutes also contain handwritten annotations by Peter Shepherd disputing certain points of the records made in the minutes
28/9/1982 - Notes of a meeting between the NCDS Steering Committee and the National Children's Bureau.
16/3/1983 - There are no minutes or agenda for this meeting but there are papers for it and correspondence regarding the meeting
25/5/1983
13/7/1983
13/9/1983
16/11/1983
29/3/1984
22/5/1984
11/6/1984
4/10/1984 |