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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 |