Finding out how today's teens tick
The Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) will be conducting an age 14 survey after receiving funding of £3.5 million from the Economic and Social Research Council. Scheduled for 2015, the survey acts as the next phase of the birth cohort study. The MCS follows the lives of 19,000 children born in the UK in 2000-01. Five surveys of cohort members have been carried out so far at the ages of nine months, three, five, seven and eleven years. Welcoming the announcement, Minister for Universities and Science David Willetts said: "This £3.5 million investment will build on the UK’s proud history of