IJE Advance Access originally published online on December 23, 2005
International Journal of Epidemiology 2006 35(3):541-545; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi300
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Cohort Profile: The Metropolit 1953 Danish Male Birth Cohort
1 Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
2 Epidemiology//ISF, University of Southern Denmark, J.B. Winsløws vej 9B, 5000 Odense C, Denmark
3 National Institute of Public Health, Østre Farimagsgade 5A, 2nd floor, 1399 Copenhagen K, Denmark
* Corresponding author. E-mail: mosler@health.sdu.dk
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The Danish Metropolit project was established in 1965. The main initiator of the project was Kaare Svalastoga, the first professor of sociology at the Institute of Sociology, University of Copenhagen. In the late 1950s, Svalastoga attempted to promote a collaborative project between researchers from Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, the aim of which was to establish a prospective study covering early school age to early mid-life, which dealt with intergenerational mobility and differential life-chances in each of the four countries. Only boys were to be included since social mobility at that time was regarded to be most closely connected with the male breadwinner's occupation. In addition, deviant behaviour (one area of research interest) was assumed to be more prevalent in boys. The result of his effort was the establishment of a Danish and a Swedish cohort, the former called the Metropolit study. Details of the Swedish cohort are published in
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