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International Journal of Epidemiology 2009 38(5):1215-1223; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn213
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Cohort Profile: West of Scotland Twenty-07 Study: Health in the Community

Michaela Benzeval*, Geoff Der, Anne Ellaway, Kate Hunt, Helen Sweeting, Patrick West and Sally Macintyre

MRC, Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow, UK.

* Corresponding author. Research Project Director, West of Scotland Twenty-07 Study: Health in The Community, MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, 4 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RZ, UK. E-mail: michaela@sphsu.mrc.ac.uk

Accepted 3 September 2008

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   How did study come about?
 
The West of Scotland Twenty-07 Study (Twenty-07 for short) was set up in 1986 by Sally Macintyre, Patrick West, Ellen Annandale, Kate Hunt, Graeme Ford, Rex Taylor, Sheila MacIver, Russell Ecob and Rory Williams at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Medical Sociology Unit, Glasgow (now the MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit).1 The aim of the Twenty-07 Study is to investigate, longitudinally, the social processes producing or maintaining inequalities in health by six key social positions: social class (defined, as was traditional at the time, as the main occupation of the head of household), gender, age, area of residence, marital status (now broadened to encompass family structure) and, in collaboration with other Unit programmes, ethnicity. Figure 1 illustrates the basic design of the study—it involves three cohorts 20 years apart—born around 1932 (dotted line), 1952 (dashed line) and 1972 (gray line)—with a planned follow-up period of 20 years, to . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   What does it cover: topics
 

   Who is the sample?
 

   How often have the cohorts been followed up?
 

   What has been measured?
 

   What is attrition like?
 

   What has been found: key findings and publications
 
Social class
Age
Gender
Area
Family composition
Ethnicity

   What are strengths and weaknesses?
 

   Where next?
 

   Can I get hold of the data? Where can I find out more?
 

   Funding
 

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