Guides to using ONS LS data

Our thematic guides provide information on the variables available in the LS and suitable research designs, and give indications of sample sizes.

• Births and fertility
• Defining a study population
• Discrepancy variables
• Ethnicity
• Events
• Households and families
• Imputation flag variables
• International migration
• Mortality
• Socio-economic indicators

Acknowledgement and disclaimer:
The permission of the Office for National Statistics to use the Longitudinal Study to produce these thematic guides is gratefully acknowledged. The guides were prepared by the CeLSIUS User Support Officers. CeLSIUS is supported by the ESRC Census of Population Programme under project ES/V003488/1. CeLSIUS alone is responsible for the interpretation of the data.