Briefly Describe the Main Features of the Variable(s) of Interest

The maximum length for the text of the assessment is EIGHT sides

of A4 paper (1.5 line spacing, 12 point, Times New Roman font with a 2.5cm margin

all around). Detailed results (regression output, graphs, etc.) relating to you answers to

question 1, 2, 3 and 4 should be put in an appendix. The appendix must be a

MAXIMUM of TEN sides. You should make reference the appropriate page of the

appendix from the main text when referring to your results in the appendix. Please

note that both the main text and the appendix must be submitted as ONE document.

This assignment uses the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70), which is a continuing,

longitudinal study which takes as its subjects all those living in England, Scotland and

Wales who were born in one particular week in April 1970. Since 1970 there have

been six attempts to gather information from the whole cohort. With each successive

attempt, the scope of enquiry has broadened from a strictly medical focus at birth, to

encompass physical and educational development at the age of five, physical,

educational and social development at the ages of ten and sixteen, and then to include

economic development and other wider factors at 26, 29 and 34 years.

The data file bcs70-assess1_1516.dta contains the results from all four quarters of the

survey together for the main household respondent and can be found on the EC226