The Malmö longitudinal study on education
Malmöundersökningen
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Contact information
Denny Vågerö / CHESS
University of Stockholm
106 91 Stockholm
Sweden
Phone: +468-162000
Email: Denny.vagero(at)chess.su.se
Url:
http://www.chess.su.se/
Timeliness, transparency
Data is only available for research purposes (agreement with principal investigator needed).Access to data
Data is only available for research purposes; an agreement with the principal investigator is needed.
Conditions of access
Contact principal investigator
Between two and four months
anonymised microdata, aggregated tables, etc.
Dataset is compatible to Excel, SAS, SPSS, STATA, Text, etc.
Dataset is in Swedish – general information is available in English.
Coverage
The Malmö study is one of the oldest longitudinal study in education. The cohort includes all the third graders in the county of Malmö in 1938 with a total of 1,542 pupils were included in the study, of which 1,342 were normal-aged (born 1928). Register data has been collected at intervals, fourteen times: 1948, 1953, 1958, 1963, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1991, and 1993. For the five first occasions, the county tax registers were the source of information, and the people involved collected data more or less manually. For 1969 and 1971, data was bought from Statistics Sweden, while from 1978 and onward data was bought from SPAR (a special State Register established at the State Computing Center (DAFA) in 1978).
Additional studies have been done in recent years.
1938
Registry plus cohort follow ups
cohort of school pupils 1938 in Malmö City
10 years of age at start – today 85 years of age for surviving respondents
Malmö
IQ, school achievement, health and family context, social selection and occupation over the life span.
• Lager, A. “The role of education and cognitive skills in understanding mortality inequalities.” Dissertation, University of Stockholm (2011).
• Lager, A., Bremberg, S., & Vågerö, D. “The association of early IQ and education with mortality: 65 year longitudinal study in Malmö, Sweden.” BMJ 339(b5282) (2009).
• Lager, A., Vågerö, D., & Bremberg, S. “The effects of own childhood intelligence, own education and partner’s education on mortality between age 54 and 78: A prospective study.” [Submitted]
• Lager, A., & Torssander, J. “The causal effect of education on mortality: 58-year follow-up of a quasi-experiment on 1.2 million Swedes.” [Submitted]
• Lager, A., Modin, B., De Stavola, B., & Vågerö, D. “Social origin, schooling and individual change in intelligence during childhood influence long-term mortality: a 68-year follow-up study.” International Journal of Epidemiology 41(2) (2012): 398-404. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyr139
• Sandgren, S. "Learning and earning: studies on a cohort of Swedish men". Dissertation. KTH, Skolan för arkitektur och samhällsbyggnad (ABE), Fastigheter och (2005).
Data quality
Contact principal investigator.
In 1964, Husén, together with a group at his department, carried out the first questionnaire follow-up, while at the same time collecting data from registers. In 1971, 1984 and 1994 further questionnaires were distributed and collected. The response rate has generally been between 72 and 75 per cent.
High level of consistency during the process of investigation.
Applicability
The strength of this dataset is that it provides the possibility to follow a cohort in a life-course perspective from education to work, family building and retirement. It can also focus on the role of early cognitive skills and its impact on adaptation in a life-course perspective. The weaknesses is, of course, that it is a selective geographical context.
- The information about this dataset was compiled by the author:
- Kenneth Abrahamsson
- (see Partners)