International Longitudinal Studies
North America
US: National Children's Study (External website) - involves some 100,000 children from birth to age 21 to better understand the link between the environments in which children are raised, and their physical and emotional health and development.
US: Early Childhood Longitudinal, Birth Cohort of 2001 (External website) - follows a nationally-representative sample of children born in 2001 through kindergarten entry.
US: Child Development Supplement to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (External website) - a nationally representative study of children and their families in the US, first samples taken in 1997.
US: Children and Young Adults of the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (External website) - a nationally representative sample of 12,686 young men and women who were 14-22 years old when they were first surveyed in 1979.
Canada: The National Longitudinal Survey and Children and Youth (External website) - biennial study of Canadian children that follows their development and well-being from birth to early adulthood.
Europe
Denmark: The Danish National Birth Cohort (External website) - follows more than 100,000 women from pregnancy through birth.
Denmark: The Danish Longitudinal Survey of Children (DALSC) (External website) - follows 6000 children born in 1995, studying their family conditions and development.
France: ELFE (Growing up in France) (External website) - The French Longitudinal Study of Children aims to build a cohort of 20,000 children followed from birth to adulthood.
Europe: European Longitudinal Study of Pregnancy and Childhood (ELSPAC) (External website) - comprises over 40,000 children from GB, Isle of Man, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russia, Ukraine, partly Croatia and Estonia and initially, Greece and Spain, born from 1991 to 1995.
Asia and Australasia
Australia: Growing up in Australia (External website) - follows the progress of some 10,000 children to identify policy opportunities for improving support for children and their families.
Thailand: A study of the health consequences of population change and the effects of health interventions in households in the Western Central region of Thailand. (External website)
Kenya: Range of malaria and other infectious disease epidemiological questions in a semi-rural coastal area of Kenya with low HIV prevalence. (External website)
Malawi: Study of the demography and communicable disease epidemiology of Karonga. (External website)
South Africa: Birth to Twenty (External website) - a study of health and well-being of more than 3,000 children born in Soweto-Johannesburg in early 1990.
South Africa: To describe the health impact of a rapidly spreading HIV epidemic in individuals in a rural area of South Africa. (External website)
South Africa: The effects of infant feeding practices on HIV infection rates at 6 and 22 weeks of age. (External website)
