The use of new technologies on the British Birth Cohort Studies

This paper is drawn from the 2012 Social Research Association annual conference, and covers how new technologies are being used on the British Birth Cohort Studies.

Social Research Association annual conference: ‘Social Research in the Digital Age’

British Library, 10 December 2012

Lisa Calderwood

Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education

The use of new technologies on the British Birth Cohort Studies

In recent years, there has been a rapid increase in the use of new technologies such as web-enabled portable devices (i.e. smartphones and tablets) and social media (e.g. Facebook and Twitter). There is also growing concern about rising costs and falling response rates on ‘traditional’ surveys. In this context, many large-scale surveys are considering using the web for data collection,...

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