Cohort Profile: The Scottish Longitudinal Study (SLS)
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COHORT PROFILE Cohort Profile: The Scottish Longitudinal Study (SLS)
This article describes the establishment of the Scottish Longitudinal Study (SLS). The study is similar in design to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Longitudinal Study (LS), which has been running for over 30 years and the Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study (NILS), which has been established only recently. However, the SLS differs from the LS and NILS is a number of ways. Subsequently...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0300-5771,1464-3685
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyn087