Lifeways Cross-Generation Cohort Study

Lifeways is a unique cohort study, designed to capture Irish longitudinal life-course data, by recruiting three generations of the same family. Participants, who are essentially well at baseline, are followed up over time. As outcomes or diseases slowly develop, baseline data are then analysed to identify lifestyle, socio-economic and health service factors, which are associated with these outcomes.

Purpose: The Lifeways Cross-Generation Cohort Study was established to assess the influence of socio-economic, lifestyle, cross-generational and health service factors associated with health and development, and contains data on mothers, fathers, children, and grandparents.

Coverage: As of Mar 2022 1,133 families have been involved, recruited from the Dublin and Galway City catchment areas. Study data is available on 1,133 mothers, 1,114 children, 505 fathers and 1,604 grandparents. Data collection commenced in 2001 with gone through multiple rounds of collection and is currentl

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Additional Info

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Contact points
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Name
UCD School of Public Health
Email
data@ucd-school-of-public.ie
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Publisher 1
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Name
UCD School of Public Health
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URL
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http://purl.org/adms/publishertype/NationalAuthority
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Homepage
Landing page
Release date January 1, 2001
Modification date August 22, 2025
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Version notes
Identifier NDC-0078
Frequency http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/frequency/QUARTERLY
Provenance

Data is collected from a variety of sources including questionnaires, electronic ante-natal and birth records; immunisation records from HSE; child and adult health records; GP note searches; analysis of clinical samples. Follow-up rounds of data collection are performed at key developmental points: during pregnancy, Child aged 0, aged 3/year 4, aged 5/year 6, aged 9/10, with a year 20-21 follow-up planned. A scientific newsletter was sent to 777 families in January 2022.
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Temporal coverage
Temporal coverage 1
Start
January 1, 2001
End
July 17, 2024
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Spatial coverage 1
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http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/country/IRL
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Ireland
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Access rights http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/access-right/RESTRICTED
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Theme
  1. http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/data-theme/HEAL
Language
  1. http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/ENG
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  1. http://health.europa.eu/ehds/category/registries
Health theme
  1. http://health.europa.eu/theme/chronic-disease
  2. http://health.europa.eu/theme/public-health
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Minimum typical age 0
Maximum typical age 65
Number of records 1235577
Number of records for unique individuals. 497616
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