Study members were first asked about their children in 1966 (at age 20 years). Since then the birth of each child to a study member has been recorded throughout their adult life including date of birth and sex of the child.  

Derived variables include the number of children born to each study member and the age of the study member at the time of each birth. These were first created up to 1982, and then updated at 1989, 1999 and 2006-10. The age at the birth of their last child has also been derived. As very few women have had children since the age of 43 years an additional variable was derived which imputed for missing values the total number of children born by 1999 to be the figure from 1989. This imputation was only undertaken for women.

In 1989 and 1999 study members were asked whether they had had any grandchildren, but the date of birth was only recorded for the first grandchild.

In 2014-16, study members were also asked whether they had any grandchildren, but the questions were more focused on caring for grandchildren or for visiting grandchildren.

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