Brabant Cohort: Dutch Student Intelligence and Socioeconomic Outcomes, 1952-1993

A Dutch cohort of students in their final year of primary school in 1952 in the province of Noord-Brabant. The data contains information on intelligence and parental background from 1952, with follow-up socioeconomic and health outcomes measured in 1983 and 1993. The derived file was prepared by J.L.W. van Kippersluis and is hosted by DANS Data Station Social Sciences and Humanities.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between childhood intelligence and adult socioeconomic status based on the follow-up measurements.
• Study the long-term health outcomes of a specific birth cohort based on the 1983 and 1993 health data.
• Model the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status based on the 1952 parental background variables.
• Investigate life-course trajectories by linking childhood characteristics to mid-life outcomes mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Longitudinal design with follow-up measurements spanning over 40 years, from 1952 to 1993.
• Data is derived and cleaned from a source file with a persistent identifier (urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-z1p-xu6).
• Includes multiple variable types: intelligence, parental background, socioeconomic status, and health outcomes.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the cohort being solely from the Dutch province of Noord-Brabant.

Provenance

Source

Derived from the 'Brabantse zesdeklassers, 1952-2010' file prepared by Mars Cramer and Mirjam van Praag.

Collection Method

Cohort study with follow-up surveys.

Time Range

Primary data from 1952, with follow-ups in 1983 and 1993.

Freshness

Last updated 2025-10-24 03:27:13; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Province of Noord-Brabant, Netherlands.