The MCS is embedded within an intergenerational, multiagency record linkage
study, the New South Wales Child Development Study, which permits MCS data to be interpreted in the context of longitudinal data that is subject to minimal selection and participation
study, the New South Wales Child Development
Study, which permits MCS data to be interpreted in the context of longitudinal data that is subject to minimal selection and participation
Study, which
permits MCS data to be interpreted in the context of
longitudinal data that is subject to minimal selection and participation bias.
It is also important to remember that, although
longitudinal studies (by showing evidence of temporal order) are far more powerful than cross-sectional ones in the search for possible causal relationships, they still do not
permit any strong causal inferences.