The Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research

Professor Ian Plewis

Professor of Social Statistics

Tel: 0161 306 6952
Fax: 0161 275 4722
ian.plewis@manchester.ac.uk

Room G30
CCSR
School of Social Sciences
Humanities Bridgeford Street
University of Manchester
MANCHESTER
M13 9PL

Ian Plewis joined CCSR as Professor of Social Statistics in September 2007 having previously worked at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education, University of London since 1999 where he was Professor of Longitudinal Research Methods in Education and where he now holds a visiting professorship. He is currently Chair of the Social Statistics Section of the Royal Statistical Society and is a Fellow of the Centre for Multilevel Modelling, University of Bristol.

Current projects:

Predicting and Preventing Non-Response in Cohort Studies

Breakdown of project information

International Centre for Life Course Studies in Society and Health (ICLS)
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Research Interests

The design and analysis of longitudinal studies.
Multilevel modelling as applied to longitudinal data.
Non-response, missing data and measurement error.
Educational inequalities.

Recently completed projects:

Changing Economic Circumstances in Childhood and their Effects on Subsequent Educational and other Outcomes (funded by Department for Work and Pensions).

Publications

Plewis, I, Lynn, P (2009) Statistical Modelling for Structured Longitudinal Designs Essex, , Wiley.
Leone, T, Plewis, I (2008) Who Uses Services for School Age Children: Evidence from National Evaluation of the Children's Fund Children & Society 22. 440-457
Plewis, I (2008) Modelling Repeated Measures On Family Members In Geographical Areas Research Methods Festival.
Plewis, I, Constantinos, K, DWP (2008) Changing economic circumstances in childhood and their effects on subsequent educational and other outcomes. London,.
Plewis, I, Ketende, S, Joshi, H., Hughes, G (2008) The Contribution of Residential Mobility to Sample Loss in a Birth Cohort Study: Evidence from the First Two Waves of the UK Millennium Cohort Study Journal of Official Statistics 24. 365-385
Rosel, J, Plewis, I (2008) Longitudinal Data Analysis with Structural Equations Methodology European Journal of Research Methods for the Behavioral and Social Sciences Issue 4. 37-50
Plewis, I (2007) The Millennium Cohort Study: Technical Report on Sampling (4th ed.). London, Institute of Education, University of London.
Plewis, I (2007) Non-response in a birth cohort study: the case of the Millennium Cohort Study International Journal of Social Research Methodology 10. 325-334
Plewis, I, Professorial Lecture (2007) Predictions, explanations and causal effects from longitudinal data. . Institute of Education, University of London
Plewis, I (2007) Contextual Effects on the Dynamics of Claiming Free School Meals Royal Statistical Society.
Plewis, I, CCSR Seminar Series, University of Manchester (2007) Income Effects and Educational Progress: Methodological Puzzles,Statistical Problems and Substantive Findings .
Plewis, I, University of Lancaster (2007) ESRC Researcher Development Initiative, .
Plewis, I, Bartley, M (2007) Increasing social mobility: an effective policy to reduce health inequalities Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A 170. 469-482
Plewis, I, Kallis, C (2007) Predicting Income and Income Change from other Socio-economic Variables Royal Statistical Society.
Plewis, I (2006) Do Changes in Household Income lead to Changes in Educational and Behavioural Outcomes? Bedford Group.
Plewis, I, Institute fo Child Health (2006) Non-Response in the National Child Development Study and its Effects on a Substantive Model .
Plewis, I, University of Edinburgh (2006) ESRC Researcher Development Initiative .
Plewis, I, Edwards, A, Barnes, M, Morris, K. (2006) Working to Prevent the Social Exclusion of Children and Young People: Final Lessons from the National Evaluation of the Children's Fund. London,.
Plewis, I, Ketende,S (2006) The Millennium Cohort Study: Technical Report on Response (1st ed.). London, Institute of Education, University of London.
Plewis, I, Vitaro, F, Tremblay, R (2006) Modelling repeated ordinal reports from multiple informants Statistical Modelling 6. 251-263
Plewis, I (2006) The Childrenâs Fund: Implementation, Targeting, Use and Impact UK Evaluation Society.
Plewis, I (2005) Modelling behaviour with multivariate multilevel growth curves Methodology 1. 71-80
Plewis, I, Bartley, M, Calderwood, L, Jayaweera,H, Ward, K, Dex, S., Joshi, H. (2005) Children's origins Bristol, , Policy Press.
Plewis, I, Dex, S., Joshi, H., Smith, K, Ward, K, Dex, S., Joshi, H. (2005) Children of the twenty first Century: From birth to nine months Bristol, , Policy Press.
Plewis, I, Hawkes, D, Department for Work and Pensions (2005) Feasibility study into the effects of low income, material deprivation and parental employment on outcomes for children both in adulthood and as children. London,.
Plewis, I, Mason, P (2005) What works and why: combining quantitative and qualitative approaches in large-scale evaluations International Journal of Social Research Methodology 8. 185-194
Plewis, I, Nathan, G, Calderwood, L, Hawkes, D (2004) National Child Development Study and 1970 British Cohort Study Technical Report: Changes in the NCDS and BCS70 Populations and Samples over Time (1st Edition) (ISBN 1898453497). London, University of London.
Plewis, I, Fielding, A (2003) What is multi-level modelling for? A critical response to Gorard (2003) British Journal of Educational Studies 51. 408-419
Plewis, I (2002) Modelling impact heterogeneity Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A 165. 31-38
Plewis, I (2002) Modelling ordinal data using MLwiN 14.
Plewis, I, Bartley, M (2002) Accumulated labour market disadvantage and limiting long-term illness: data from the 1971-1991 Office for National Statistics' Longitudinal study International Journal of Epidemiology 31.
Plewis, I, Ireson, J, Hallam, S, Hack, S, Clark, H (2002) Ability grouping in English secondary schools: effects on attainment in English, mathematics and science Educational Research and Evaluation 8. 299-318
Plewis, I (2001) Explanatory models for relating growth processes Multivariate Behavioral Research 36. 207-225
Plewis, I, Ireson, J, Hallam, S (2001) Ability grouping in secondary schools: effects on pupils' self-concepts British Journal of Educational Psychology 71. 315-326
Plewis, I, Preston, J (2001) Evaluating the benefits of lifelong learning. A framework. London, Institute of Education, University of London.
Plewis, I, Smith, G, Wright, G, Cullis, A, Department for Work and Pensions, Social Research Branch (2001) Linking child poverty and child outcomes: exploring data and research strategies.
Plewis, I (2000) Evaluating educational interventions using multilevel growth curves: the case of reading recovery Educational Research and Evaluation 6. 101
Plewis, I, Pantazis, C, Gordon, D (2000) Educational inequalities and education action zones Bristol, , Policy Press.
Plewis, I, Multilevel Models Project Team (2000) A user's guide to MLwiN. London, Institute of Education, University of London.

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