Growing up In Ireland Cohort ’98 (Child Cohort) Wave 2 - 13 years, 2012

Study number (SN): 0020-02

CITATION

Central Statistics Office (CSO). (2014). Growing up In Ireland Cohort ’98 (Child Cohort) Wave 2 - 13 years, 2012. [dataset]. Version 1. Irish Social Science Data Archive. SN: 0020-02. URL http://www.ucd.ie/issda/data/GUIChild/GUIChildWave2

 

ABOUT THE STUDY

Growing Up in Ireland - the National Longitudinal Study of Children, is the first survey of its kind ever undertaken in Ireland and, as such, aims to explore the many and varied factors that contribute to or undermine the wellbeing of children currently living there. A two age cohort longitudinal design was adopted with one cohort of 11,134 infants (aged nine months) and the other of 8,568 nine-year olds, with a view to improving and understanding of children’s development across a range of domains. Since the survey is longitudinal in nature respondents in both cohorts are interviewed on a number of occasions over the folowing few years. The 8,568 children representing the nine-year cohort were born between 1st November 1997 and 31st October 1998.

The nine year cohort and their parents/guardians were interviewed for a second time at thirteen years of age. Data collection for the second wave at 13 years took place between August 2011 and March 2012 and resulted in a completed datafile of 7,525 cases.

 

MAIN TOPICS

  • Families
  • Children
  • Child Health
  • Child Development
  • Education
  • Child Day Care
  • Leisure Time Activities
  • Hobbies
  • Parental Role
  • Anthropometric Measurements

 

COVERAGE, UNIVERSE, METHODOLOGY

Population

The children of the Child Cohort were born between 1st November 1997 and 31st October 1998 and were aged 9 years at the time of the first data collection between August 2007 and May 2008. 8,568 families participated in the first wave while 7,525 took part at age 13 years (August 2011 - March 2012).

Observation units

  • Families / Households

Temporal coverage

From 08/2011 to 03/2012

Time dimension

Cohort study

Geographical coverage

Country: Ireland

Methods of data collection

  • CAPI (Computer Aided Personal Interviewing)
  • CASI (Computer Assisted Self Interviewing)

Sampling procedures

A two-stage design was adopted. In the first instance a random sample of Primary Schools was recruited and at the second stage a sample of nine-year old children was selected from the sample of schools. The design required that the sample be regionally representative with no spatial bias. In addition, no oversampling or booster sampling of subgroups was required. There was a total of 56,497 nine-year-olds registered in the Census of Population in 2006 so a sample size of 8,568 represented approximately 14 percent or about 1 in every 7 of the nine-year-olds resident in the country.

Response rate

7,525 cases

DATA AND DOCUMENTATION: FILES’ DESCRIPTION

 

Data (available through ISSDA application process)

File name

File format/s

Contents of file
GUI Data_ChildCohortWave2 SAS, SPSS, Stata Survey data using Convention A – questionnaire-based variable naming
XGUI Data_ChildCohortWave2 SAS, SPSS, Stata Survey data using Convention B – topic-based harmonised cross-wave variable naming
GUI Data_ChildCohortWave2_TimeUse SPSS Time Use Data

 

Documentation (available for download)

File name

 

File format/s

Contents of file

AMFCodebookCohort98at13Yrs

PDF

Cohort ’98 at 13 Years Codebook for Wave 2 of the Child Cohort 

Summary data dictionary Child - Wave 2 - AMF

PDF

Summary Data Dictionary for Wave 2 of the Child Cohort (at 13 years)

Questionnaires - Child - Wave 2

PDF

Questionnaires for Wave 2 of the Child Cohort (at 13 years)

Summary guide to the datasets - Child - Wave 2_V1.2

PDF

A Summary Guide to Wave 2 of the Child Cohort (at 13 years)

Time Use Data_GUI Wave 2 Child Cohort

PDF

Data Available From the Time-use Survey, Wave 2 of the Child Cohort (at 13 years)

Variable naming and longitudinal data dictionary - Child - Wave 1 & 2

 PDF Variable Naming Conventions and Longitudinal Data Dictionary for Wave 1 and Wave 2 of the Child Cohort of Growing Up in Ireland

Derived variables for the Child Cohort

 PDF Derived Variables in the 9-Year Cohort

 

 

ACCESS INFORMATION

Accessing the data

To access the data, please complete a ISSDA Data Request Form for Research Purposes - Pseudonymised Datasets, sign it, and send it to ISSDA by email.

For teaching purposes, please complete the ISSDA Data Request Form for Teaching Purposes - Pseudonymised Datasets, and follow the procedures, as above. Teaching requests are approved on a once-off module/workshop basis. Subsequent occurrences of the module/workshop require a new teaching request form.

Data will be disseminated on receipt of a fully completed, signed form. Incomplete or unsigned forms will be returned to the data requester for completion.

Copyright

The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth

Acknowledgements

Any work based in whole or part on resources provided by ISSDA, should  acknowledge: "Growing up In Ireland Cohort ’98 (Child Cohort) Wave 2 - 13 years, 2012" and also ISSDA, in the following way: “Accessed via the Irish Social Science Data Archive - www.ucd.ie/issda”.

Citation requirement

The data and its creators shall be cited in all publications and presentations for which the data have been used. The bibliographic citation may be in the form suggested by the archive or in the form required by the publication.

Bibliographical citation

Central Statistics Office (CSO). (2014). Growing up In Ireland Cohort ’98 (Child Cohort) Wave 2 - 13 years, 2012. [dataset]. Version 1. Irish Social Science Data Archive. SN: 0020-02. URL http://www.ucd.ie/issda/data/GUIChild/GUIChildWave2

Notification

The user shall notify the Irish Social Science Data Archive of all publications where she or he has used the data.

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