ISSDA
Irish Social Science Data Archive
Growing up In Ireland Cohort ’98 (Child Cohort) Wave 1 - 9 years, 2008
Study number (SN): 0020-01
CITATION
| Central Statistics Office (CSO). (2010). Growing up In Ireland Cohort ’98 (Child Cohort) Wave 1 - 9 years, 2008. [dataset]. Version 1. Irish Social Science Data Archive. SN: 0020-01. URL http://www.ucd.ie/issda/data/GUIChild/GUIChildWave1 |
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 following few years. The 8,568 children representing the nine-year cohort were born between 1st November 1997 and 31st October 1998.
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.
Observation units
- Families / Households
Temporal coverage
From 08/2007 to 05/2008
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
8,568 cases
DATA AND DOCUMENTATION: FILES’ DESCRIPTION
Data (available through ISSDA application process)
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Contents of file |
| GUI Data_9YearCohort | CSV, SAS, SPSS, Stata | Survey data using Convention A – questionnaire-based variable naming |
| XGUI Data_9YearCohort | SAS, SPSS, Stata | Survey data using Convention B – topic-based harmonised cross-wave variable naming |
| GUI Data_9YearCohort_TimeUse | SPSS | Time Use Data |
Qualitative data from Growing Up in Ireland Child Cohort Wave 1, 9 years, is available from the Irish Qualitative Data Archive (IQDA): https://doi.org/10.7486/DRI.6m31f4220
Documentation (available for download)
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Contents of file |
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Cohort ’98 at 9 Years Codebook for Wave 1 of the Child Cohort AMF |
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Data Dictionary for Wave 1 of the Child Cohort (at 9 years) |
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Summary Data Dictionary for Wave 1 of the Child Cohort (At 9 years) |
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Questionnaires for Wave 1 of the Child Cohort (at 9 years) |
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Sample design and response in Wave 1 of the Child Cohort (at 9 years) |
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A Summary Guide to Wave 1 of the Child Cohort (at 9 years) |
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Word Document |
Data Available From the Time-use Survey, Wave 1 of the Child Cohort (at 9 years) |
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Variable naming and longitudinal data dictionary - Child - Wave 1 & 2 |
Variable Naming Conventions and Longitudinal Data Dictionary for Wave 1 and Wave 2 of the Child Cohort of Growing Up in Ireland | |
| Derived variables in the 9-Year Cohort. |
LINKS
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 1 - 9 years, 2008" 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). (2010). Growing up In Ireland Cohort ’98 (Child Cohort) Wave 1 - 9 years, 2008. [dataset]. Version 1. Irish Social Science Data Archive. SN: 0020-01. URL http://www.ucd.ie/issda/data/GUIChild/GUIChildWave1
Notification
The user shall notify the Irish Social Science Data Archive of all publications where she or he has used the data.
