Neighbourhood & Neighbourhood & CitizenshipCitizenship

The clustered nature of the MCS sample makes it possible to separate individual /family effects on, for example, child development, from the contextual effects of neighbourhood.

NEIGHBOURHOOD & CITIZENSHIP – IAN PLEWIS (Ioe)

Current positionCurrent position

AA Data from interview:Data from interview:Views about area (general question &

8 .Items)

Single question about neighbours

A few questions about voting & interest .in politics

These data can be aggregated to get an estimate of the ward view/involvement

Current position Current position cont.cont.

BB Health Visitor survey – focus Health Visitor survey – focus on services for young childrenon services for young children

CC Administrative statistics from Administrative statistics from ONS Neighbourhood Statistics UnitONS Neighbourhood Statistics Unit

Addition of Ecological data to Addition of Ecological data to the Millennium Cohort Studythe Millennium Cohort Study

Neighbourhood StatisticsNeighbourhood StatisticsCrime

Economic Deprivation

Notifiable offences recorded by the police

England/Wales

Local Authority

University admissions by place of residence, 1997 and 1998

England Local authority wards

Primary school pupils at Key Stage 2, Summer 1998

England Ward

Education, skills and training

University admissions by place of residence, 1997 and 1998

England Local Authority Ward

Primary school pupils at Key Stage 2, Summer 1998

England Ward

Health

Attendance Allowance claimants

England, Wales, Scotland

Local Authority Ward

Disability Living Allowance England, Wales, Scotland

Local Authority Ward

Drug mis-users presenting for treatment, 1 October 1999 - 31 March 2000

England Health

Hospital Episode Statistics, 1999/00

England Local Authority Ward

WorkJobseeker's Allowance claimants England,

Wales, Scotland

Local Authority Ward

Incapacity Benefit claimants England, Wales, Scotland

Local Authority Ward

Severe Disablement Allowance claimants

England, Wales, Scotland

Local Authority Ward

VAT registered enterprises by industry group, March 2000

England, Wales, Scotland, NI

Ward

VAT registered enterprises by employment sizeband, March 2000

England, Wales, Scotland, NI

Ward

Employee jobs, September 1998 England, Wales, Scotland

Local Authority Ward

Claimant count - Oxford University ward level estimates

England Ward

Claimant count and claimant count rate (revised 29/09/01)

England, Wales, Scotland, NI

Local Authority

Indices of DeprivationIndices of Deprivation for wards in England, 2000

England Ward

Indices of Deprivation for districts in England, 2000

England Local Authority

Indices of Deprivation for electoral divisions in Wales, 2000

Wales Ward

Population and Vital StatisticsOxford University population estimates for wards in England, mid 1998

England Ward

Vital statistics, 1998 England, Wales

Local Authority Ward

Resident population estimates for local authorities in England, mid 1998

England Local Authority

Resident population estimates for local authorities in England, mid 1998

England Local Authority

Others

Topics that might be Topics that might be considered for Sweep 2:considered for Sweep 2:

1)1) Interview data about:Interview data about: Involvement in organised activities Local friends Views about area for bringing up children

2)2) Updating administrative dataUpdating administrative data3)3) Using interviewers to collect data about Using interviewers to collect data about

wards (physical characteristics, facilities wards (physical characteristics, facilities etc.) for example drawing on Jacqueline etc.) for example drawing on Jacqueline Barnes’ work, currently used in Sure Barnes’ work, currently used in Sure Start EvaluationStart Evaluation

4)4) Sampling issuesSampling issues

The MCS population is a The MCS population is a population of children population of children

defined as:defined as:•  all children born between 1 September

2000 and 31 August 2001 (for England and Wales), and between 1 December 2000 and 30 November 2001 (for Scotland and Northern Ireland), alive and living in the UK at age nine months;

 and, after nine months:

• for as long as they remain living in the UK.

SAMPLING ISSUES – IAN PLEWIS (IoE)

It follows from the way the MCS It follows from the way the MCS population is defined that the population is defined that the

sample at Sweep 2 should sample at Sweep 2 should include:include:

1) All children born between the designated dates still resident at the address in the sampled wards they had at age nine months;

2) All children born between the designated dates still resident somewhere in the UK but no longer at their nine-month address - we estimate that perhaps 20% of the sample will fall into this category.

We know that there was more undetected (by DWP) movement out of the sample wards between birth and age nine months than we had expected and hence an unknown amount of migration into the sample wards. The Health Visitors working in the sampled wards will have detected some of this in-migration but not all of it. Therefore, consideration should be given to obtaining, from DWP, lists of notified in-migrants to the sampled wards between the ages of nine and, say, 15 months.

These will include children who should have been in the sample at Sweep one, but whose families did not notify the Child Benefit Centre of their change of address in time to be included in the DWP file, and who were not picked up by the Health Visitors. They should be included in Sweep two (and all subsequent Sweeps), and treated as non-respondents at Sweep one.

ENGLAND: AdvantagedENGLAND: DisadvantagedENGLAND: EthnicWALES: AdvantagedWALES: DisadvantagedSCOTLAND: AdvantagedSCOTLAND: DisadvantagedN.IRELAND: AdvantagedN.IRELAND: Disadvantaged

TOTAL WARDSTOTAL WARDS

110 71 19 23 50 32 30 23 40

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Sample DispersalSample DispersalThe dispersal of the sample is likely to have

implications for fieldwork costs in that interviewers will be needed for those who have moved, in principle anywhere in the UK.

 It is possible that these fieldwork costs could

be reduced if the fieldwork period used for Sweep 2 were compressed into a shorter period. This would mean that children would be seen at different ages around 36 months - itself a possible scientific advantage - and that the number of visits interviewers had to make to each sampled ward could be reduced.

For example, fieldwork for Sweep 2 could start 30 months after the start of fieldwork for Sweep 1 and waves 1 and 7, 2 and 8 etc. could be combined to give a fieldwork period of 6 months, and a range of ages from 33 to 39 months.

This issue needs to be scrutinised both in terms of its scientific advantages and disadvantages as well as for its cost implications.