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Children and Young People in Denmark (CYPD) a national study on child wellbeing Benelux-Nordic expert meeting on child and youth wellbeing indicators. December 2009. The study - outline. Children and Young People in Denmark is a new panel study on child wellbeing

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December 2009

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  1. Children and Young People in Denmark (CYPD)a national study on child wellbeingBenelux-Nordic expert meeting on child and youth wellbeing indicators December 2009

  2. The study - outline • Children and Young People in Denmark is a new panel study on child wellbeing • First study to be made of children and young people’s everyday lives in Denmark • About 6,000 randomly sampled respondents from all over Denmark are participating in the survey. They represent five age groups: 3, 7, 11, 15 and 19 years.

  3. BACKGROUND • Started in 2009 and will be repeated every fourth year. The first report from the study will be published in 2010. • Funded by Bikuben Foundation • The Bikuben Foundation supports projects that are designed to provide a better life for socially vulnerable groups. • Carried out by SFI – The Danish National Centre for Social Research

  4. VISION AND AMBITION The study aims to: Provide insight into the distribution of child wellbeing in Denmark Provide knowledge for social work by identifying which categories of children are particularly vulnerable Provide benchmarks for child policies by monitoring changes over time

  5. DESIGN The study observes child wellbeing in Denmark by using internationally acknowledged social indicators developed for EU and UNICEF. However… For a detailed picture of Danish children we have added a broad range of supplementary indicators. The study uses microlevel data from both surveys and with rich information from Danish administrative registers These registers provide a broad range of demographic and socio-economic information about the total child population The unit of analysis is the child.

  6. A PANEL STUDY

  7. MODEL-MAKING – INFORMATION SOURCES

  8. Children and Young People’s everyday lives Material Wellbeing Subjective Wellbeing Housing and local area Health and safety Education/ day care Social relationships Behaviour/ lifestyle Social Participation Income poverty (1) Housing- standard (3) Health at birth (2) Day care/type of school(4) Family structure (8) Health- behaviour (5) Leasure Time (8) Health(1) Depriva- tion (4) Mobility/ turbulence (2) Prevention (3) School per- formance(4) Upbringing (7) Lifestyle and risk (7) Work (2) Personal wellbeing (2) Unem- ployment (1) Local area (3) Infant mortality (1-2) Education- participation (5) Family- conflicts (2) Vul- nerability (14) Consumption possibilities (1) Personal freedom (1) Local area- security (1) Health in general (2) Expectations for the future (3) Participation i family life (4) Afoul of the law (9) cultural habits (1-5) Wellbeing education (1) Morbidity (2) Family (1) Political interest (2) Friends (4-5) Other Network (1) MODEL- MAKING – MEASURING INSTRUMENTSDOMAINS AND SUBDOMAINS

  9. Children and Young People’s everyday lives Behaviour and life style Civic participation + leasure Subjective well-being Health behaviour (5) Leasure (8) Health (1) Proportion eating breakfast everyday Work (2) Personal wellbeing (2) Proportion eating fruit daily Consumption possibilities (1) Personal freedom (1) Proportion eating fastfood more than once a week Cultural habits (1-5) Wellbeing and education (1) Proportion drinking soda more than once a week Political interest (2) Proportion taking exercising at least once a week How often does exercise makes you breathless or sweaty? Lifestyle & risk (7) Vulnerability (14) Afoul of the law (9) MODEL-MAKING – MEASURING INSTRUMENTSDOMAINS, SUBDOMAINS, INDICATORS AND QUESTIONS

  10. MODEL- MAKING – MEASURING INSTRUMENTS • 8 domains • 36 subdomains • Apr. 100 indicators • Operationalized to survey questions: • 3-year-old: 56 questions • Mothers are respondents (internet-based questionnaire) • 7-year-old: 64 questions • Mothers are respondents (internet-based questionnaire) • 11-year-old: 73 questions • Child is respondent (face-to-face interviews) • 15-year-old: 87 questions • Teenager is respondent (internet-based questionnaire) • 19-year-old: 92 questions • Teenager is respondent (internet-based questionnaire)

  11. MODEL-MAKING – Background variables SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES • Age • Sex • Ethnicity • Regionality CONTEXT VARIABLES • Family type • Social class • Outside labormarket

  12. STATUS Data collected Coding and analyzing right now Too early to evaluate whether all selected indicators should be used in final analysis and in the report

  13. FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE STUDY

  14. FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE STUDY Please contact • Mai Heide Ottosen • Programme director, PH.D. • Direct phone +45 3348 0888, email mho@sfi.dk • SFI – The Danish National centre for Social Research • Herluf Trollesgade 11DK-1052 Copenhagen KDenmarkwww. sfi.dk

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