Millennium Cohort Study: Exploration of some Distinctive Results for Scotland

DescriptionThe Millennium Cohort Study offers large-scale information about children born into the New Century and the families who are bringing them up. This Report takes three distinctive differences in the Scotland data (children's cognitive scores, family poverty and incidents of breastfeeding) and provides further multivariate analysis to examine whether the distinctive results are due to differences in the characteristics of MCS families in Scotland and the rest of the UK.
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Official Print Publication Date
Website Publication DateJanuary 25, 2008

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Edited by Shirley Dex
Centre for Longitudinal Studies
Institute of Education, University of London

ISBN 978 0 7559 6895 4 (Web only publication)

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CONTENTS

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Children's cognitive scores
Family poverty
Breastfeeding of babies

1. INTRODUCTION
Introduction to the Millennium Cohort Study
Topics analysed in this Report
Approach to the analysis

2. CHILDREN'S AGE 3 COGNITIVE AND BEHAVIOURAL SCORES.
British Ability Scale -Vocabulary analyses
Cognitive and Behavioural measures used of children in MCS2 at age 3.
Bracken Basic School readiness analyses
Total difficulties analyses
Conclusions

3. FAMILY POVERTY AT AGE 3
Defining Poverty in the Millennium Cohort Study

4. BREASTFEEDING OF BABIES

References

ANNEX of Tables
Details of Millennium Cohort Study

The views expressed in this report are those of the researcher and
do not necessarily represent those of the Department or Scottish Ministers.

This report is available on the Scottish Government Social Research website only
www.scotland.gov.uk/socialresearch.

Page updated: Tuesday, December 18, 2007