Scottish Government

Footnotes

1. Further information on the design, development and future of the project is available from the study website: www.growingupinscotland.org.uk
2. 35% of children in the child cohort had started school at the time of the sweep 3 interview. Amongst those families where the cohort child was at school, 50% were also using some form of childcare for the child compared with 91% of families where the child was not attending school.
3. Use of multiple provision in the child cohort drops even amongst those where the child is not attending school, 36% of whom use two providers at sweep 3, and 15% of whom use three or more.
4. This figure is for 'equivalised' income. The income that a household needs to attain a given standard of living will depend on its size and composition. For example, a couple with dependent children will need a higher income than a single person with no children to attain the same material living standards. "Equivalisation" means adjusting a household's income for size and composition so that we can look at the incomes of all households on a comparable basis.
5. The dependent variable in the model was whether the family used two or more childcare providers or not. Independent variables included: Mother's employment status, family type, household NS-SEC, household annual income, area deprivation and area urban-rural classification.
6. See Table A.1 in Appendix A
7. See Tables A.2 and A.3 in Appendix A
8. Table A.4, Appendix A
9. See Tables A.5 and A.6 in Appendix A
10. See Tables A.7 and A.8 in Appendix A
11. The testparm command tests the association of the overall categorical variable with the outcome measure. It tests the deviation from the null hypothesis, i.e. how much all the differences deviate from 0 in a single test. If p<0.05 then we can say the predictor variable is significantly associated with the outcome variable