Growing Up in Scotland: Child Cohort (GUS)
Growing Up in Scotland tracks the lives of thousands of young people and their families from the early years, through childhood, and now as they move into adulthood. It comprises three cohorts of children: one child cohort and two birth cohorts. The Growing up in Scotland: Child Cohort contains almost 3,000 children born between June 2002 and May 2003. Four sweeps of data were collected from their families from the age of just under 3 years old to around 6 years old.
Study design
Cohort - birth
Number of participants at first data collection
2,858 (participants)
Age at first data collection
2 - 3 years (participants)
Participant year of birth
2002 - 2003 (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
All families with children born in 2002 - 2003 living in Scotland.
Sample features
Countries
Year of first data collection
2005
Primary Institutions
Scottish Centre for Social Research
University of Edinburgh (University o Edinburgh, Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann)
Profile paper DOI
Not available
Funders
Scottish Government
Ongoing?
No
Data types collected
- Interview – face-to-face
- None
- None
- Education data
- Healthcare data
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups
