The Impact of Disability on the Lives of Young Children: Analysis of Growing Up in Scotland Data

Footnotes

1. The question was slightly different at sweep one, referring to health problems or disabilities that lasted or were expected to last for more than a year rather than 'a period of time'.

2. The question was slightly different at sweep one, referring to health problems or disabilities that lasted or were expected to last for more than a year rather than 'a period of time'.

3. Bromley, C. (2010) Growing Up in Scotland: Health inequalities in the early years, Edinburgh: Scottish Government

4. In sweep 3, 267 respondents identified their child as still having a longstanding illness or disability that they had identified at the previous sweep, but then answered 'no' to the question 'Does ^childname have any longstanding illness or disability? By longstanding I mean anything that has troubled ^him over a period of time or that is likely to affect ^him over a period of time?'

5. Mothers were asked which sources of information they used from a list of eight (including other) if they had any questions or concerns during their pregnancy.

6. Parkes, A. and Wight, D. (2010) Growing Up in Scotland: Parenting and children's health, Edinburgh: Scottish Government.

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12. Chanfreau, J., Barnes, M., Tomaszewski, W., Philo, D., Hall, J. and Tipping, S. (2011) Growing Up in Scotland: Change in early childhood and the impact of significant events, Edinburgh: Scottish Government.

13. Such questions have tended to focus on childcare which is addressed in the next section.

14. This contradicts some of the earlier data on use of GPs, but the question here was specifically on whether there was a GP in the local area and did the parent use it rather than general use of GPs for health advice whether or not the practice happened to be in the local area.

15. Note that limiting disability cannot be defined in the sweep 1 data

16. For example, see Chanfreau, J., Barnes, M., Tomaszewski, W., Philo, D., Hall, J. and Tipping, S. (2011) Growing Up in Scotland: Change in early childhood and the impact of significant events, Edinburgh: Scottish Government