Summary information

Study title

British Preschool-Children's Play Survey, 2023

Creator

Dodd, H., University of Reading, School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences
Hesketh, K., University of Cambridge, MRC Epidemiology Unit

Study number / PID

9308 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-9308-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.


The British Preschool-Children's Play Survey, 2023, was designed to correspond in part with the British Children's Play Survey, conducted in 2020 (see SN 8793). The questions focused on children's play, screen time and mental health. For play, caregivers reported the time children spent playing in seven locations and the corresponding adventure levels. Caregivers then also reported the amount of time their child spent on screens for recreational and educational purposes and completed measures of their children's affect and mental health, as well as their own mental health. Data were collected via a survey conducted with a nationally representative sample of 1,166 parents/caregivers of children aged 2-4 years (52% male; 88% White), living in Britain. 


Main Topics:

Preschool children's play; preschool children's screen use; wellbeing; parent wellbeing; childcare.

Methodology

Data collection period

01/01/2023 - 31/12/2023

Country

Great Britain

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

Families/households
National

Universe

1166 parents living in the UK who had a child aged 2-4 years at the time of completing the survey.

Sampling procedure

Active sampling to be representative of the population of Great Britain.

Kind of data

Numeric

Data collection mode

Self-administered questionnaire

Funding information

Grant number

MC_UU_00006/5

Grant number

107337/Z/15/Z

Grant number

MR/X015033/1

Access

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

2024

Terms of data access

The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.