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Growing Up in Ireland (GUI) Cohort ’08 (Infant Cohort) Wave 4 - 7/8 years, 2016 Growing Up in Ireland (GUI) Cohort ’08 (Infant Cohort) Wave 4 - 7/8 years, 2016 doi:10.7929/ISSDA/1XDVUF0019-04 Central Statistics Office (CSO) ISSDAIrish Social Science Data Archive 2018 Social SciencesAnthropometric dataChild day careChild developmentChild healthChildrenEducationFamiliesHobbiesLeisure time activitiesParental role ChildrenGeneral health and well-beingCompulsory and pre-school education Growing Up in Ireland - the National Longitudinal Study of Children is a landmark study of children and youth which has been running since 2006. The objectives of the study are outlined in a separate publication (Greene et al. 2010) but can be summarised as seeking to collect data on what it means to grow up a child in Ireland, with a view to informing policy on what both helps and hinders development. A two cohort, cross-sequential longitudinal design was adopted and began with one cohort (the Infant Cohort) of 11,134 infants (aged 9 months) and a second cohort (the Child Cohort) of 8,568 9-year olds. Being longitudinal in nature, the same children are followed over time. The families of the Infant Cohort have been interviewed when the children were 9 months, 3 years and subsequently 5 years of age, while the Child Cohort and their parents/guardians were interviewed at 9, 13 and 17/18 years of age. This wave of data concerns a postal survey of the Primary Caregivers of the children in the Infant Cohort when those children were 7/8 years old. 2016-022016-06 Ireland Family: Household family The children of the Infant Cohort were born between 1st December 2007 and the 30th June 2008 and were aged 9 months at the time of the first data collection between September 2008 and April 2009. Over 10,000 families participated in the first wave (n=11,134) while 9,793 took part at age 3 years (Dec 2010 - July 2011), and 9,001 at age 5 years (Mar – Sep 2013). The current fourth wave of data collection, a postal questionnaire, took place in the spring of 2016, when the cohort was 7/8 years of age and was completed by 5,344 families. Survey data Longitudinal: Cohort/Event-based The target population for sampling at Wave 4 was made up of the children and families who participated in Wave 2 and/or Wave 3, as well as most of those who participated at Wave 1 but refused or otherwise did not participate at one or both of the next waves due to family circumstances at that time (e.g. due to the birth of a new baby or temporary absence from the country during the fieldwork period). Families who had moved abroad, moved within Ireland with no forwarding address, or had requested at Wave 2 or Wave 3 to be removed from the study, were not issued at Wave 4. Thus the Wave 4 sample had four components: those children and families who participated in all three earlier waves of the study; those who had participated only in Wave 1; those that participated in Waves 1 and 2; and those children and families who had participated in Waves 1 and 3. Just over 95 per cent of the families at Wave 4 had participated in all previous waves, while approximately 1 per cent had participated at Wave 1 but not at Wave 2 or 3. Two per cent of the Wave 4 study sample completed all except Wave 2, and a final 2 per cent completed all but Wave 3. Self-administered questionnaire: Paper ISSDA may only supply data for use in the EEA and adequacy decision countries. The data and its creators shall be cited in all publications and presentations for which the data have been used. The data citation may be in the form on the dataset page or in the form required by the publication<br> Any work based in whole or part on resources provided by ISSDA, should acknowledge: "Growing Up in Ireland (GUI) Cohort ’08 (Infant Cohort) Wave 4 - 7/8 years, 2016" and also ISSDA, in the following way: “Accessed via the Irish Social Science Data Archive - www.ucd.ie/issda”.<br> Growing Up in Ireland Study Team (2017). Key findings: Infant Cohort (at 7/8 years), School and learning (No. 1). Dublin: ESRI/TCD/DCYA. Growing Up in Ireland Study Team (2017). Key findings: Infant Cohort (at 7/8 years), Health and development (No. 2). Dublin: ESRI/TCD/DCYA. Growing Up in Ireland Study Team (2017). Key findings: Infant Cohort (at 7/8 years), Socio-emotional development, relationships and play (No. 3). Dublin: ESRI/TCD/DCYA. McNamara, E., Murray, A. & Williams, J. (2019). Growing Up in Ireland: Design, instrumentation and procedures (including summary literature review, pilot report and findings) for Cohort ‘08 at wave four (7/8 years). (Technical Series No. 2019-3). Dublin: ESRI/TCD/DCYA. https://issda.ucd.ie/oai doi:10.7929/ISSDA/1XDVUF 2025-06-26T02:00:00Z ddi:codebook:2_5