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1 On 3 September 2007 the Scottish Executive changed its name to the Scottish Government. Hence all references throughout this report are to 'the Scottish Government'.
2 Where such comparisons are made, the sample is based only on those households where a full partner interview took place - lone parents and main carers in households without a partner interview are not included in these tables.
3 If a very accurate estimate of the margin of error is required for a particular purpose, then expert help should be sought. The approximate formula shown above may need to be amended to allow for the sampling fraction and the effect of the weighting.
4 Note that whilst there is obviously some overlap between children in lone parent families and those who have a non-resident parent, some children who had a non-resident natural parent lived in couple families with a natural parent and their partner.
5 'Living elsewhere' did not include overnight or weekend stays, with grandparents or a non-resident parent for example.
6 Due to the very small number of natural mothers living outside the household, and the differences that are often seen between non-resident mothers and fathers, non-resident mothers have been excluded from this analysis.
7 The most commonly used classification of socio-economic status used on Government surveys is the National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification ( NS-SEC). For more details see the technical notes in appendix A.
8 'Household income' is a measure of income from all sources before tax including, for example, benefits, wages, and interest from savings.
9 Pescetarian is used to describe those who abstain from eating all meat and animal flesh with the exception of fish.
10 Respondents were able to select more than one person that the child usually ate with and therefore percentages do not add up to 100%.
11 More than one option could be selected here.
12 Symbolic functioning is the extent to which a child understands instructions, and interaction with and appropriate use of objects and toys.
13 Where such comparisons are made, the sample is based only on those households with a resident partner - lone parent households are not included in these tables. Partner interviews were achieved in 79% of participating baby cohort households and 77% of toddler cohort households. The partner data are weighted to take account of differences between households where the partner did and did not respond. The aim of these weights is thus to make the partner data as representative as possible of all partners in households who participated in GUS.
14 Partner figures are based only on those households where a partner interview was achieved (79% of the baby cohort and 77% of the toddler cohort). However, as described in the footnote above, the partner data is weighted to with the aim of making the partner data as representative as possible of all partners in participating households.
15 NB the small proportions of respondents who gave 'don't know' or 'it depends' answers are not shown in this table. Hence in some cases the totals may sum to slightly under 100%.
16 It is worth noting that findings about bathing will reflect frequency of bathing as well as who is involved in doing this. However, this will not affect the comparison between the frequency with which respondents and partners bath their child - if this task were shared completely equally, we would expect exactly the same pattern of responses for respondents and their partners, regardless of how often the child actually has a bath.
17 A slightly different banding was used for analysis by age of partner, due to the very low numbers of partners aged 20 or under.
18 Given that in almost all cases the main respondent is the mother, the terms 'main respondent' and 'mother' are used interchangably in this section.
19 This question was only asked of the birth cohort at Sweep 2.
20 'Some other change' includes changes either from someone else being mostly responsible for this task to the respondent or partner being (jointly or singly) responsible, or from the repsondent or partner being responsible to someone else being responsible, or from the partner doing most to the respondent doing most.
21 This question was only asked of the birth cohort at sweep 2.
22 This question was only asked of the birth cohort at Sweep 2
23 'Some other difference' include cases where the respondent or partner says someone else (other than the couple) is mainly responsible for a partiuclar task and cases where the respondent says the partner does most but the partner says they share this task equally with the respondent.
24 This question was only asked of the birth cohort at sweep 2.
25 More detail on accessing health-related services is provided in section 6.5
26 This form of childcare, and the specific issues associated with the child's transition to pre-school are considered in more detail in section 10.
27 Note that the small base sizes for 'small, remote towns' mean that this finding should be treated with caution.
28 The scale ranged from 0 to 20. A low score indicated a perceived positive impact of employment on family life, a high score a perceived negative impact.
29 The scale ranged from 0 to 8. A low score indicated a perceived low impact of family life on employment, a high score a perceived high impact.
30 This initiative was introduced under a previous Scottish Executive administration.
31 Where such comparisons are made, the sample is based only on those households with a resident partner - lone parents households are not included in these tables. Partner interviews were achieved in 79% of participating baby cohort households and 77% of toddler cohort households. The partner data is weighted to take account of differences between households where the partner did and did not respond. The aim of these weights is thus to make the partner data as representative as possible of all partners in households who participated in GUS.
32 As measured by the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation, in this case dividing areas across Scotland into 5 groups (quintiles) from least to most deprived.
33 Children whose 3rd birthday falls between 1st March and 31st August are eligible for a free place from the Autumn school term following their birthday (usually beginning in August). Those whose birthday falls between 1st September and 31st December are eligible from the spring term following their birthday (usually beginning in January). Those whose birthday falls between 1st January and the last day of February are eligible from the summer school term following their birthday (usually beginning in April).
34 'Formal sources' include pre-school staff, other childcarers ( e.g. childminders), Local Authority Education Department staff, social workers or community workers and other professionals ( e.g.GPs, health visitors, etc.).
35 61% of sweep 2 respondents with no qualifications, compared with 86% of those with degrees were using childcare at sweep 1.
36 Local Authority has been used as a stratification variable during sampling, this means the distribution of the GUS sample by Local Authority will be representative of the distribution of Local Authorities in Scotland. However, the sample sizes are such that we would not recommend analysis by Local Authority. The small sample sizes would give misleading results.
37 There were 45 individuals with ineligible outcome codes; these individuals were dropped from the analysis. Ineligible outcome codes include vacant, demolished/derelict and non-residential addresses.
38 If a very accurate estimate of the margin of error is required for a particular purpose, then expert help should be sought. The approximate formula shown above may need to be amended to allow for the sampling fraction and the effect of the weighting.
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