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ANNEX 2 ADDITIONAL ANALYSIS OF BACKGROUND INFORMATION
2 (i) Parent Age
Over half of responding parents were in the 30-40 age group (n=322) with the next largest group being in the 22-20 age range (n=173). Eighteen parents under the age of 21 responded, whilst there were 63 responding parents between the ages of 40-50 years.
| Frequency | Percent | Valid Percent | Cumulative Percent |
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Valid | Under 17 | 5 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.9 |
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17-21 | 13 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 3.1 |
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22-30 | 173 | 28.7 | 30.0 | 33.1 |
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30-40 | 322 | 53.4 | 55.8 | 88.9 |
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40-50 | 63 | 10.4 | 10.9 | 99.8 |
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50+ | 1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 100.0 |
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Total | 577 | 95.7 | 100.0 | |
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Missing | 0 | 7 | 1.2 | | |
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System | 19 | 3.2 | | |
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Total | 26 | 4.3 | | |
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Total | 603 | 100.0 | | |
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2 (ii) Are you living with a partner?
77% of families in the sample were living as a two-parent family; 26% of these were living in reconstituted families.
2 (iii) Are you working?
117 parents were working full-time, 209 were working part-time and 243 were not in employment outside the home.
| Frequency | Percent | Valid Percent | Cumulative Percent |
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Valid | yes, full-time | 117 | 19.4 | 20.6 | 20.6 |
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yes, part-time | 209 | 34.7 | 36.7 | 57.3 |
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No | 243 | 40.3 | 42.7 | 100.0 |
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Total | 569 | 94.4 | 100.0 | |
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Missing | 0 | 15 | 2.5 | | |
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System | 19 | 3.2 | | |
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Total | 34 | 5.6 | | |
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Total | 603 | 100.0 | | |
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n=77 for public sector (13%)
n=66 for professional (11%)
n= 38 for office staff (6%)
n=38 for customer service/sales (6%)
2 (iv) Is your partner working?
In 369 cases partners of respondents were in paid full-time work and 30 were in part-time work. 65 were not currently working.
| Frequency | Percent | Valid Percent | Cumulative Percent |
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Valid | yes, full-time | 369 | 61.2 | 79.5 | 79.5 |
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yes, part-time | 30 | 5.0 | 6.5 | 86.0 |
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No | 65 | 10.8 | 14.0 | 100.0 |
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Total | 464 | 76.9 | 100.0 | |
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Missing | 0 | 120 | 19.9 | | |
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System | 19 | 3.2 | | |
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Total | 139 | 23.1 | | |
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Total | 603 | 100.0 | | |
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n=121 for manual (20%)
n=80 for professional (13%)
n=62 for managerial (10%)
2 (v) Highest or most recent educational attainment
More respondents were qualified to standard grade than to any other level of educational qualification (n=88=15%). The next largest group (n=81=13%) were qualified to degree level.
n=88 for standard grade (15%)
n=81 for BA/ BSc (13%)
n=59 for higher grade
n=53 for o-level
n=48 for n/a
n=47 for SVQ
2 (vi) Own/Rent Home
Over half the responding families were home owners
61% owns home
37% rents home
2% other
2 (vii) Support
Families reported support is available to them from several different sources - more reported support from other family members than from outside the family.
n=138 for family (23%)
n=60 for after-school/childminder (10%)
social worker (3%)
health visitor (1%)
2 (viii) Ethnic Origin
Respondents were asked to indicate their ethnic background. The majority of respondents were white British in origin.
| Frequency | Percent | Valid Percent | Cumulative Percent |
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Valid | 1 | 474 | 78.6 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
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Missing | 0 | 110 | 18.2 | | |
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System | 19 | 3.2 | | |
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Total | 129 | 21.4 | | |
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Total | 603 | 100.0 | | |
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7.5% other British
2.7% other white
1% Pakistani
0.5% Asian
0.3% Indian
0.2% Chinese
2 (ix) Disabled
2% consider themselves to be disabled
2 (x) Religion
33% no indication + 15% indicated to have none
23% Catholic
15% Protestant
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