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Young girl standing in front of a bike in Vietnam

Young girl standing in front of a bike in Vietnam. Photographer Nguyen Van Thanh

Quantitative Round 1 - 2002

Young Lives developed four questionnaires that were used in all countries in the first round of data collection:

  • Household questionnaire for caregivers of 1 year-old 'index' children (index children)
  • Household questionnaire for caregivers of 8 year-old children (1994 cohort)
  • Child questionnaire for interviewing the 8 year-old child directly (1994 cohort)
  • Community questionnaires


Quantitative Round 2 - 2006/2007

Young Lives developed four questionnaires, revised version of the first round questionnaires that were used in all countries for the second round of data collection.

  • Household questionnaire for caregivers of 5-6 year-old 'index' children
  • Household questionnaire for caregivers of 11-12 year-old children (1994 cohort)
  • Child questionnaire for interviewing the 11-12 year-old child directly (1994 cohort)
  • Community questionnaires

Certain answers where left blank to allow national teams to develop a series of answers that were most appropriate to the country context. These appear as 'XXXX' in the questionnaires. The national teams also chose to develop country-specific modules - additional to the core questions shown in the instruments provided here. These will be available on the site at a later stage. Full country versions of each Round 1 instrument are included in the support documentation for the publicly archived data - see the Young Lives data page for more information.

The project opted to also collect data during each round of the study from children born in 1994 and their respective households in order to provide comparative data (and also initially to allow fieldworkers to pilot data collection) for the index children, those born in 2000/2001.

Justification documents explain why each topic is included, the rationale for information to be collected about each topic, and how this information will be used.

The fieldwork manual explains how to conduct the questionnaire and includes ethical guidelines.

This chart gives a summary of the issues covered by the household and child questionnaires during round one.

'Index' children - born 2000/2001

The study follows a group of approximately 2000 children per country born in the year 2000/1. They were thus an average of 1 year old during round one of the study. The children (by then aged 5-6 years old) and their households were surveyed again during round two of the study. It is intended that the children and their households will be surveyed again when the children are aged 8, 11 and 14.

2002: Round 1 (when children aged 6-17.9 months)

  • 6-17.9 month-old household questionnaire [* FULL VERSION NOW PROVIDED HERE *]
    [PDF file 751 KB]
  • Fieldworker manual for household questionnaires, which includes instructions for index and 8 year-old household questionnaires
    [PDF file 1009 KB]
  • Justification document for the household questionnaires for both index and 8 year-old children
    [PDF file 863 KB]

2006/2007: Round 2 (when children aged 5 - 6 years)

'Older Cohort' Children - born 1994

In 2002, information was collected from approximately 1000 children per country born in the year 1994. These children and their households were surveyed again in each country during the second round of the study. This information can be compared with the index children, when they reach 8 and 12 years-old themselves.

2002: Round one (when children aged 7.5-8.5 years)

  • 7.5-8.5 year-old household questionnaire  [* FULL VERSION NOW PROVIDED HERE *]
    [PDF file 153 KB] See above for fieldworker manual and justification document.
  • 7.5-8.5 year-old child questionnaire
    [PDF file 560 KB]
  • Fieldworker manual for 7.5-8.5 year-old child questionnaire
    [PDF file 188 KB]
  • Justification document for 7.5-8.5 year-old child questionnaire
    [PDF file 612 KB]
  • 7.5-8.5 year old child questionnaire including open ended questions, administered to sub-sample of children in each country
    [PDF file 188 KB]

2006/2007: Round two (when children aged 11.5-12.5 years)

  • 11.5-12.5 year-old household questionnaire
    [PDF file 1.6 MB]
  • 11.5-12.5 year-old child questionnaire
    [PDF file 3 KB]
  • Fieldworker manual for Round 2 household and child questionnaires
    [PDF file 909 KB]



    • Community / Context Instrument

    Information about the social, economic and environmental context of each community is being collected at the same time as the surveys.

    2002: Round one

    2006/2007: Round two




    Copyright

    Young Lives incorporated some existing research tools in sections of the household and child questionnaires. Some of these tools are copyrighted and you will need to obtain permission to use them. The following summarises the copyright situation for these research tools used by Young Lives.

    1-year old questionnaire (Round 1)

    • Self Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ-20)
      Non-copyright tool developed by WHO to screen for psychiatric disturbance, especially in developing countries.

    8-year-old questionnaire (Round 1)

    • Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)
      This is a strictly copyrighted instrument and if countries need to translate the measure into their own language they must do this with the full co-operation of Dr Robert Goodman at the Institute of Psychiatry, London. Copyright notice: The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaires, whether in English or in translation, are copyrighted documents that may not be modified in any way. Paper versions may be downloaded and subsequently photocopied without charge for non-commercial purposes.
    • Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices (CPM)
      Copyright - JC Raven Ltd/Harcourt Assessment
      Young Lives bought manuals from Oxford Psychologists Press but countries may be able to source from organisations in country.
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