Key Summary Report from Wave 1    

References  

Endnotes 

  1. See Future directions and acceess to data for more information about Wave 2 and 3.2
  2. The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) is the first longitudinal study of Australian children as they grow up. Data are being collected from two cohorts every two years. The first cohort of 5,000 children was aged 0–1 years in 2003–4 and the second cohort comprising 5,000 children was aged 4–5 years in 2003–4. Study informants include the child (when of an appropriate age) and their parents, carers and teachers.
  3. Some interviews were mistakenly completed in the wrong cohort. Parents of these children will be interviewed with the correct cohort interview in subsequent waves.
  4. Medicare and Centrelink information was provided to FaHCSIA under strict guidelines concerning the use, privacy and security of the information.
  5. The use of these records was restricted to those families who identified their children as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander on their Medicare and Centrelink registration. Such self-identification is voluntary and some families choose not to identify their children in this way.
  6. A report summarising those consultations, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander views on research in their communities, (Professor Robyn Penman, FaHCSIA Occasional Paper No. 16) was published in 2006.
  7. FaHCSIA Occasional Paper No. 17 (2006) Growing up in the Torres Strait region: A report from the Footprints in Time trials, Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health (CRCAH) in collaboration with the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research (TICHR) and FaCSIA.
  8. The MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory.
  9. Includes step-parents and foster or adoptive parents.
  10. Parental language ability is self assessed, in contrast to the assessment of the Study child’s literacy development.
  11. This was self assessed and, as such, must be interpreted with caution.
  12. Babies with birth weights over 5,000 grams (n=26) were removed from the analysis.
  13. Parents were not asked how much or how many times the food was eaten during each time period
  14. Parent’s Evaluation of Developmental Status (PEDS), the Australian Version. Centre for Community Child Health, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne 2005. Adapted with permission from Frances Page Glascoe, Ellsworth and Vandermeer Press Ltd.
  15. Based on the percentage of parents who reported the items ‘always’ or ‘often’.
  16. These questions came from the Strong Souls questionnaire developed to assess the emotional well-being of participants of the Aboriginal Birth Cohort study during the Wave 3 follow-up. Thomas A, Cairney, S, Gunthorpe, W, Paradies, Y, Sayers, S Strong Souls: the development and validation of a culturally appropriate tool for assessment of social and emotional wellbeing in Indigenous youth, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, in Press.
  17. Ibid.
  18. Humbugging refers to the practice of harassing family and friends for money.
  19. These may also be indirectly experienced by the parent through their relationship with close family or friends who directly experienced the event.

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