1. Official Opening Monday 29 February 2016 Investigating educational and developmental outcomes using linked administrative data Dr Chris Playford

2. Official Opening Monday 29 February 2016 Research Topics 1.Educational attainment, socioeconomic position, child development and birth outcomes Prof Chris Dibben, Dr Lee Williamson & Dr Zengyi Huang Topic of this talk 2.Between the NEET and the Tidy – Exploring ‘Middle’ Outcomes in Scottish School Qualifications Prof Vernon Gayle, Dr Roxanne Connelly & Dr Susan Murray Not covered in this talk: latent class analysis of subject-specific outcomes

3. Official Opening Monday 29 February 2016 Themes Exploring the extent to which the relationship between family socioeconomic position and educational attainment is moderated by: Being born Small for Gestational Age (SGA) Child Development Exploring variation in child development by birthweight and family socioeconomic position

4. Official Opening Monday 29 February 2016 Rationale Attempting to better understand social patterning of educational and developmental outcomes. To what extent does socioeconomic variation in birthweight (and other birth outcomes) explain differences in these outcomes? Challenge of disentangling these life course processes Middle-range theories (Merton 1967) “Compared with children whose parents are degree-educated, those whose parents have no qualifications are more likely, amongst other things, to have younger mothers, live in lone parent families, experience lower levels of home learning activities and household rules, to have had a low birth weight, poorer general health, and a mother who smokes.” BradshawBradshaw (2011: 22)

5. Official Opening Monday 29 February 2016 Scottish Longitudinal Study Source: Boyle et al. (2009: 388) – Table 2

6. Official Opening Monday 29 February 2016 Linked Administrative Data Maternity Inpatient and Day Case (SMR02) Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) Examination Results in Scottish Schools Child Health Systems Programme Pre-School (CHSP Pre-School)

7. Official Opening Monday 29 February 2016 Outcome Measures Standard Grade Points Score 7 points = Grade 1 (Highest) 1 point = Grade 7 (Lowest) See Croxford et al. (2007)Croxford Child Development (CHSP-PS) Based on Woodside (see Eu 1986)Eu Indicators Gross Motor skills Fine motor or manipulative skills Hearing and communication Social skills and behaviour Classification Abnormal Doubtful / Uncertain Incomplete Normal

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11. Summary The relationship between educational attainment and family socioeconomic position is slightly attenuated by differential birth outcomes Only very slight attenuation when child development indicators are included This is because these are indicators of quite serious conditions which affect only a very small proportion of children Child development indicators are strongly associated with gestational age specific birthweight Fine motor, social and hearing abnormalities are more likely for children with parents in lower grade occupations or who are long-term unemployed. This is adjusting for other indicators of family socioeconomic position and birth outcomes

12. Official Opening Monday 29 February 2016 Next Steps Re-estimation of standard grade models with more contemporary occupational measure (i.e. NS-SEC) Attainment in Standard Grades is at age 15/16 What about disparities between younger children? Performance Indicators in Primary Schools (PIPS) project

13. Official Opening Monday 29 February 2016 Future work Educational Outcomes Looked After Children (LAC) Social Work WS Placement Stability Maternal Anxiety & Depression ADRC-S Work Package Linked Prescribing Information System (PIS) data Income Supplementation What Works Scotland Cash for Kids charity Cash for Kids

14. With thanks to chris.playford@ed.ac.uk The help provided by staff of the Longitudinal Studies Centre – Scotland (LSCS) is acknowledged. The LSCS is supported by the ESRC/JISC, the Scottish Funding Council, the Chief Scientist’s Office and the Scottish Government. The authors alone are responsible for the interpretation of the data. Census output is Crown copyright and is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen’s Printer for Scotland. Funder: Economic and Social Research Council Project: Administrative Data Research Centre - Scotland Grant number: ES/L007487/1