1. Neighbourhood & Citizenship The clustered nature of the MCS sample makes it possible to separate individual /family effects on, for example, child development, from the contextual effects of neighbourhood. NEIGHBOURHOOD & CITIZENSHIP – IAN PLEWIS (Ioe)

2. Current position AData from interview:  Views about area (general question & 8.Items)  Single question about neighbours  A few questions about voting & interest.in politics These data can be aggregated to get an estimate of the ward view/involvement

3. Current position cont. BHealth Visitor survey – focus on services for young children CAdministrative statistics from ONS Neighbourhood Statistics Unit

4. Addition of Ecological data to the Millennium Cohort Study Neighbourhood Statistics Crime Economic Deprivation Notifiable offences recorded by the police England/WalesLocal Authority University admissions by place of residence, 1997 and 1998 EnglandLocal authority wards Primary school pupils at Key Stage 2, Summer 1998 EnglandWard

5. Education, skills and training University admissions by place of residence, 1997 and 1998 EnglandLocal Authority Ward Primary school pupils at Key Stage 2, Summer 1998 EnglandWard Health Attendance Allowance claimantsEngland, Wales, Scotland Local Authority Ward Disability Living AllowanceEngland, Wales, Scotland Local Authority Ward Drug mis-users presenting for treatment, 1 October 1999 - 31 March 2000 EnglandHealth Hospital Episode Statistics, 1999/00 EnglandLocal Authority Ward

6. Work Jobseeker's Allowance claimantsEngland, Wales, Scotland Local Authority Ward Incapacity Benefit claimantsEngland, Wales, Scotland Local Authority Ward Severe Disablement Allowance claimants England, Wales, Scotland Local Authority Ward VAT registered enterprises by industry group, March 2000 England, Wales, Scotland, NI Ward VAT registered enterprises by employment sizeband, March 2000 England, Wales, Scotland, NI Ward Employee jobs, September 1998England, Wales, Scotland Local Authority Ward Claimant count - Oxford University ward level estimates EnglandWard Claimant count and claimant count rate (revised 29/09/01) England, Wales, Scotland, NI Local Authority

7. Indices of Deprivation Indices of Deprivation for wards in England, 2000 EnglandWard Indices of Deprivation for districts in England, 2000 EnglandLocal Authority Indices of Deprivation for electoral divisions in Wales, 2000 WalesWard Population and Vital Statistics Oxford University population estimates for wards in England, mid 1998 EnglandWard Vital statistics, 1998 England, Wales Local Authority Ward Resident population estimates for local authorities in England, mid 1998 EnglandLocal Authority Resident population estimates for local authorities in England, mid 1998 EnglandLocal Authority Others

8. Topics that might be considered for Sweep 2: 1)Interview data about:  Involvement in organised activities  Local friends  Views about area for bringing up children 2)Updating administrative data 3)Using interviewers to collect data about wards (physical characteristics, facilities etc.) for example drawing on Jacqueline Barnes’ work, currently used in Sure Start Evaluation 4)Sampling issues

10. The MCS population is a population of children defined as: all children born between 1 September 2000 and 31 August 2001 (for England and Wales), and between 1 December 2000 and 30 November 2001 (for Scotland and Northern Ireland), alive and living in the UK at age nine months; and, after nine months: for as long as they remain living in the UK. SAMPLING ISSUES – IAN PLEWIS (IoE)

11. It follows from the way the MCS population is defined that the sample at Sweep 2 should include: 1) All children born between the designated dates still resident at the address in the sampled wards they had at age nine months; 2) All children born between the designated dates still resident somewhere in the UK but no longer at their nine-month address - we estimate that perhaps 20% of the sample will fall into this category.

12. We know that there was more undetected (by DWP) movement out of the sample wards between birth and age nine months than we had expected and hence an unknown amount of migration into the sample wards. The Health Visitors working in the sampled wards will have detected some of this in-migration but not all of it. Therefore, consideration should be given to obtaining, from DWP, lists of notified in-migrants to the sampled wards between the ages of nine and, say, 15 months.

13. These will include children who should have been in the sample at Sweep one, but whose families did not notify the Child Benefit Centre of their change of address in time to be included in the DWP file, and who were not picked up by the Health Visitors. They should be included in Sweep two (and all subsequent Sweeps), and treated as non- respondents at Sweep one.

14. ENGLAND: Advantaged ENGLAND: Disadvantaged ENGLAND: Ethnic WALES: Advantaged WALES: Disadvantaged SCOTLAND: Advantaged SCOTLAND: Disadvantaged N.IRELAND: Advantaged N.IRELAND: Disadvantaged TOTAL WARDS 110 71 19 23 50 32 30 23 40398

15. Sample Dispersal The dispersal of the sample is likely to have implications for fieldwork costs in that interviewers will be needed for those who have moved, in principle anywhere in the UK. It is possible that these fieldwork costs could be reduced if the fieldwork period used for Sweep 2 were compressed into a shorter period. This would mean that children would be seen at different ages around 36 months - itself a possible scientific advantage - and that the number of visits interviewers had to make to each sampled ward could be reduced.

16. For example, fieldwork for Sweep 2 could start 30 months after the start of fieldwork for Sweep 1 and waves 1 and 7, 2 and 8 etc. could be combined to give a fieldwork period of 6 months, and a range of ages from 33 to 39 months. This issue needs to be scrutinised both in terms of its scientific advantages and disadvantages as well as for its cost implications.