ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN'> <html><head><title>Title Page</title><meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=iso-8859-1'><style type='text/css'>h1 { margin:0px 0px 0px 0px; padding:0px; font-size:large; font-weight:900; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align:center; color:#000; }h2 { font-size:medium; font-weight:900; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:10px 0px -2px 0px; padding:0px; color:#000; }h2.myclass { font-size:medium; font-weight:900; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:10px 0px -2px 0px; padding:0px; color:#000; text-align:center;}h3 { font-size:13px; font-weight:700; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:0px 0px -1px 0px; padding:0px; color:#07a; }h3.myclass { font-size:13px; font-weight:700; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:0px 0px -1px 0px; padding:0px; color:#07a; text-align:center;}h4 { font-size:x-large; font-family:garamond, serif; color:#09f; text-align:center; margin:0px 0px 5px 0px; padding:0px;}h5 { font-size:13px; font-family:verdana, arial,sans-serif; font-weight:600; margin:0px 0px 5px 50px; padding:0px;}i.myclass{color:#07a;}</style></head><body> <H1> Small Fortunes : National Survey of the Lifestyles and Living Standards of Children, 1995 </H1> <H3 class='myclass'> UKDA study number:3962</h3> <H2 class='myclass'>Principal Investigators </H2> <H3 class='myclass'> Middleton, S.<br>Ashworth, K.<br>Loughborough University. Centre for Research in Social Policy<br> </H3> <H2 class='myclass'>Data Collector</H2> <H3 class='myclass'>Research Services Limited<br></H3> <H2 class='myclass'>Sponsor</H2> <H3 class='myclass'>Joseph Rowntree Foundation<br></H3> <H2 class='myclass'>Distributed by</H2> <H3 class='myclass'>UK Data Archive, University of Essex, Colchester.</H3> <H3 class='myclass'> March 1999 </H3> <div style='page-break-before:always'></div> <H1>&nbsp;</H1><H1>Bibliographic Citation</H1> <H5> All works which use or refer to these materials should acknowledge these sources by means of bibliographic citation. To ensure that such source attributions are captured for bibliographic indexes, citations must appear in footnotes or in the reference section of publications. The bibliographic citation for this data collection is: </h5> <H5> Middleton, S. and Ashworth, K., <i> Small Fortunes : National Survey of the Lifestyles and Living Standards of Children, 1995</i> [computer file]. Colchester, Essex: UK Data Archive [distributor], March 1999. SN: 3962, http://dx.doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-3962-1 </h5><H1>&nbsp;</H1> <H1 >Acknowledgement</h1> <h5> Any publication, whether printed, electronic or broadcast, based wholly or in part on these materials, should acknowledge the original data creators, depositors or copyright holders, the funders of the Data Collections (if different) and the UK Data Archive, and to acknowledge Crown Copyright where appropriate. <br> Any publication, whether printed, electronic or broadcast, based wholly or in part on these materials should carry a statement that the original data creators, depositors or copyright holders, the funders of the Data Collections (if different) and the UK Data Archive bear no responsibility for their further analysis or interpretation. </h5><H5>&nbsp;</H5> <H1>Disclaimer</H1> <h5> Although all efforts are made to ensure the quality of the materials, neither the original data creators, depositors or copyright holders, the funders of the Data Collections, nor the UK Data Archive bear any responsibility for the accuracy or comprehensiveness of these materials.<br> </h5><h5>&nbsp;</h5><h5>All rights reserved. No part of these materials may be reproduced, stored in, or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the UK Data Archive.<br><br>UK Data Archive<br> University of Essex<br> Wivenhoe Park<br> Colchester<br> Essex C04 3SQ<br> United Kingdom<br>www.data-archive.ac.uk <br><br> </h5> <h2 style='page-break-before:always'> 3962 . Small Fortunes : National Survey of the Lifestyles and Living Standards of Children, 1995<br> </h2><h3>&nbsp;</h3> <h3>Depositor:</h3> <h5>Middleton, S. , Loughborough University. Centre for Research in Social Policy</h5> <h3>Principal Investigators:</h3> <h5>Middleton, S. , Loughborough University. Centre for Research in Social Policy</h5> <h5>Ashworth, K. , Loughborough University. Centre for Research in Social Policy</h5> <H3>Data Collector:</H3> <H5>Research Services Limited<br></H5> <H3>Sponsor:</H3><H5> Joseph Rowntree Foundation<br> </H5> <h3> Other Acknowledgements: </h3> <h5>Alan Marsh of the Policy Studies Institute provided the sample for children in two-parent families.<br> The Department of Social Security provided the sample for children in one-parent families.<br> Peter Lynn, independent statistical consultant, assisted with the weighting strategy.<br></h5> <h3> Abstract: </h3> <h5>The Small Fortunes Survey is the first ever nationally representative survey of the lifestyles and living standards of British children. Taking the child as the unit of analysis, its main aims were :<br> to establish household expenditure on children and to investigate variation by income, age and gender of child and by family size and status;<br> to estimate certain of the indirect costs imposed by child rearing;<br> to determine the nature and extent of extra household support for children;<br> to specify and compare, the minimum direct costs of children according to budget standard, consensual, self-assessment and behavioural definitions;<br> to examine the nature and degree of poverty in childhood according to those definitions given above;<br> to investigate the 'economics of parenting': the extent to which children's aspirations are met at the expense of the living standards of parents; parent/child interactions on finance; parents' economic aspirations for their children;<br> to explore childhood living standards from children's own perspectives, investigating their experience of money and its management; knowledge and understanding of the family's financial circumstances in the context of the immediate neighbourhood and wider society.</h5><h3>Main Topics:</h3><h5> The dataset includes the following files :<br> 'adult1' : data from the first interview with the main carer of the child, covering household composition, occupation of adults in household, childcare for selected child, baby-sitting for selected child, housing tenure and size, attitudes to parenting, parental sacrifice, parental aspirations, index of childhood deprivation, access to facilities, parent-child interactions on finance and grouped household income.<br> 'adult2' : data from second interview with main carer of the child, including educational background of adults in family, household ownership of consumer durables, household income, opportunity costs for main carer associated with the selected child, index of adult deprivation, household savings, housing costs, insurance, other household bills, car ownership and cost, household debts, loans and credit, parent assessed cost of all children in household, parent-assessed measures of deprivation, family relationships and health.<br> 'babgear' : data from self-completion inventory of equipment, clothes and toys for selected child under two years old.<br> 'clthposs' : data from self-completion inventory of equipment, clothes and toys for selected child over two years old.<br> 'prescexp' : data from self-completion diary of expenditure on food, activities and other purchases for selected child not in full-time school.<br> 'schexp' : data from self-completion diary of expenditure on food, school activities, out-of-school activities, phone calls, other purchases and pocket money for selected child in full-time school.<br> 'selfcomp' : data from self-completion questionnaire on outings and holidays, birthdays, savings and earnings for selected child.<br> 'xmas' : data from self-completion questionnaire on Christmas expenditure for selected child.<br> 'child' : data from interview with selected child, covering pocket money, earnings from employment, items child aspires to own, attitudes to area, knowledge of family income and expenditure, child/parent interactions on finance, career aspirations.</h5> <h3>Coverage: </h3><h5> <br><i class='myclass'>Dates of Fieldwork: </i> February 1995 - June 1995 <br><i class='myclass'>Country: </i> Great Britain <br><i class='myclass'>Spatial Units: </i> No information recorded <br><i class='myclass'>Observation Units: </i> Families/households <br><i class='myclass'>Kind of Data: </i> Numeric data; Individual (micro) level </h5> <h3>Universe Sampled: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'>Location of Units of Observation:</i> National <br><i class='myclass'>Population:</i> Children aged between 0 and 17 years (one per household sampled) and their adult carers, living in households in 49 postcode districts in Great Britain during February to June 1995. </h5> <h3>Methodology: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'>Time Dimensions: </i> Cross-sectional (one-time) study <br><i class='myclass'>Sampling Procedures: </i> Multi-stage stratified random sample<br> full details of sampling procedure may be found in the codebook <br><i class='myclass'>Number of Units:</i> (A) 1906 (target) 1239 (obtained) Weighted sample size was 10487 <br><i class='myclass'>Method of Data Collection: </i> Face-to-face interview; Self-completion; Diaries; CAPI was used for the interviews </h5><h3>Language(s) of Written Materials: </h3> <h5>Study Description: English<br>Study Documentation: English<br></h5> <h3>Access: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'>Access Conditions: </i> The depositor has specified that registration is required and standard conditions of use apply. The depositor may be informed about usage. See <a href='/orderingdata/termsandConditions.asp'>terms and conditions</a> for further information. <br><i class='myclass'>Availability: </i> ESDS Access and Preservation, UK Data Archive <br><i class='myclass'>Contact: </i></b> Help desk: help@esds.ac.uk<br> </h5> <h3>Date of First Release:</h3><h5> 4 March 1999<br></h5> <br><br> <h3> File last updated: </h3> <h5>4 January 2012</h5> </body></html>