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Changes in the socio economic background of children
Stephen Bond and Sarah Williams, Office for National Statistics
[Project number 20106]
The data will be used to assess the extent to which children aged under 6 in the 1991 Census live with the same parents in the 2001 Census, and the extent to which adults (in 10 year age bands: 16 - 25, 26 - 35, and 36 - 45) have changed their socio-economic status in the same time period.
This information is needed to inform a decision to be made in a project
sponsored by RNOAD division of ONS which is looking into creating cross
cutting indicators for publication on the NeSS web site. The first indicator
we aim to create is proportion of 16 year olds attaining 5 or more GCSEs
grade A* to E by the child's parent's socio economic status (NSSEC). The
decision that we need to make is whether to match the DfES's National
Pupil Database which contains attainment with either the 2001 Census or
the LFS. If we use the latter, then this will track changes in parental
NSSEC over time (due to family breakdowns or parents changing occupation),
if we use the former, then the parental NSSEC will be as recorded on census
night. There are also technical matching difficulties associated with
each option.