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The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study
and The In-Home Longitudinal Study of Pre-School Aged Children
Data Alerts
May 15, 2008 Baseline, One-Year, Three-Year Core and Three-Year In-Home files
have been re-released and are availble for download from the OPR
data archive. These files now contain the final versions of the
weights. Please visit the Fragaile Families
web site for updated
documentation.
The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study
The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study follows a cohort
of nearly 5,000 children born in the U.S. between 1998 and 2000.
The study over samples births to unmarried couples; and, when
weighted, the data are representative of births in large U.S.
cities at the turn of the century.
The Study was designed to address four questions of great interest
to researchers and policy makers: (1) What are the conditions and
capabilities of unmarried parents, especially fathers?;
(2) What is the nature of the relationships between unmarried
parents?; (3) How do children born into these families fare?;
and (4) How do policies and environmental conditions affect families
and children?
The Study consists of interviews with both mothers and fathers
at birth and again when children are ages one, three and five.
The parent interviews collect information on attitudes, relationships,
parenting behavior, demographic characteristics, health (mental
and physical), economic and employment status, neighborhood
characteristics, and program participation.
Baseline, one-year follow-up, and three-year follow up data
from the Core Study are available to the public. Upon
registration,
users can download data files from the first three waves of the
core study. Mother and father data are provided in separate data files.
Each file contains records for all 4,898 births regardless of whether
the respondent was interviewed in a given wave. Sample flags on each
file indicate which cases were interviewed at each wave. Documentation
is available on the Fragile Families web site located at
www.fragilefamilies.princeton.edu/documentation.asp.
The In-Home Longitudinal Study of Pre-School Aged Children
The In-Home Longitudinal Study of Pre-School Aged Children collects
data from a subset of the Fragile Families Core respondents at the
three- and five-year follow-ups to ask how parental resources in
the form of parental presence or absence, time, and money influence
children under the age of five.
The In-Home Study collects information on a variety of domains of
the child’s environment, including: the physical environment (quality
of housing, nutrition and food security, health care, adequacy of
clothing and supervision) and parenting (parental discipline, parental
attachment, and cognitive stimulation). In addition, the Study also
collects information on several important child outcomes, including
anthropometrics, child behaviors, and cognitive ability. This
information has been collected through: interviews with the child’s
primary caregiver, and direct observation of the child’s home environment
and the child’s interactions with his or her caregiver.
For more on the In-Home study, see the “Economic Status, Public
Policy, and Neglect” grant on the research page of Center for Health
and Wellbeing (CHW) website.
Data from the Three-Year In-Home Longitudinal Study of Pre-School
Aged Children are also available for download as a standalone file.
Please register for the Fragile Families
data to get access. Documentation is available on the
documentation page.
Documentation
Please visit the Fragile Families website to download the documentation and find out more about
study and data files including:
- Guide to the public use data
- Questionnaires for all waves
- Sample design paper and weighting documentation
- Timeline for data availability, data alerts, and frequently asked questions (FAQ)
- Review publications and working papers using the Fragile Families data
- Latest Fragile Families News(data workshops, recent publications, press)
Contact Us
If you have any questions about the Fragile Families Study
or problems obtaining or using the data, please email us at
ffdatahelp@opr.princeton.edu.
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