The childrens environment survey 2011

SND-ID: EXT 0272

This study is part of the collection Scania Metadatabase for Epidemiology (SME)

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Antonios Georgelis - Stockholms läns landsting, Centrum för Arbets- och miljömedicin

Description

The Children's Environmental Health Survey is carried out in collaboration between the Institute of Environmental Medicine at Karolinska Institutet and the Statistics Sweden, on behalf of the Public Health Agency of Sweden.

The questionnaire concerned the health and environments of children in three age groups: 8 months, 4 years, and the 12 years. The questions were in most cases answered by the children’s parents, but some of the questions were directly asked of children in 12-year-old group.

The questions focused on the children’s exposure to environmental factors and on their self-rated symptoms, health, and levels of disturbance by various environmental factors. Statistics Sweden supplemented the data from the survey with demographic data from various central registers including gender, age, place of residence, country 24 of birth, and parents’ educational level etc. Nearly 71 400 children were randomly selected within each county. Approximately 36 000 people responded to the survey, representing a response rate of over 50 percent.

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Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

Public Health Agency of Sweden

Responsible department/unit

Institute of Environmental Medicine

Protection and ethical review

Data contains personal data

No

Method and time period

Unit of analysis

Population

Children aged 8 months, 4 years and 12 years, registered in Sweden and having at least one guardians that has been publicly registered in Sweden for at least 5 years..

Sampling procedure

Probability
Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden

Lowest geographic unit

County (NUTS3)

Highest geographic unit

Country

Publications

Access to data via

Contact

Antonios Georgelis

antonios.georgelis@sll.se

Dataset 1
The childrens environment survey 2011: 8 months

Associated documentation

Data format / data structure

Numeric

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Antonios Georgelis - Stockholms läns landsting, Centrum för Arbets- och miljömedicin

Data collection

  • Mode of collection: Self-administered questionnaire
  • Time period(s) for data collection: 2011-03–2011-06
  • Data collector: Statistics Sweden
  • Source of the data: Registers/Records/Accounts: Administrative, Population group

Number of individuals/objects

8690

Response rate/participation rate

55%

Dataset 2
The childrens environment survey 2011: 4 years

Associated documentation

Data format / data structure

Numeric

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Antonios Georgelis - Stockholms läns landsting, Centrum för Arbets- och miljömedicin

Data collection

  • Mode of collection: Self-administered questionnaire
  • Time period(s) for data collection: 2011-03–2011-06
  • Data collector: Statistics Sweden
  • Source of the data: Registers/Records/Accounts: Administrative, Population group

Number of individuals/objects

12900

Response rate/participation rate

53%

Dataset 3
The childrens environment survey 2011: 12 years

Associated documentation

Data format / data structure

Numeric

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Antonios Georgelis - Stockholms läns landsting, Centrum för Arbets- och miljömedicin

Data collection

  • Mode of collection: Self-administered questionnaire
  • Time period(s) for data collection: 2011-03–2011-06
  • Data collector: Statistics Sweden
  • Source of the data: Registers/Records/Accounts: Administrative, Population group

Number of individuals/objects

14531

Response rate/participation rate

46%

Contact for questions about the data

Antonios Georgelis

antonios.georgelis@sll.se

Is part of collection at SND

Scania Metadatabase for Epidemiology (SME)

Published: 2017-06-14
Last updated: 2017-06-16