The childrens environment survey 2011
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.
Subject area
HEALTH
(CESSDA Topic Classification)
Medical and Health Sciences, Health Sciences, Occupational Health and Environmental Health
(The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
Keywords
housing, family environment, smoking, physical activities, television viewing, obesity, public health, mental health, natural environment, demography, passive smoking, Epidemiologic Studies, Respiratory Tract Diseases, Exercise, Population Surveillance, Hearing Loss, Socioeconomic Factors, Risk Factors, Overweight, Diet, Asthma, Noise, Questionnaires, Air Pollution, Tobacco, Hypersensitivity, parks, schools, housing conditions, sun protection, socio-economic status, green belt areas, cross-sectional study, EpiHealth, EpiHealth_Skåne, Scania
Principal organisation
Accessibility status
Responsible department/unit
Public Health Agency of Sweden, Institute of Environmental Medicine
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Antonios Georgelis - Stockholms läns landsting, Centrum för Arbets- och miljömedicin
Identifiers
SND-ID: EXT 0272
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.
Geographic spread
Geographic location: Sweden
Lowest geographic unit
County (NUTS3)
Highest geographic unit
Country
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..
Time Method
Sampling procedure
Subject area
HEALTH
(CESSDA Topic Classification)
Medical and Health Sciences, Health Sciences, Occupational Health and Environmental Health
(The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
Keywords
housing, family environment, smoking, physical activities, television viewing, obesity, public health, mental health, natural environment, demography, passive smoking, Epidemiologic Studies, Respiratory Tract Diseases, Exercise, Population Surveillance, Hearing Loss, Socioeconomic Factors, Risk Factors, Overweight, Diet, Asthma, Noise, Questionnaires, Air Pollution, Tobacco, Hypersensitivity, parks, schools, housing conditions, sun protection, socio-economic status, green belt areas, cross-sectional study, EpiHealth, EpiHealth_Skåne, Scania
Contact for questions about the data
Is part of collection at SND
Associated documentation
Dataset 1
The childrens environment survey 2011: 8 months
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Antonios Georgelis - Stockholms läns landsting, Centrum för Arbets- och miljömedicin
Data format / data structure
Numeric
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
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Antonios Georgelis - Stockholms läns landsting, Centrum för Arbets- och miljömedicin
Data format / data structure
Numeric
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
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Antonios Georgelis - Stockholms läns landsting, Centrum för Arbets- och miljömedicin
Data format / data structure
Numeric
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