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.
Research principal
Responsible department/unit
Institute of Environmental Medicine
Data contains personal data
No
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
Geographic spread
Geographic location: Sweden
Lowest geographic unit
County (NUTS3)
Highest geographic unit
Country
Research 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, surveys and questionnaires, air pollution, tobacco, hypersensitivity, parks, schools, housing conditions, sun protection, socio-economic status, green belt areas, epihealth, epihealth_skåne, scania
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Associated documentation
Data format / data structure
Numeric
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Antonios Georgelis - Stockholms läns landsting, Centrum för Arbets- och miljömedicin
Number of individuals/objects
8690
Response rate/participation rate
55%
Associated documentation
Data format / data structure
Numeric
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Antonios Georgelis - Stockholms läns landsting, Centrum för Arbets- och miljömedicin
Number of individuals/objects
12900
Response rate/participation rate
53%
Associated documentation
Data format / data structure
Numeric
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Antonios Georgelis - Stockholms läns landsting, Centrum för Arbets- och miljömedicin
Number of individuals/objects
14531
Response rate/participation rate
46%