DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5760-11
title: Growing Up in Scotland: Cohort 1, Sweeps 1-9, 2005-2018: Special Licence Access
title: Growing Up in Scotland, 2005-: Special Licence Access
title: GUS

description: &lt;p&gt;The &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Growing Up in Scotland&lt;/span&gt; (GUS) study is a large-scale longitudinal social survey which follows the lives of several groups of Scottish children from infancy through childhood and adolescence, and aims to provide important new information on young children and their families in Scotland. The study forms a central part of the Scottish Government's strategy for the long-term monitoring and evaluation of its policies for children, with a specific focus on the early years. Unlike other similar cohort studies, this survey has a specifically Scottish focus. A key objective of GUS is to address a significant gap in the evidence base for early years policy monitoring and evaluation. The study seeks both to describe the characteristics, circumstances and experiences of children in their early years (and their parents) in Scotland and, through its longitudinal design, to generate a better understanding of how children's start in life can shape their longer term prospects and development.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Since 2005 fieldwork and analysis have been undertaken by ScotCen Social Research in collaboration with the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, based at the University of Edinburgh and the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unity. The survey design consisted of recruiting an initial total of 8,000 parents in 2005, comprising two cohorts of children (5,000 from birth, 3,000 from age two years and ten months), and then interviewing parents annually until their child reached age five years ten months. Further fieldwork was undertaken with the birth cohort when the children were just under eight years old. A new birth cohort comprising a little over 6000 children was recruited in 2011. This dataset contains information collected from the second birth cohort.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Further information about the survey may be found on the &lt;a href="https://growingupinscotland.org.uk/" target="_blank"&gt;Growing Up in Scotland web site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Special Licence Data&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;Following a statistical disclosure review of these data by the depositor they have been re-classified from End User Licence (EUL) to Special Licence (SL).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Removal of Geographical Variables and Spatial Unit Variable&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt; As of February 2018, at the data owner's request, the variables recording the 15% most deprived data zones, the 8 fold urban-rural classification and the Health Boards have been removed from all sweeps (where included). The list below contains the names of the variables that have been removed from each sweep.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sweep 1: ALaLow15, ALaHBdBc;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sweep 2: ALbLow15, ALbHBdBc;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sweep 3: DcURind1, DcADsco3, ALcHBdBc;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sweep 4: ALdURin1, ALdLow15, ALdHBdBc;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sweep 5: ALeURin1, ALeLow15, ALeHBdBc;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sweep 6: ALfURin1, ALfLow15, ALfHBdBc;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sweep 7: ALgURin1, ALgLow15, ALgHBdBc;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sweep 8: ALhURin1, ALhLow15, ALhHBdBc.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;Edition History:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;The first edition of the study (December 2007) contained data and documentation for Sweep 1, 2005.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The second edition (January 2008) contained revised data for Sweep 1 with some syntax corrections and amended documentation.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The third edition (April 2008) contained new versions of the data files with two additional variables (DaPSU, DaStrat) which can be used for taking account of design effects when producing standard errors.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;For the fourth edition (October 2008) data and documentation for Sweep 2, 2006-2007 were added to the study. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;For the fifth edition (December 2008), data from Sweep 1 data were revised. Variable DaHGnp01 in the child cohort data was updated, and some new derived variables (highest qualification for respondent and partner) were added to both Sweep 1 files. The documentation remained unchanged.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;For the sixth edition (August 2009) data and documentation for Sweep 3, 2007-2008 were added to the study.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;For the seventh edition (January 2010), Body Mass Index (BMI) variables were added to both the birth and cohort Sweep 2 datasets.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;For the eighth edition (July 2010), data and documentation for Sweep 4, conducted in 2008-2009, have been added to the study.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;For the ninth edition (November 2011), data and documentation from Sweep 5, conducted in 2009-2010, were added to the study.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;For the 10th edition (January 2012), updated data and documentation for Sweeps 1-4 were added to the study; the various updates and amendments made are described in the documentation.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;For the 11th edition (June 2013), data and documentation for Sweep 6 were added to the study.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;For the 12th edition (November 2016), data and documentation from Sweep 7 were added to the study.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;For the 13th edition (September 2017), the Sweep 2 Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS) variables have been revised, and new variables have been added to Sweeps 3 and 5 data to allow comparisons with Cohort 2 data; the documentation for Sweeps 3 and 5 has been updated accordingly.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;For the 14th edition (January 2018), data and documentation from Sweep 8 were added to the study.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;For the 15th edition (December 2019), data and documentation from Sweep 9 were added to the study.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;For the 16th edition (March 2020), new data files for Sweep 7.5 and Sweep 8.5 have added, along with accompanying User Notes and Questionnaires. Also variable DgCCtot has been removed from the Sweep 7 data file and 13 new derived childcare variables have been added. The Sweep Data Documentation file has also been updated to reflect these changes. In addition, variables DiMfai02 and DiYfai02 were updated on the Sweep 9 data file and variable DiCfai02 added.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;For the 17th edition (July 2020), age variables DhRespAg and DhRPAge (Sweep 8 data file), and DiRespAg and DiRPAge (Sweep 9 data file), have been replaced with banded age variables.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;For the 18th edition (November 2020), the data file for Sweep 7 has been revised. Several derived variables have been updated due to changes to the use of both formal and informal childcare during term-time.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;