Residential mobility in early childhood

Lawrence, Elizabeth; Root, Elisabeth Dowling; Mollborn, Stefanie

doi:10.4054/demres.2015.33.32

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“…Others have found that incomplete records were less likely to match and were often related to social disadvantage [43,44]. Frequent residential mobility, which is common in early childhood [45,46], is associated with increased risk of poor physical and/or mental health and such children are overrepresented in low income families, children with no fully employed adult in the household, and children in single-parent households [45][46][47]. Residential mobility, including a short period of time in class (< one month) before the EDI completion, may have contributed to unlinked records and vulnerability findings based on our inability to match on postal code in the RPDB and EDI where updates to each database may not occur simultaneously.…”

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Use of administrative record linkage to measure medical and social risk factors for early developmental vulnerability in Ontario, Canada

Saunders

Janus

Porter³

et al. 2021

IJPDS

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BackgroundLinkage of demographic, health, and developmental administrative data can enrich population-based surveillance and research on developmental and educational outcomes. Transparency of the record linkage process and results are required to assess potential biases. ObjectivesTo describe the approach used to link records of kindergarten children from the Early Development Instrument (EDI) in Ontario to health administrative data and test differences in characteristics of children by linkage status. We demonstrate how socio-demographic and medical risk factors amass in their contribution to early developmental vulnerability and test the concordance of health diagnoses in both the EDI and health datasets of linked records. MethodsChildren with records in the 2015 EDI cycle were deterministically linked to a population registry in Ontario, Canada. We compared sociodemographic and developmental vulnerability data between linked and unlinked records. Among linked records, we examined the contribution of medical and social risk factors obtained from health administrative data to developmental vulnerability identified in the EDI using descriptive analyses. ResultsOf 135,937 EDI records, 106,217 (78.1%) linked deterministically to a child in the Ontario health registry using birth date, sex, and postal code. The linked cohort was representative of children who completed the EDI in age, sex, rural residence, immigrant status, language, and special needs status. Linked data underestimated children living in the lowest neighbourhood income quintile (standardized difference [SD] 0.10) and with higher vulnerability in physical health and well-being (SD 0.11) , social competence (SD 0.10), and language and cognitive development (SD 0.12). Analysis of linked records showed developmental vulnerability is sometimes greater in children with social risk factors compared to those with medical risk factors. Common childhood conditions with records in health data were infrequently recorded in EDI records. ConclusionsLinkage of early developmental and health administrative data, in the absence of a single unique identifier, can be successful with few systematic biases introduced. Cross-sectoral linkages can highlight the relative contribution of medical and social risk factors to developmental vulnerability and poor school achievement.

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Use of administrative record linkage to measure medical and social risk factors for early developmental vulnerability in Ontario, Canada

Saunders

Janus

Porter³

et al. 2021

IJPDS

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“…For example, recent studies by Thomas, Stillwell, and Gould (2015) and Lawrence, Root, and Mollborn (2015) have examined the characteristics of mobile groups without life event data. These studies are important for understanding new cohort or population samples and cement the importance of broad characteristics in understanding mobility patterns.…”

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Examining the influence of major life events as drivers of residential mobility and neighbourhood transitions

Morris¹

2017

DemRes

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“…Our focus on early childhood is motivated by the foundational role of this life period [55] and its hypothesized high sensitivity to area influences [21]. While young children's daily activities tend to take place within the neighborhood, early childhood is also a life phase characterized by high residential mobility [23,24,56]. A further contribution of this study is that it complements its examination of neighborhood socio-economic composition at one point in time with a consideration of neighborhood change to account for residential mobility.…”

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Neighborhood and Child Development at Age Five: A UK–US Comparison

Buttaro

Gambaro

Joshi

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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Early childhood is a critical period in the life course, setting the foundation for future life. Early life contexts—neighborhoods and families—influence developmental outcomes, especially when children are exposed to economic and social disadvantage. Residential mobility, frequent among families with pre-school children, may reduce or increase exposure to adverse surroundings. We examine children’s cognitive and behavioral outcomes at age five, in relation to neighborhood composition, family circumstances and residential moves, using two longitudinal micro datasets: an urban subsample of the UK Millennium Cohort Study (N up to 7967), and the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study in the US (N up to 1820). Each is linked to an index of neighborhood advantage, created to make UK/US comparisons, based on census and administrative information. A series of estimates indicate a strong association, in both countries, between cognitive scores and neighborhood advantage, attenuated but not eliminated by family circumstances. Children’s behavior problems, on the other hand, show less association with neighborhood advantage. There are minor and mixed differences by residential mobility particularly when neighborhood disadvantage changes. Notwithstanding the primacy of the family in predicting preschool development, the findings support the notion of neighborhood as potentially advantageous at least in relation to cognitive outcomes.

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Residential mobility in early childhood

Cited by 18 publications

References 19 publications

Use of administrative record linkage to measure medical and social risk factors for early developmental vulnerability in Ontario, Canada

Use of administrative record linkage to measure medical and social risk factors for early developmental vulnerability in Ontario, Canada

Examining the influence of major life events as drivers of residential mobility and neighbourhood transitions

Neighborhood and Child Development at Age Five: A UK–US Comparison

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