Positive behaviour in the early years: research report

ANNEX 2 ADDITIONAL ANALYSIS OF BACKGROUND INFORMATION

2 (i) Parent Age

Over half of responding parents were in the 30-40 age group (n=322) with the next largest group being in the 22-20 age range (n=173). Eighteen parents under the age of 21 responded, whilst there were 63 responding parents between the ages of 40-50 years.

		Frequency	Percent	Valid Percent	Cumulative Percent
Valid	Under 17	5	0.8	0.9	0.9
	17-21	13	2.2	2.3	3.1
	22-30	173	28.7	30.0	33.1
	30-40	322	53.4	55.8	88.9
	40-50	63	10.4	10.9	99.8
	50+	1	0.2	0.2	100.0
	Total	577	95.7	100.0
Missing	0	7	1.2
	System	19	3.2
	Total	26	4.3
Total		603	100.0

2 (ii) Are you living with a partner?

77% of families in the sample were living as a two-parent family; 26% of these were living in reconstituted families.

2 (iii) Are you working?

117 parents were working full-time, 209 were working part-time and 243 were not in employment outside the home.

		Frequency	Percent	Valid Percent	Cumulative Percent
Valid	yes, full-time	117	19.4	20.6	20.6
	yes, part-time	209	34.7	36.7	57.3
	No	243	40.3	42.7	100.0
	Total	569	94.4	100.0
Missing	0	15	2.5
	System	19	3.2
	Total	34	5.6
Total		603	100.0

n=77 for public sector (13%)
n=66 for professional (11%)

n= 38 for office staff (6%)
n=38 for customer service/sales (6%)

2 (iv) Is your partner working?

In 369 cases partners of respondents were in paid full-time work and 30 were in part-time work. 65 were not currently working.

		Frequency	Percent	Valid Percent	Cumulative Percent
Valid	yes, full-time	369	61.2	79.5	79.5
	yes, part-time	30	5.0	6.5	86.0
	No	65	10.8	14.0	100.0
	Total	464	76.9	100.0
Missing	0	120	19.9
	System	19	3.2
	Total	139	23.1
Total		603	100.0

n=121 for manual (20%)
n=80 for professional (13%)
n=62 for managerial (10%)

2 (v) Highest or most recent educational attainment

More respondents were qualified to standard grade than to any other level of educational qualification (n=88=15%). The next largest group (n=81=13%) were qualified to degree level.

n=88 for standard grade (15%)
n=81 for BA/ BSc (13%)

n=59 for higher grade
n=53 for o-level
n=48 for n/a
n=47 for SVQ

2 (vi) Own/Rent Home

Over half the responding families were home owners

61% owns home
37% rents home
2% other

2 (vii) Support
Families reported support is available to them from several different sources - more reported support from other family members than from outside the family.

n=138 for family (23%)
n=60 for after-school/childminder (10%)
social worker (3%)
health visitor (1%)

2 (viii) Ethnic Origin

Respondents were asked to indicate their ethnic background. The majority of respondents were white British in origin.

		Frequency	Percent	Valid Percent	Cumulative Percent
Valid	1	474	78.6	100.0	100.0
Missing	0	110	18.2
	System	19	3.2
	Total	129	21.4
Total		603	100.0

7.5% other British
2.7% other white
1% Pakistani
0.5% Asian
0.3% Indian
0.2% Chinese

2 (ix) Disabled

2% consider themselves to be disabled

2 (x) Religion
33% no indication + 15% indicated to have none
23% Catholic
15% Protestant