The childrens environment survey 2011: 12 years
SND-ID: ext0272-3.
Is part of collection at SND: Scania Metadatabase for Epidemiology (SME)
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Contact
Antonios Georgelis
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Antonios Georgelis - Stockholms läns landsting, Centrum för Arbets- och miljömedicin
Research principal
Public Health Agency of Sweden
- Institute of Environmental Medicine
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.
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.
In addition to the study in 2011 a previously survey had been conducted in 2003, making it possible to compare the results and show how children’s environment and health changed during the eight years between the surveys.
Purpose:
The aim was to chart how environmental factors like air pollution, noise and indoor environment effects the health of children and adolescents. Show less..
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
Number of individuals/objects
14531
Response rate/participation rate
46%
Data format / data structure
Geographic spread
Geographic location: Sweden
Lowest geographic unit
County (NUTS 3)
Highest geographic unit
Country
Responsible department/unit
Institute of Environmental Medicine
Research area
Medical and health sciences (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)
Health sciences (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)
Occupational health and environmental health (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)
Health (CESSDA Topic Classification)
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, Nicotiana, Hypersensitivity, Parks, Schools, Housing conditions, Sun protection, Socio-economic status, Green belt areas, Scania, Epihealth, Epihealth_skåne