the middle of the category, and roughly ‘Average’ one third fell in each of the bandings, although the clustering of responses meant that considerably more than one third are included in the middle band. implies good relationships with teachers in ‘Higher’ all respects, while implies occasional ‘Average’ issues. is in relation to others who have ‘Lower’ taken the survey. Experiences Derived from Four questions taken from Growing Up in Scotland of being questions about asking the frequency of different experiences bullied experiences of once a once a (‘Most days’, ‘About week’, ‘About (primary being bullied few or Responses month’, ‘Every months’, ‘Never’). school survey) (primary are combined into a single scale of 4-20. Scores of ChPick1 to 9-20 were recorded as (greater exposure ‘Higher ChPick4) to and 4-5 as (less bullying)’, 6-8 ‘Average’ ‘Lower exposure to These bandings match bullying)’. those used in the first year of RCS surveys, and, similar to the life satisfaction scale for the primary school survey, were decided upon so that the mean score fell in the middle of the ‘Average’ category, and roughly one third fell in each of the bandings, although the clustering of responses meant that considerably more than one third are included in the lower band. equates to some form of bullying roughly ‘Average’ every month, although could be more frequent if other forms of bullying were not experienced. and are in relation to others who ‘Higher’ ‘lower’ have taken the survey. Ease of Derived from The two questions were added, to create a scale of feeding questions about 2-8, with 2-3 recorded as to 4-6 as ‘easy feed’, (parent ease of feeding and 7-8 as to to ‘average’ ‘difficult feed’. ‘Easy survey) and variety of to saying the child was very easy or feed’ equated food (parent quite easy to feed, and would eat most things, or FeedEas very easy to feed and would eat a reasonable VarFood) variety of things. Birth weight Derived from Low birth weight was recorded as below 2.5 kg (5lb (parent questions about 8 oz) survey) weight at child’s birth in metric or imperial
the middle of the ‘Average’ category, and roughly one third fell in each of the bandings, although the clustering of responses meant that considerably more than one third are included in the middle band. ‘Higher’ implies good relationships with teachers in all respects, while ‘Average’ implies occasional issues. ‘Lower’ is in relation to others who have taken the survey. Experiences of being bullied (primary school survey) Derived from questions about experiences of being bullied (primary ChPick1 to ChPick4) Four questions taken from Growing Up in Scotland asking the frequency of different experiences (‘Most days’, ‘About once a week’, ‘About once a month’, ‘Every few months’, or ‘Never’). Responses are combined into a single scale of 4-20. Scores of 9-20 were recorded as ‘Higher (greater exposure to bullying)’, 6-8 ‘Average’ and 4-5 as ‘Lower (less exposure to bullying)’. These bandings match those used in the first year of RCS surveys, and, similar to the life satisfaction scale for the primary school survey, were decided upon so that the mean score fell in the middle of the ‘Average’ category, and roughly one third fell in each of the bandings, although the clustering of responses meant that considerably more than one third are included in the lower band. ‘Average’ equates to some form of bullying roughly every month, although could be more frequent if other forms of bullying were not experienced. ‘Higher’ and ‘lower’ are in relation to others who have taken the survey. Ease of feeding (parent survey) Derived from questions about ease of feeding and variety of food (parent FeedEas VarFood) The two questions were added, to create a scale of 2-8, with 2-3 recorded as ‘easy to feed’, 4-6 as ‘average’ and 7-8 as ‘difficult to feed’. ‘Easy to feed’ equated to saying the child was very easy or quite easy to feed, and would eat most things, or very easy to feed and would eat a reasonable variety of things. Birth weight (parent survey) Derived from questions about child’s weight at birth in metric or imperial Low birth weight was recorded as below 2.5 kg (5lb 8 oz)