Non-technical summary

From wave 2 the module collected information on the number of adopted and biological children and the DOB of the eldest child only. [...] Under aim 1 of the review, improving identification of PLA could be achieved in general by: • asking about dependent children of adults in the sample living in and outside of the household across a range of modules (fertility history and direct questions about children elsewhere/parents elsewhere) as was tested in Innovation Panel 10. [...] As the child living elsewhere is not a sample member, this will involve asking for the name, date of birth and sex of the non-resident child to enable us to identify and match the child across waves, the success of which will be dependent on data quality. [...] However, reviews have also noted some limitations to the data in this module, including gaps in the data: • questions do not record the number and age of non-resident children, when the parents separated, or information about the resident parent and the parents relationship with each other (Haux et al., 2017). [...] Non-Resident Children module (new module shortened version in wave 14/ full version in wave 15) In line with aim 1 of the review, this module adapts and improves upon information collected in the Family Networks module (above) to identify whether all non-resident children have the same other parent and asks who the child lives with and whether they have ever lived with the respondent (livedwithnrc.