Insights: PEACH data

These podcasts look at how the data can be used: what have researchers found, and what we can learn from it? I’m your host, Chris Coates, and in this episode, I’m talking to Edith Aguirre, a senior research officer at the Institute for Social and Economic Research about our Pregnancy and Early Childhood data file, which is known as the PEACH file. [...] Chris Coates 01:30 So how is the- how is the PEACH file going to help those researchers? Edith Aguirre 01.34 So what the PEACH file does is that it brings together data from all children reported in the main survey from Wave 1 to the latest release, and this is what makes easy to track child development over time, and also linking to our main datasets is straightforward, so researchers can dive de. [...] Chris Coates 02:22 OK, so what’s actually in the PEACH file? Edith Aguirre 02:25 Something very important about the PEACH file is that the information is at the child level. [...] Chris Coates 04:07 OK, and so who’s in it? Which participants are in are in the file? Edith Aguirre 04:11 We have gathered information over 32,000 children in the 13 waves of Understanding Society that have been released so far. [...] Chris Coates 06:53 And thinking about how parents interact with their children and how that affects their behaviour and wellbeing, I think you've recently published a paper about parents’ gender attitudes and children's mental health, and that used the Understanding Society data on children's development and parenting behaviour.