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Nagy, Beáta Erika; Kenyhercz, Flóra; Szele, Anna Szabina – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Due to the high rates of preterm births, it is essential to examine the developmental risk factors and monitor development. The aim of our cross-sectional study is to examine the cognitive, language and motor development of LBW (<2500 g) children (N = 438) regarding sociodemographic risk factors. We measured the 2-year development with the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Toddlers, Premature Infants, Cognitive Development
Gilleece, Lorraine; McHugh, Gráinne – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2022
Reducing the socio-economic achievement gap is a key goal of education policy internationally. Since 2017, the stated intention in Ireland is to use the Pobal HP Deprivation Index to identify schools serving high proportions of disadvantaged students. In spite of this, little published research has compared the performance of the HP index to…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
Shukla, Vachaspati; Mishra, Udaya S. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2017
This article evaluates the progress in literacy among the Indian states, from an age-cohort perspective. It argues that age-cohort analysis offers a robust understanding of the dynamics of literacy progress. The article clearly brings out the fact that, despite the accomplishment of universal elementary education, achieving the goal of full…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, Academic Achievement, Demography
Marsh, Alan J. – Research Papers in Education, 2022
This paper provides an overview of the rate of appeal to the Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Tribunal in England by analysis of official data published by the Ministry of Justice. The article will also consider the effects of socio-economic deprivation on appeals and hearings, the fiscal constraints placed on Local Authorities and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Students with Disabilities, Public Policy, Conflict Resolution
Cathorall, Michelle L.; Xin, Huaibo; Peachey, Andrew; Bibeau, Daniel L.; Schulz, Mark; Aronson, Robert – American Journal of Health Education, 2015
Purpose: To examine the extent to which neighborhood disadvantage accounts for variation in blood pressure. Methods: Demographic, biometric, and self-reported data from 19,261 health screenings were used. Addresses of participants were geocoded and located within census block groups (n = 14,510, 75.3%). Three hierarchical linear models were…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Hypertension, Demography, Stress Variables
Fernandes, Liliana; Mendes, Americo; Teixeira, Aurora A. C. – Social Indicators Research, 2012
Research on indicators related to the state of child well-being is a growing field that has experienced several changes over time. The growing supply of data on children, as well as the need to facilitate conclusions and to track trends, has led researchers to develop a number of child well-being indexes. This paper critically reviews the most…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Indicators, Well Being, Children
Sanchez-Cantalejo, Carmen; Ocana-Riola, Ricardo; Fernandez-Ajuria, Alberto – Social Indicators Research, 2008
The term deprivation is often used to refer to economic or social shortages in a given geographical area. This concept of deprivation has been identified for years using simple indicators such as income level, education and social class. One of the advantages of using simple indicators is the availability of data, since they come directly from…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Municipalities, Social Class, Poverty
Stringer, Neil; Chan, Michael; Bimpeh, Yaw; Chan, Philip – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2017
This study investigates the effects of socioeconomic status and schooling on the academic attainment of a cohort of students at a single medical school (N = 240). Partial least squares structural equation modelling was used to explore how students' summative assessment scores over 4 years of medical school were affected by: attainment in secondary…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Influences, Educational Attainment, Medical Students, Structural Equation Models
Christoph, Bernhard – Social Indicators Research, 2010
Among the surprising results of research on the relation between a person's material circumstances and his or her subjective well-being was the finding that this relationship appears to be rather weak (throughout this paper the terms "(general) life satisfaction", "(subjective) satisfaction", "happiness" and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Poverty, Income, Life Satisfaction
Hayes, Alison – Research-publishing.net, 2016
Since 2011, York St John University (YSJU) has run an annual one-day "Careers using Languages" conference for schools in Yorkshire and Humberside. It has the aim of demonstrating to school students the opportunities in life that speaking a foreign language opens up as well as showing how they will be able to offer an added bonus to their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Languages, Career Planning, Conferences (Gatherings)
Pring, Tim – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2016
Background: The inverse-care law suggests that fewer healthcare resources are available in deprived areas where health needs are greatest. Aims: To examine the provision of paediatric speech and language services across London boroughs and to relate provision to the level of deprivation of the boroughs. Methods & Procedures: Information on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pediatrics, Speech Impairments, Speech Language Pathology
Hallerod, Bjorn; Bask, Miia – Social Indicators Research, 2008
The central aim of the present paper is to analyse the degree to which welfare problems accumulate over time and to what extent such an accumulation is related to class position and household formation. We utilize longitudinal data from the Swedish Survey of Living Conditions, following a panel that was first interviewed in 1979 and, thereafter,…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Disadvantaged Environment, Longitudinal Studies, National Surveys
Noble, Michael; Wright, Gemma – Social Indicators Research, 2013
This paper presents a spatial analysis of multiple deprivation in South Africa and demonstrates that the most deprived areas in the country are located in the rural former homeland areas. The analysis is undertaken using the datazone level South African Index of Multiple Deprivation which was constructed from the 2001 Census. Datazones are a new…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged Environment
Whiteman, Martin; And Others – 1965
A cross-sectional study of 292 first and fifth grade Negro and white children examined the relationship between environmental factors and performance test scores of verbal and cognitive ability. The socioeconomic status (SES) of each subject was determined and included in a deprivation index formed by obtaining a composite score for each subject…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Ability, Correlation, Disadvantaged
Matsuyama, Yusuke; Subramanian, S. V.; Fujiwara, Takeo – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2021
Higher education increases the likelihood of a healthy and successful life. This study investigated the association between relative deprivation and aspiration for college education in adolescents in Japan. The data of the 2016 survey of the Longitudinal Survey of Newborns in the twenty-first Century, a nationwide birth cohort study following…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Adolescents, Poverty, Academic Aspiration