Title |
Adolescent outcomes and opportunities in a Canadian province: looking at siblings and neighbors
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Published in |
BMC Public Health, May 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-14-506 |
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Authors |
Leslie L Roos, Randy Walld, Julia Witt |
Abstract |
Well-organized administrative data with large numbers of cases (building on linked files from several government departments) and a population registry facilitate new studies of population health and child development. Analyses of family relationships and a number of outcomes--educational achievement, health, teen pregnancy, and receipt of income assistance--are relatively easy to conduct using several birth cohorts. Looking both at means/proportions and at sibling correlations enriches our study of opportunity and well-being in late adolescence. With observational research possibly exaggerating the causal effects of risk factors, sibling comparisons involving individuals sharing both many family characteristics and many genes help deal with such criticisms. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Canada | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
Canada | 1 | 1% |
Unknown | 84 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Researcher | 13 | 15% |
Student > Bachelor | 12 | 14% |
Student > Master | 12 | 14% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 8 | 9% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 6% |
Other | 8 | 9% |
Unknown | 28 | 33% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 18 | 21% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 9 | 10% |
Social Sciences | 8 | 9% |
Psychology | 5 | 6% |
Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 3 | 3% |
Other | 8 | 9% |
Unknown | 35 | 41% |