Growing Up in Scotland: Year 3 - Parenting and the Neighbourhood Context

Abstract

This report uses data from the Growing Up in Scotland study (GUS) to explore families’ experiences of living in Scotland’s neighbourhoods, to examine parents’ views on different aspects of their local area and to consider the relationship between area characteristics and parenting behaviours. The findings in this report are drawn mainly from data collected in the neighbourhood module which was run in the third wave of fieldwork (undertaken between April 2007 and May 2008) - when children in the birth cohort were aged just under 3 years old and those in the child cohort were just under 5 years old – although information from the first two waves of GUS is also used.