Shaping, testing and demonstrating the value of the Understanding Childhood dataset: Roma, Gypsy and Traveller children case study

该项目旨在形成、测试和展示新关联的了解童年数据集在弥补数据差距和建立新的量化证据方面的价值，重点是以罗姆人、吉普赛人和旅行者儿童和青年儿童为个案研究。了解童年数据集将2011年人口普查的数据与教育记录的行政数据联系起来(通过将2011年人口普查记录与英格兰所有教育数据AEDE数据集进行匹配)。这种新的数据联系提供了一个独特的机会，可以就童年经历和环境(通过深入分析2011年人口普查数据)与同样的儿童和青年的教育成就和轨迹(通过进一步分析AEDE数据)之间的关系建立深入的量化证据。2011年人口普查数据包括关于儿童情况和经历的丰富信息(包括关于家庭背景和家庭人口和社会经济特征的数据，如族裔、出生国、残疾、健康、职业群体、住房条件和父母教育)。AEDE包括国家资助的教育中儿童和年轻人的教育记录，包括在学校、继续教育和高等教育中的教育记录。拟议的项目将探索使用这一新的和令人兴奋的相关数据集的潜力，以建立一个亟需的证据基础，以确定RGT儿童的环境和经历与其教育参与和进步之间的关系(包括16-18岁和18岁后的教育)。需要开展这类专门的探索性项目，因为需要解决概念和方法上的其他挑战，以便调整和使用与理解童年有关的数据集，以分析RGT青年的结果和情况。从概念上讲，有必要分析儿童的情况，以捕捉和反映RGT相对于其他儿童的劣势和脆弱性，以及RGT社区内部的差异化模式(例如，包括Burchardt等人2018年强调的与固定和流动状态相关的差异化模式)。在方法上，其他挑战包括RGT人口比例相对较低，已知在2011年人口普查和行政教育记录中RGT族裔报告不足，RGT儿童和年轻人在教育、学校、特别是继续教育和高等教育中的参与率较低(Mulkahy等人，2017年，内阁办公室，2018年)。事先与国家统计局讨论了这些概念和方法挑战(及其可能的解决办法)，并在项目设计中纳入了与国家统计局密切合作解决这些挑战的资源。该项目建立在CCO政策议程的基础上，即通过使用新的和创新的数据链接来建立关于弱势儿童群体的证据库，从而解决数据差距和解决隐蔽性问题(CCO 2019)。Burchardt等人在2018年和最近的一份议会委员会报告(妇女与平等委员会2019年)中讨论了缺乏关于RGT结果和情况的可靠数据，以及这些数据差距的原因和后果。该项目是由ADR UK、英国国家统计局和儿童事务专员办公室(CCO)组成的“儿童数据”战略伙伴关系的一部分，并得到MHCLG政策议程(包括解决RGT不平等问题的国家战略，MHCLG 2018)和内阁府种族不平等股(RDU)的支持和支持。该项目建立在案例小组为解决“数据排斥”问题和解决社会统计中的隐蔽性问题而开展的早期工作的基础上，通过建立以前在数据监测活动中失踪或“隐形”的四组儿童的新的量化证据(Vizard等人，2018年)。

The project aims to shape, test and demonstrate the value of the newly linked Understanding Childhood dataset in addressing data gaps and building up new quantitative evidence, focussing on Roma, Gypsy and Traveller children and young people children as a case study. The Understanding Childhood dataset links data from the 2011 Census to administrative data on educational records (by matching 2011 Census records to the All Education Data for England AEDE dataset). This new data linkage provides a unique opportunity to build up in-depth quantitative evidence on the relationship between childhood experiences and circumstances (through depth analysis of 2011 Census data) and the educational achievements and trajectories of the same children and young people (through further analysis of AEDE data). Data from the 2011 Census includes rich information on childhood circumstances and experiences (including data on family background and household demographic and socioeconomic characteristics such as ethnicity, country of birth, disability, health, occupational group, housing conditions and parental education). The AEDE includes the educational records of children and young people in state funded education including in schools, further education and higher education. The proposed project will explore the potential for using this new and exciting linked dataset to build up a much needed evidence base on the relationship between RGT childhood circumstances and experiences and their educational participation and progression (including within 16-18 and post-18 education). A dedicated exploratory project of this type is required because of the additional conceptual and methodological challenges that need to be addressed in order to tailor and use the Understanding Childhood linked dataset for the analysis of the outcomes and circumstances of RGT young people. Conceptually, it will be necessary to analyse childhood circumstances in a way that captures and reflects RGT disadvantage and vulnerability relative to other children, as well as patterns of differentiation within the RGT community (including, for example, the patterns of differentiation associated with settled versus mobile status highlighted in Burchardt et al 2018). Methodologically, additional challenges include the relatively low RGT population fraction, the known underreporting of RGT ethnicity within both the 2011 Census and administrative education records, the known low participation rates of RGT children and young people in education, in schools and especially in further and higher education (Mulkahy et al 2017, Cabinet Office 2018). These conceptual and methodological challenges (as well as their potential solutions) have been discussed in advance with ONS, and resources to work closely with ONS to address them have been built into the project design. The project builds on the CCO policy agenda of addressing data gaps and tackling invisibility by using new and innovative data linkages to build up an evidence base on vulnerable groups of children (CCO 2019). Lack of robust data on RGT outcomes and circumstances, as well as the causes and consequences of these data gaps, are discussed in Burchardt et al, 2018 and a recent Parliamentary Committee Report (Women and Equalities Committee 2019). The project is being proposed as part of the 'Data for Children' strategic partnership formed by ADR UK, ONS and the Office of the Children's Commissioner (CCO), and is supported by and feeds into the policy agendas of MHCLG (including the national strategy to tackle RGT inequalities, MHCLG 2018) and the Cabinet Office Race Disparities Unit (RDU). The project builds on earlier work by the CASE team to address the problem of "data exclusion" and to tackle invisibility in social statistics by building up new quantitative evidence on four groups of children that were previously missing from, or "invisible within", data monitoring exercises (Vizard et al 2018).