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

该项目旨在塑造、测试和展示新链接的“理解童年”数据集在解决数据缺口和建立新的定量证据方面的价值，重点关注罗姆人、吉普赛人、游民儿童和青少年儿童作为案例研究。“理解童年”数据集将2011年人口普查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AEDE数据集的所有教育数据进行匹配）。这种新的数据联系提供了一个独特的机会，可以建立关于童年经历和环境（通过对2011年人口普查数据的深度分析）与同一儿童和年轻人的教育成就和轨迹（通过对AEDE数据的进一步分析）之间关系的深入定量证据。2011年人口普查的数据包含关于童年环境和经历的丰富信息（包括关于家庭背景和家庭人口及社会经济特征的数据，如种族、出生国、残疾、健康、职业群体、住房条件和父母教育）。AEDE包括儿童和年轻人在国家资助的教育中的教育记录，包括学校、继续教育和高等教育。拟议的项目将探索使用这个新的和令人兴奋的关联数据集的潜力，以建立一个非常需要的证据基础，研究RGT童年环境和经历与他们的教育参与和进步（包括16-18岁和18岁以后的教育）之间的关系。需要一个专门的探索性项目，因为需要解决额外的概念和方法上的挑战，以便定制和使用“理解童年”相关数据集来分析RGT年轻人的结果和情况。从概念上讲，有必要以一种捕捉和反映RGT相对于其他儿童的劣势和脆弱性的方式分析童年环境，以及RGT社区内的分化模式（例如，包括Burchardt等人2018年强调的与定居状态和流动状态相关的分化模式）。在方法上，其他挑战包括相对较低的RGT人口比例，2011年人口普查和行政教育记录中已知的RGT种族少报，已知的RGT儿童和年轻人在学校，特别是在继续教育和高等教育中的参与率较低（Mulkahy等人2017年，Cabinet Office 2018年）。这些概念和方法上的挑战（以及潜在的解决方案）已经提前与国家统计局进行了讨论，并在项目设计中纳入了与国家统计局密切合作以解决这些问题的资源。该项目以CCO的政策议程为基础，通过使用新的创新数据链接来建立关于弱势儿童群体的证据基础，解决数据差距和隐形问题（CCO 2019）。Burchardt等人（2018年）和最近的议会委员会报告（2019年妇女与平等委员会）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、ONS和儿童专员办公室（CCO）组成的“儿童数据”战略伙伴关系的一部分，并得到MHCLG（包括解决RGT不平等问题的国家战略，MHCLG 2018）和内阁办公室种族差异小组（RDU）的支持和政策议程。该项目建立在CASE团队早期工作的基础上，旨在解决“数据排斥”问题，并通过对四组儿童建立新的定量证据来解决社会统计中的不可见性问题，这些儿童以前在数据监测练习中失踪或“隐形”（Vizard et al . 2018）。

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).