PHDCN: School and Day Care Screen for Chicago Children, Wave 2, 1997-2000

Over 6,000 children, adolescents, and young adults were followed in a longitudinal study of human development in Chicago. The School and Day Care Screen, part of the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, collected information on educational settings, parental involvement, and childcare characteristics. This Wave 2 instrument, administered between 1997 and 2000, repeats questions from an earlier wave to track changes over time.

Use Cases

• Modeling the influence of parental school involvement on child outcomes based on survey questions about parental expectations and participation.
• Analyzing the relationship between childcare setting characteristics and child development based on data describing providers and environments.
• Studying longitudinal changes in educational circumstances by comparing repeated measures from Wave 1 and Wave 2 screen instruments.

Strengths

• Longitudinal design following over 6,000 subjects across multiple waves, allowing for analysis of change over time.
• Interdisciplinary scope measures individual, family, peer, and school influences on development.
• Data collection is part of a large-scale, coordinated study led by researchers from Harvard University.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count for this specific screen instrument is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data reflects a specific geographic and temporal bias, being focused on Chicago neighborhoods from 1997 to 2000.

Provenance

Source

Harvard University, led by Felton J. Earls as part of the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN).

Collection Method

Survey instrument (School and Day Care Screen) administered to primary caregivers of randomly selected longitudinal cohort subjects.

Time Range

1997-2000

Geography

Chicago neighborhoods, USA