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Entwisle, Doris R.; Astone, Nan Marie – Child Development, 1994
Suggests that recent social changes and trends make it imperative to include demographics of all kinds in research on child development. Proposes guidelines to help child development researchers procure demographic information from their study population. Provides specific questions that may help researchers devise demographic indicators, and…
Descriptors: Biographical Inventories, Child Development, Data Analysis, Data Collection

Hauser, Robert M. – Child Development, 1994
Comments on the ideas presented by Entwisle and Astone in this issue. Suggests that to produce sound measurements of children's socioeconomic background requires a substantial investment in coding, data collection, and management. Nevertheless, a standard set of racial-ethnic and socioeconomic variables, no matter how well measured, cannot serve…
Descriptors: Biographical Inventories, Child Development, Data Analysis, Data Collection

Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne; Berlin, Lisa J.; Leventhal, Tama; Fuligni, Allison Sidle – Child Development, 2000
Reviews current large-scale, longitudinal studies focusing on children. Describes the data collected, including child outcomes, process-oriented information on child-parent interactions, child care quality, parental mental health, family violence, fathering, employment patterns, and community characteristics. Notes that several studies incorporate…
Descriptors: Child Development, Community Characteristics, Data Collection, Developmental Psychology