About GUIDE/EuroCohort

Horizon 2020 program (2021-2025)

INED Project Leader: Nathalie Le Bouteillec, Sandra Florian, Ognjen Obucina

Coordination: Manchester Metropolitan University

Partners: 20 countries involved

Context

• Ensuring the well-being of children and young people is one of the major global challenges, notably cited in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
• The European Union has announced the creation of a European Child Guarantee to ensure that "every child at risk of poverty or social exclusion in Europe has access to the most basic rights, such as health care and education".
• Inequalities are now studied via a longitudinal approach, in relation to past events and future probabilities. However, the availability of longitudinal and comparable data to analyze the well-being of children as they grow up is currently uneven in Europe.
• This is the first European longitudinal study to measure and understand the well-being of children and youth.

Objectives

• To address the lack of availability of robust, comparable, and appropriate data for monitoring and assessing child well-being in Europe by:
• Facilitating and improving access to existing survey data on child well-being.
• Expanding the Growing Up in Digital Europe (GUIDE/Eurocohort) survey network
• Initiating the GUIDE/EuroCohort survey with a pilot survey on a large-scale cohort using harmonized research designs and tools in key European countries, including France.

The major steps  

Many participants are involved: several partners in 20 countries.

• Each country is conducting the same survey
• A birth cohort of 10,000 children and their families, and a cohort of 8,000 8-year-olds in France. That’s 100,000 children on a European scale!
• Questionnaires are administered in several waves to parents and children throughout childhood and into adulthood: socio-demographic and socio-economic elements, employment status, friendships, values and opinions, health and well-being, housing conditions, elements on pregnancy and birth, elements on education, childcare, leisure and sports activities, aspirations, significant events, self-image.