Child and Youth Wellbeing: Longitudinal evidence for Research and Policy

This event brings together key scientists and policy makers to highlight examples of how longitudinal survey data has contributed to a better understanding of children and young people lives in different countries and the ways in which social policy interventions benefit from investments in survey data infrastructure.

High quality longitudinal data on child development and wellbeing is routinely used to answer scientific and policy questions wherever such data is collected. Its importance in understanding national contexts and in developing national interventions to meet challenges related to inequalities of education, health and poverty is widely accepted.

In many countries, however, there is a critical gap in their data infrastructure on child development and wellbeing as they do not yet collect longitudinal data on children hence there are significant gaps which suggest that much policy related expenditure on child wellbeing is not supported by robust evidence. The Growing Up In Digital Europe (GUIDE) research Infrastructure is seeking to address this significant data gap at the same time as making it more possible to undertake comparative analysis through the collection of harmonised longitudinal data across Europe.

This event, organised by the GUIDE study team, will include research evidence from longitudinal studies and policy perspectives on child and youth well-being, as well as giving an overview of the Growing Up in Digital Europe study.

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• This is a free in person event but registration is necessary.
• Full programme will be updated and sent to registered guests.

Host or Publisher Policy Evaluation & Research Unit