Survey description
The two-month survey is the first follow-up step after the inclusion of Elfe children in the maternity ward.
Its proximity to the maternity survey met several objectives: to gain the loyalty of parents by contacting them shortly after giving birth, to contact them while still available, since many of them would still be on maternity or paternity leave at the time of the survey; and finally, to carry out questions relating to pregnancy at a time still close to the pregnancy, in order to minimize memory bias.
Its main objectives were to determine the family’s socio-demographic characteristics, to detail the characteristics of the home in which the child lives, and to obtain initial information on the child’s development and health.
Based on the 18,041 families who had given their consent in the maternity ward, the 2-month survey could be carried out completely or incompletely on 16,301 families (90.4%).
For more information on this stage of the Elfe study, you can download the following documents:
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IMPORTANT NOTICE: Variables preceded by an asterisk (which appear in brackets in the PDF questionnaires) are not available on the platform. Most of them are considered indirectly identifying variables and require prior authorization from the CNIL (the French data protection authority). Some variables are still being processed (often labelled as "other: specify") and may be recoded or replaced later. |
