LifeCourse A Melbourne Children's Research Initiative

COBRA: Demographics

Relevant LifeCourse Constructs	Year	2009-Ongoing	2009-Ongoing
	Phase	Baseline	Clinic Visit
	Age	2-18 years	2-18 years
	N	in progress	in progress
Biological sex			P:SV-BS ^I P:SV-BS ^P
Country of birth			P:SV-CoB ^P
Date of birth			P:SV-DoB ^I P:SV-DoB ^P
Employment status			P:SV-ES ^P
Ethnic group			P:SV-E ^P
Financial circumstances			P:COBRA ^P
Household composition			P:FLAME ^I P:SV-HC ^I
Income			P:SV-I ^P
Language spoken			P:SV-LS ^P
Level of educational attainment			P:SV-EA ^P
Marital or partnership status			P:SV-MS ^P
Migrant status			P:COBRA ^P
Number of siblings			P:SV-SI ^I
Residential locality			P:SV-P ^I P:ABS-SEIFA ^I
Respondent information			P:SV-RI ^I	P:SV-RI ^I

Featured measurements

ABS-SEIFA: : Australian Bureau of Statistics Devised - Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas
COBRA: : Childhood Overweight BioRepository of Australia Study-devised measure
FLAME: : Family Lifestyle, Activity, Movement, and Eating Study-devised measure
SV-BS: : Study Version - Biological Sex Indicator
SV-CoB: : Study Version - Country of Birth indicator
SV-DoB: : Study Version - Date of Birth indicator
SV-EA: : Study Version - Educational Attainment measure
SV-ES: : Study Version - Employment Status measure
SV-E: : Study Version - Ethnicity measure
SV-HC: : Study Version - Household Composition measure
SV-I: : Study Version - Income indicator
SV-LS: : Study Version - Language Spoken measure
SV-MS: : Study Version - Marital Status indicator
SV-P: : Study Version - Postcode indicator
SV-RI: : Study Version - Respondent Information measure
SV-SI: : Study Version - Siblings Information measure

Legend

B: = Biosample collected
BA: = Biosample analysis
G: = Grandparent(s) completed questionnaire
L: = Data linkage
N: = Nurse completed questionnaire
O: = Observation or direct assessment
Of: = Offspring completed questionnaire
P: = Parent/guardian completed questionnaire
Pe: = Peer completed questionnaire
R: = Records abstraction
S: = Self (primary participant) completed questionnaire
T: = Teacher completed questionnaire
X: = Other source
X ^F: = Pertains to father
X ^Fam: = Pertains to family
X ^G: = Pertains to grandparent(s)
X ^I: = Pertains to primary participant
X ^IP: = Pertains to partner
X ^M: = Pertains to mother
X ^O: = Pertains to offspring
X ^P: = Pertains to parent/guardian(s)
X ^Pe: = Pertains to peers
X ^Si: = Pertains to sibling(s)
X ^T: = Pertains to teacher(s)
X ^X: = Pertains to other reportees

Metadata presented by LifeCourse provides a crucial first step in understanding the available data across studies. It does not take the place of detailed study documentation, which should always be consulted during design and analysis.