Does the parent or child know best? An
assessment of parent/child agreement in the Canadian national longitudinal survey
of children and youth
by Lori Curtis, Martin Dooley and Shelley Phipps
Family and Labour Studies Division
Analytical Studies Branch research paper
series, No. 181
We use data from the Canadian National Longitudinal Survey
of Children and Youth to address two questions. To what extent do parents and
children agree when asked identical questions about child well-being? To what
extent do differences in their responses affect what one infers from multivariate
analysis of the data? The correspondence between parent and child in the assessment
of child well-being is only slight to fair. Agreement is stronger for more observable
outcomes, such as schooling performance, and weaker for less observable outcomes,
such as emotional disorders.
We regress both sets of responses on a standard
set of socio-economic characteristics. We also conduct formal and informal tests
of the differences in what one would infer from these two sets of regressions.
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