Do children who move home and school frequently have poorer educational outcomes in their early years at school? An anonymised cohort study

• Published in: PloS one 2013-08, Vol.8 (8), p.e70601-e70601
• Main Authors: Hutchings, Hayley A, Evans, Annette, Barnes, Peter, Demmler, Joanne, Heaven, Martin, Hyatt, Melanie A, James-Ellison, Michelle, Lyons, Ronan A, Maddocks, Alison, Paranjothy, Shantini, Rodgers, Sarah E, Dunstan, Frank
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Academic achievement; Achievement; Age; Analysis; Breastfeeding & lactation; Child; Child, Preschool; Children; Children & youth; Childrens health; Cohort analysis; Cohort Studies; Computer Science; Demographics; Demography; Education; Educational attainment; Educational evaluation; Female; Health care; Health care industry; High schools; Humans; Male; Medicine; Mobility; Population Dynamics - statistics & numerical data; Primary care; Public health; Regression analysis; Schools - statistics & numerical data; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Students; Studies; Support services
• ISSN: 1932-6203; 1932-6203
• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070601

Frequent mobility has been linked to poorer educational attainment. We investigated the association between moving home and moving school frequently and the early childhood formal educational achievement. We carried out a cohort analysis of 121,422 children with anonymised linked records. Our exposure measures were: 1) the number of residential moves registered with a health care provider, and 2) number of school moves. Our outcome was the formal educational assessment at age 6-7. Binary regression modeling was used to examine residential moves within the three time periods: 0 -