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Health Survey Findings
Figure 12: Number of women who report having breastfed any child, of the women who have
had a child, in the AITHS and SLAN studies.
60
50
40
% of women
30
20
10
0
All Travellers
SLAN 07 GMS
All SLAN 07
All Travellers
SLAN 07 GMS
All SLAN 07
All Travellers
SLAN 07 GMS
All SLAN 07
All Travellers
SLAN 07 GMS
All SLAN 07
Under 30 30 to 44 45 to 64 65 and over
In total, 90.3% of ROI and 97.3% of NI Travellers reported that their child did not have an ongoing
chronic health problem, illness or disability. From the 2008-2009 NI Continuous Household survey, 94%
of children in the general NI population and 90.9% of the NI children of semi-skilled or unskilled workers
also reported no long-term illness. Asthma was the commonest reported chronic health condition in
Traveller children, and this finding is similar to data from the general Irish population. A recent report
(Manning et al., 2007) indicates that 21.6% of 13 to 14-year-old children in the general ROI population
reported ever having asthma.
Parents in the AITHS were asked to rate their child’s current health (Table 246). There are more ‘Excellent’
ratings in the AITHS groups than in the comparative datasets, although the different methods of data
ascertainment in the HBSC study must be borne in mind. In the HBSC, data were collected from the
children themselves, not their parents or guardians, as in the AITHS.
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