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Table 14: Changes in family type of the child between waves 2 and 3, for respondents interviewed at both waves, per centFamily type in wave 3Family type in wave 2Lone parent,no othersLone parent,othersCouplefamily,no othersCouplefamily,othersNon-parentcarerTotalLone parent, no others(n=335)Lone parent, others(n=163)Couple family withchildren, no others (n=577)Couple family withchildren, others (n=164)75.5 9.3 11.6 0.9 2.7 100.024.5 62.6 1.8 8.0 3.1 100.08.0 3.1 79.9 8.7 0.4 100.03.7 7.3 23.8 64.6 0.6 100.0Non-parent carer (n=73) 1.4 2.7 4.1 1.4 90.4 100.0All family types (n=1,312) 26.4 12.6 41.5 13.2 6.3 100.0Number of respondents 346 165 545 173 83 1,312Table 15: Changes in family type of the child between waves 1 and 3, for respondents interviewed at both waves (per cent)Family type in wave 3Family type in wave 1Loneprimarycarer,no othersLoneprimarycarer,othersCouplefamily,no othersCouplefamily,othersNon-parentcarerTotalLone parent, no others(n=375)Lone parent, others(n=166)Couple family withchildren, no others (n=591)Couple family withchildren, others (n=139)61.1 13.1 18.4 4.0 3.5 100.030.1 48.8 6.0 10.8 4.2 100.011.3 4.4 72.9 10.2 1.2 100.05.8 11.5 33.8 47.5 1.4 100.0Non-parent carer (n=62) 3.2 1.6 3.2 1.6 90.3 100.0All family types (n=1,333) 26.7 13.0 41.9 12.0 6.4 100.0Number of respondents 356 173 559 160 85 1,333Table 14 summarises changes in the family type of studychildren from wave 2 to wave 3. Of the children who livedin a lone-parent household at wave 2 (with or withoutother adults present), by wave 3 around 12 per cent livedin a couple household, and about 11 per cent of childrenwho lived in a couple family household at wave 2 livedwith a single parent by wave 3 10 .The probability of the child living with a non-parent carerby the wave 3 interview was higher for children living inlone-parent families at wave 2 (2.8 per cent for all loneparenthouseholds compared to 0.4 per cent of all couplehouseholds). However this applied only to a small numberof cases, regardless of family type.10 In most cases, this is due to the primary carer changing their partnership status, but in a very small number of cases (less than 5 per cent of the totalnumber of study children) the change in the household type is due to the child having a new primary carer at wave 3.28 Footprints in Time: The Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children | Key Summary Report from Wave 3
If we examine the changes in family type betweenwaves 1 and 3 (Table 15), as might be expected there ismore variability in family types in the medium term thanin the short term. The lone-parent family type is the leastlikely to persist, with more than 20 per cent of children wholived in such families in wave 1 living in couple families bywave 3. It is interesting to note that, while having anotheradult (not partner) in the household has a relatively highlikelihood of persisting over two years, the likelihood of itpersisting over three years is considerably less.Table 16 reports the average number of children in thehousehold, by age group and level of relative isolation.A typical household in the study contains 3 children lessthan 16 years of age. The families tend to be quite young.On average, there were 1.24 children per family under5 years of age, 1.14 children aged 5 to 9 years and 0.6children aged 10 years or older. The number of children inthe household tends to increase with relative isolation.About 9 per cent of families had had a new baby in thepast year. This was more prevalent among families withchildren in the B cohort and less prevalent in highly orextremely isolated areas.The children were more likely to be the only child inthe household if they were in the B cohort (18 per centas opposed to 13 per cent in K cohort), as shown inTable 17. There was, however, no discernible patternin the children’s position in the family across levels ofrelative isolation.Table 16: Number of children in household, by age group and LORILORIAge group of childrenNone (urban) Low ModerateHigh orextremeAll locations0–4 years old 1.22 1.23 1.32 1.27 1.245–9 years old 1.03 1.19 1.13 1.21 1.1410–15 years old 0.47 0.64 0.59 0.76 0.60All age groups 2.73 3.06 3.04 3.25 2.99Number of respondents 376 698 188 142 1,404Table 17: Position of study child among other children in the household, by cohort, per centPosition of childin familyCohortBaby Child Both cohortsOnly child 18.2 12.7 15.9Youngest/equal youngest 46.1 27.8 38.4Oldest/equal oldest 12.8 24.0 17.5Middle 22.9 35.5 28.2Footprints in Time: The Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children | Key Summary Report from Wave 329
Page 2 and 3: The Footprints in Time team acknowl
Page 5 and 6: ContentsForeword 6Introduction 7Imp
Page 7 and 8: Culture and community 53Neighbourho
Page 9 and 10: IntroductionFootprints in Time is t
Page 11 and 12: AANNUAL UPDATEIt’s a child’s li
Page 13 and 14: Table 2: Type of school attended by
Page 15 and 16: Figure 4: Average “Who Am I?” s
Page 17: Table 5: Persistence of concerns ab
Page 22: Dental healthAs they are growing up
Page 26 and 27: Table10: Percentage of children doi
Page 28 and 29: Table 12: Percentage of children do
Page 32 and 33: Parents living elsewhereGeneral que
Page 34 and 35: Primary carers of children who did
Page 36 and 37: Figure 14: Most common reasons for
Page 38 and 39: HomelessnessOn any given day, nearl
Page 40 and 41: For 77.0 per cent of respondents th
Page 42 and 43: Jobless and two-earner familiesIf w
Page 44 and 45: Income and financeThe Footprints in
Page 46 and 47: Income managementIn all three waves
Page 48 and 49: Table 33: Family money situation in
Page 50 and 51: Primary carer health and wellbeingE
Page 52 and 53: Parental warmth and disciplineIn wa
Page 54 and 55: Questions about a list of major lif
Page 56 and 57: Table 40 shows the relative distrib
Page 58 and 59: in areas of low or moderate isolati
Page 60 and 61: It is also important to consider th
Page 62 and 63: The degree of trust respondents had
Page 64 and 65: Parent and child directed activitie
Page 66 and 67: Table 52: Level of television viewi
Page 68 and 69: With the exception of storytelling,
Page 70 and 71: Children in areas of high or extrem
Page 72 and 73: Nevertheless, cards was the form of
Page 74 and 75: Social and emotional development:In
Page 76 and 77: The prosocial scores were significa
Page 78 and 79: In wave 3, teacher-based SDQ scores
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English language acquisition: relat
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Using the MacArthur Bates vocabular
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Mothers’ educational aspirations
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curriculum, stable schooling (only
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Appendix ABackground to the studyCo
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Other participant interviewsIn addi
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Table 71: Percentage of wave 1 resp
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Access to the dataThe dataset used
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ReferencesAustralian Bureau of Stat
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