Technical Report - Donegal Traveller's Project

Health Survey FindingsFigure 12: Number of women who report having breastfed any child, of the women who havehad a child, in the AITHS and SLAN studies.605040% of women3020100All TravellersSLAN 07 GMSAll SLAN 07All TravellersSLAN 07 GMSAll SLAN 07All TravellersSLAN 07 GMSAll SLAN 07All TravellersSLAN 07 GMSAll SLAN 07Under 30 30 to 44 45 to 64 65 and overIn total, 90.3% of ROI and 97.3% of NI Travellers reported that their child did not have an ongoingchronic 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 workersalso reported no long-term illness. Asthma was the commonest reported chronic health condition inTraveller 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 populationreported 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 dataascertainment in the HBSC study must be borne in mind. In the HBSC, data were collected from thechildren themselves, not their parents or guardians, as in the AITHS.195