Technical Report - Donegal Traveller's Project

All Ireland Traveller Health StudyUse of a seatbelt varies. From the HBSC SC 5-6 9-year-olds, 86.8% always use a seatbelt when they sit ina car, compared with 84.9% of ROI but only 65.6% of NI 9-year-old Travellers. Physical activity is shownin Figure 14. The NI children appear to be less active than ROI and HBSC children, though the numbersin NI are small. From the NLSC/GUI 9-year-olds, of all children surveyed, only 3% were not physicallyactive for at least one hour on one day of the week, compared with a similar proportion in ROI Travellers(3.4%). Again, substantially more NI AITHS 9-year-olds were not physically active (6.8%).Figure 14: Percentage of 9-year-old children who are physically active for a least an hour aday, by number of days of activity per week6050% of 9-year-old children4030201004-6 days7 days 4-6 days 7 days 4-6 days 7 days 4-6 days 7 daysROI Travellers NI Travellers HBSC SC 5-6 children HBSC all childrenFewer 9-year-olds children in the HBSC SC 5-6 group report eating fruit and vegetables, than do parentsof 9-year-olds in the AITHS; only 22.8% of HBSC SC 5-6 9-year-old report eating fruit more than oncea day, and fewer again (15.9%) report eating vegetables more than once a day. 34.3% of ROI Traveller9-year-olds and 7.7% of NI Traveller 9-year-olds eat sweets once or more a day, compared with 25.5% ofHBSC 9-year-olds in SC 5-6, 23.3% of ROI Traveller 9-year-olds and 12.4% of NI Traveller 9-year-olds drinksugary, fizzy drinks once or more a day, compared with 17.1% of HBSC 9-year-old in SC 5-6. 5% of 9-year-olds in the NLSC/GUI lowest income group did not have breakfast regularly, compared with 10.3%of ROI and 19.3% of NI 9-year-olds, who had a weekday breakfast 2 or less days a week.Of the NLSC/GUI 9-year-olds, 89% had a computer in their home. This compares with 22.9% of ROI and18.5% of NI Traveller children.200