Research Evidence
The aim of GUIDE is to provide high quality longitudinal data on children and young people, that can be compared across countries. These data will be open access to bonafide researchers. Access will be provided by a data archive once the data are collected and made ready for sharing.
GUIDE will be an accelerated cohort survey including a sample of new born infants as well as a sample of school age children. Both cohorts will be surveyed using a common questionnaire and data collection methodology at regular intervals until the age of 24 years. The data will be used by a broad community including health, child development, family studies, psychology, sociology, demography, and economics. The cross-culturally comparative results will be of great value to education, child and youth services, and government both locally and across European initiatives and policies.
The World Happiness Report emphasises the importance of GUIDE in collecting comparative longitudinal data. Chapter 3 which focuses on ‘Child and Adolescent Wellbeing’ states:
"In Europe, there is ongoing work to conduct the first cross-national birth cohort survey of child well-being through GUIDE (Growing Up In Digital Europe), supported by the Coordinate project. This project is mobilizing researchers and organizations, fostering coordinated efforts to enhance the harmonization and accessibility of international survey data, specifically focusing on panel survey data for examining the well-being of children and young individuals as they grow up. This initiative will contribute significantly to a key longer-term goal in the field: obtaining more comparable longitudinal data across countries to enable more robust evidence on how to promote child and adolescent well-being."
(Marquez, et al., 2024)
