This survey is the first wave of the Elfe study. It was carried out by trained midwifes shortly after birth in the selected maternity wards. The survey is composed by a face-to-face questionnaire with the child’s mother, data extracted from medical records and two self-administered questionnaires (mother / father). The main objective is to obtain information about the pregnancy development and ...
Elfe data must be accessible to all research teams, public and private, French or foreign. All variables will not be available at the same time for confidentiality reasons. Requests for data access take place through the PANDORA platform, where the choice of variables is made and by uploading all the necessary information relating to the research project that required Elfe data. ...
The list of all variables by survey (recherche par enquete) and by subject (recherche par thème) is available here.
Toutes les variables construites cherchent à comprendre et identifier l’environnement de l’enfant ELFE. C’est pour cela qu’on s’intéresse aux caractéristiques du ménage plutôt que aux membres du ménage individuellement. Par simplicité, toutes les réponses “refuse de répondre” sont traitées comme données manquantes.
We strongly invite you to share with us the codes of new variables that you created since it could be very useful for the scientific community. To do so, you must fill in the following document and send it to one of our contacts. Document
In this section you find explanations on Elfe data which aim to make easier the understanding of the data sets for starters.
Pirus C., Bois C., Dufourg M.-N., Lanoë J.-L., Vandentorren S., Leridon H. and the Elfe team. «Constructing a Cohort: Experience with the French Elfe Project », Population 65(4) : 637-670, 2010. Read the article. Charles M.-A., Leridon H., Dargent P., Geay B. and the Elfe team. «Tracking the lives of 20,000 children. Launch of the Elfe child cohort study», Population et Sociétés n° ...
Elfe site
If you have any comments on the web, you want to be included on the researchers list or for any contribution to the set of new created variables, contact: Lidia Panico: lidia.panico@ined.fr Laurent Toulemon: toulemon@ined.fr Giulia Ferrari: giulia.ferrari@ined.fr Moreover, you can contact the ELFE team.
Events: Conferences: CCErinKelly Seminars: David-Nicholas_CC_bynd Seminars: _DSC0192 _Putneypics Documentation: Bibliography: Ginny_CC_bysa Cauntry Sheets: Gabriel-Cabral Around the project: Brett-DAvies
