ACTGHS school participation, children

Commentary

Respondents to the ACT General Health Survey aged 5-17 years were significantly more likely to report that they looked forward to going to school every day (36.2%) and most days (44.5%) than some days (14.9%) and never (4.4%). There was no significant difference between males and females in any of the school participation categories in 2021.

Question introduced in 2020.

For the purpose of reporting the ACT General Health Survey data on HealthStats, if the 95% confidence intervals of the estimates do not overlap, they are considered to be significantly different.

Note: The indicator shows self-reported data collected through Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI). Estimates were weighted to adjust for differences in the probability of selection among respondents and were benchmarked to the estimated residential population using the latest available Australian Bureau of Statistics population estimates.

Responses for children aged 5-15 years were provided by the parent/carer who knows the most about the child's health. Persons includes respondents who identified as male, female, other and those who refused to answer and may not always add to the sum of male and female.

The following estimates have a relative standard error between 25% and 50% and should be used with caution:

• 2020: males and females who reported that they never look forward to school
• 2021: females who reported that they never look forward to school.

Statistically significant differences are difficult to detect for smaller jurisdictions such as the Australian Capital Territory. Sometimes, even large apparent differences may not be statistically significant. This is particularly the case in breakdowns of small populations because the small sample size means that there is not enough power to identify even large differences as statistically significant.

Chart

Proportion of children aged 5 to 17 years who look forward to school every day, most days, some days and never, ACT General Health Survey, 2020-2021

Data

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Codes and sources

Q. How safe or unsafe do you feel walking in your local area alone after dark?

Very safe
Safe
Neither safe or unsafe
Unsafe
Very unsafe
Never alone in this situation
Don't know
Refused

Never alone, don't know and refused responses were excluded from analysis.

A copy of the ACT General Health Survey questionnaires can be found in Data collections.