Toddlers, Tech and Talk Project Data Deposit, 2022-2024

This project which ran from June 2022 until December 2024 investigated how the home lives of children aged from birth to three years intersect with digital technologies.

The main project aim was to build knowledge about how very young children develop early talk and literacy with digital technologies at home, and how families support their learning and wellbeing with technology.

The research was conduct with families in diverse socio-economic, ethnic and geographic communities across the four UK nations of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

This deposit comprises data from:
1) Project Phase 1 survey, which was completed by parents of very young children aged from birth to 36 months (n=1444). The data is submitted in Excel format, along with a Word document of the survey questions

2) Project Phase 2 interview transcripts with 40 parents of very young children aged from birth to 36 months (10 per UK nation) and 20 with early childhood professionals (5 per UK nation)

Phase 3 comprised 40 in-depth video case studies in families' homes. These data cannot be anonymised so are not deposited.