The Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health: 1973-78 cohort ('Young') Survey 5, Child data, 2009

This study is part of the fifth survey of the 1973-78 cohort. ALSWH began collecting information from the cohort when they were young women (aged 18-23 in 1996) in the early stages of transition from late adolescence to full adulthood. Over time most of this group have moved into the workforce, entered adult relationships, and many have become mothers. This survey collected all dates of child birth up to the date of the survey, with twins being recorded twice. The mothers were asked for each birth as well as complications and conditions for each birth. These birth data could not easily be added to the main survey data, since there may be zero, one, two or more sets of child information depending on the number of births, therefore this extra child data set was created.