The name is absent

Table A1.1b shows that approximately nineteen per cent of the mothers and twenty-nine per cent
of the fathers fall in the professional categories. The proportion of mothers who are skilled (non-
manual or manual) was twenty-five per cent; for the father this proportion was quite similar
(35.4 %). Twenty-one per cent of the mothers but only five per cent of the fathers were semi
skilled or unskilled. Also, a third of the mothers, but only seven per cent of the fathers were
unemployed or not working. For eighteen per cent there was no information about the SES
status of the father available.

Table 1.1b: Selected characteristics of children who have valid cognitive data in Year 5 (n = 2556)
Some figures do not include non-response to questions therefore the total is not always 2,556 (100 %)______

Table A1.1c shows the combined family SES measure. Nineteen per cent of the children had
been eligible for free school meals (FSM) in Year 5 (or at an earlier time point, if no information
was available for Year 5), thirty-seven per cent of the children grow up in families whose annual
salary was £15.000 or less.

An index of multiple disadvantage⁹ was created in the original EPPE research. Table A1.1c
indicates that twenty-two per cent of the sample had no disadvantage. On the other hand, six
per cent of the children were highly disadvantaged with 5 or more disadvantages.

⁹ The index combines poor child, family and HLE characteristics associated individually with
lower attainment.

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