education, family size and mother's age are the 'background variables' that are most strongly related to cognitive development at age five, according to a research team at the University of Bristol. Their study Up to Seven: family background and child development up to age seven, from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, is available at www.dfes.gov.uk/research.
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