The Growing Up in Scotland (GUS) study is funded by the Scottish government and carried out by the Scottish Centre for Social Research. Beginning in April 2005, it has monitored the progress of about 5,000 children aged under a year, and about 3,000 children aged between two and three.
The findings show that since 2005, approximately three in 10 young Scottish children were "income poor" in any one year. It also concludes that a quarter of three- and four-year-olds and a fifth of five- and six-year-olds have lived in persistent poverty for the past five years.
Children were defined as persistently poor if they lived in a low-income household for at least three of the four annual interviews that GUS conducted.
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