Data & Products
Video Data
All video data and spreadsheet export from parent-report questionnaires will be openly shared on Databrary at the project end. Full videos from exemplar home visits in South Korea and Hong Kong and China are publicly available. Curated clips and excerpts will be shared on the new “BABIESbrary” searchable global library created as part of this project.
All videos that are collected with go through a quality assurance (QA) process in which the BABIES team will ensure that participants meet inclusion criteria and protocol adhered to, such that videos are eligible to be included in the final sample. Videos that don’t pass QA may be reused for other purposes, and as needed, the collection site will be provided additional training.
Videos on this website play best in Google Chrome or Firefox browser, due to video file size.
Natural activities
Data collectors film one hour of natural activity, while mothers and babies go about their day. Videos contain faces and voices on camera. Mothers may go anywhere in their home, play with their babies or not, do chores, work, and bath, feed, or change their child.
Excerpts of everyday activities in Hong Kong:
1-hour natural activity at 20x speed from Global BABIES - Hong Kong:
Full 1-hour natural activity from Global BABIES - Hong Kong:
Full 1-hour natural activity from Global BABIES - South Korea:
Home environment
House walkthrough
Data collectors film the entire home, focusing on capturing child objects like toys, books, feeding items, bathing items, clothes, and sleep areas.
Excerpt video tour of a home in South Korea:
House walkthrough at 12x speed from Global BABIES - South Korea:
Full house walkthrough from Global BABIES - South Korea:
Full house walkthrough from Global BABIES - Hong Kong:
3D rendering
Data collectors use Matterport 3D technology to produce a digital rendering of family’s homes, including measurements of all spaces.
Excerpt from Global BABIES - New York:
Questionnaires
Data collectors orally administer parent-report questionnaires during the home visit. Questionnaires are translated into local languages by each site investigator’s team. Topics covered include:
| Before Visit (over phone) | Demographics Gestational age & child health Home languages Sleep & childcare |
| Home Visit | Vocabulary Motor milestones Division of labor Family routines Household roster Child-rearing values |
| After Visit | Protocol notes Checklist for quality assurance |
Full questionnaire from Global BABIES - Hong Kong:
Language Translations & Cultural Adaptations
Assessing vocabulary of dual language learners
As part of the NIH PLAY Project, a method for addressing gaps in the assessment of dual-language learning infants was developed. The method for developing the vocabulary inventory and product are reported are shared on this Databrary volume.
Website Information
This website is designed to be a transparently shared record of the Global BABIES project. The site is hosted in GitHub and is generated in Quarto using RStudio.
For information about using R Markdown to generate websites, see https://quarto.org/docs/websites/. For formatting information, see https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/markdown-basics.html.
Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.