This paper provides a brief summary of some key descriptive findings about child
grants from the first two waves of the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS). Wave 1
was conducted in 2008 and Wave 2 in 2010/11. The paper has two main purposes – to
assess the quality of the NIDS data on child grants and to stimulate discussion of these
initial findings with the aim of encouraging more detailed analytical work using the
NIDS data.