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Scottish School Leavers’ Survey

Scottish School Leavers’ Survey. A brief overview by Barry Stalker. Contents. - Background. - Methodology. - Main advantages of the study. - Main areas covered. - Important SE funded series of surveys going back to the 1970s.

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Scottish School Leavers’ Survey

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  1. Scottish School Leavers’ Survey A brief overviewby Barry Stalker

  2. Contents - Background - Methodology - Main advantages of the study - Main areas covered

  3. - Important SE funded series of surveys going back to the 1970s. - Longitudinal research among cohorts of young people from leaving compulsory education in S4 to age 23-24. Background to study - Provides a unique perspective on issues of young people’s transitions through education, employment and training in Scotland for government, for provider agencies, and for the research community. - Management of study transferred to ED from ETLLD in June 2003. - Outputs include report from each survey sweep, dataset of each sweep stored in ESRC archive and ‘special studies’ analysing datasets.

  4. - Sample of 20% of S4 school pupils in Scotland by birth date, using SQA records, every 3 years. - Postal self-completion questionnaire. Methodology - Cohort of young people in S4 in June, first surveyed in Spring the following year (16-17 years) and followed up at ages 18-19, 21-22, 23-24 years). - Follow up telephone ‘tracing’ for non-respondents and interview. - ‘Stable contact’ details collected at sweep 1 as back up in subsequent sweeps.

  5. SSLS activity Cohort Finish S4 in Sw1 Sw2 Sw3 SwX Sw4 June 16/17 18/19 21/22 22/23 23/240 19921995 1 1994 19951997 2 1996 199719992004 3 19981999200120042006 4 20022003200520082010 5 2005 2006200820112013

  6. Main advantages of the study - Longitudinal: - Comparison within and between Cohorts. - Track transitions over time. - Analysis – residual heterogeneity, causality. - Data useful for a number of policy interests (as well as stakeholders). - History: long time running, catalogue of data.

  7. Main areas covered - ED: - School - S4, S5, S6. - ETLLD: - Further Education - Higher Education - Government training programmes - Employment - Young People Not in Education Employment or Training (NEET)

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