Study title
BOOST2018: The Ground-Breaking Study of Student Life, 2015-2020: Secure Access
Creator
Study number / PID
8877 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-8877-2 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Abstract
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BOOST2018: The Ground-Breaking Study of Student Life, 2015-2019: Secure Access is a 13 wave longitudinal survey of a cohort of undergraduate students at one UK university. The data were collected over three years, from October 2015 to June 2018, using online surveys and laboratory tasks. The data are linked to administrative data on demographic characteristics, attendance at lectures and classes, and academic performance. The purpose of the study is to understand the factors determining socio-economic gaps in outcomes from Higher Education, by collecting data on expectations, preferences, access to information, and students' behaviour.
A further online 'Life After University' (wave 14) survey was fielded in 2020 to enable the labour market and subsequent education outcomes of participants in the original BOOST2018 study to be observed after they had completed their undergraduate degrees. Due to the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic in the spring of 2020, a battery of questions on health-related behaviours and expectations was also included.Main Topics:
Higher Education; Subjective expectations; Academic performance; Time use; Cognitive ability; Non-cognitive traits; Labour Economics; Education outcomes.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
30/09/2015 - 28/04/2019
Country
Time dimension
Analysis unit
Universe
Participating sample (1,997 students) enrolled from population of 2,621 undergraduate students at one UK university who: (i) Enrolled on a Bachelor's course in October 2015; and (ii) had no previous experience of Higher Education, 2015-2019. For wave 14, the sample frame was the subset of the BOOST2018 eligible population who (i) remained at the same university until at least October 2017 and (ii) had either given consent for the BOOST2018 team to contact them for further studies or had given the university’s Alumni team consent to contact them for research purposes.
Sampling procedure
Kind of data
Data collection mode
Funding information
Grant number
ES/M008622/1 and ES/S012486
Access
Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
2021
Terms of data access
The Data Collection is available to users registered with the UK Data Service.
Commercial use is not permitted.
Use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. Registered users must apply for access via a Secure Access application.
Registered users must complete the Safe Researcher Training course.
Registered users must be based in the UK when accessing data.
The Data Collection must be accessed via a secure connection method in a safe environment approved by the UK Data Service.