Summary information

Study title

17-19 and Unemployed on the Isle of Sheppey, 1980

Creator

Wallace, C. D., University of Kent at Canterbury, Faculty of Social Sciences

Study number / PID

4860 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-4860-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

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This small-scale study for the Department of Employment, examined the experience of youth unemployment on the Isle of Sheppey. It drew on extended interviews with unemployed 17-19 year olds.



Main Topics:

School leavers; school - work transition; youth; youth employment; youth unemployment; gender; employment; youth opportunities; working class life; apprenticeships; family; marriage; employers; social attitudes.

Methodology

Data collection period

Not available

Country

England

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

Individuals
Subnational

Universe

Unemployed 17-19 year olds.

Sampling procedure

Purposive selection/case studies

Kind of data

Text

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview

Access

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

2004

Terms of data access

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