Summary information

Study title

Scottish Education Time Series Data, 1962, 1970, 1972

Creator

University of Edinburgh, Centre for Educational Sociology

Study number / PID

665 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-665-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

These data enable us to give a nationally-representative picture of the school leaver with Scottish Certificate of Education Higher grade qualifications (SCE H grade) at three points in time - in 1962, 1970 and in 1972. The dataset is constructed from three separate surveys and comprises just under 400 variables. Included is not only raw data, such as, for example, the record of each SCE attempt in each year, but also a large number of variables that have been systematically derived from the raw variables. There are for instance, a series of measures that express the subject curriculum of each school-leaver's course and qualifications in a variety of ways. Other areas which have been covered include family background, school, geographical location and post-school destination.

Main Topics:

Type of school, education district and region of school, post-school destination, individual subject grades at higher level, subject content of course and qualifications. Achievement at ordinary, higher and advanced levels.
Background Variables
Age, sex, date of birth, father's occupation (Registrar General's classification).

EducationVocational education and trainingYouthCompulsory and pre-school educationLabour and employment

Data collection period

01/01/1962 - 01/01/1972

Country

Scotland

Time dimension

Time Series

Analysis unit

Examination results

Pupils

School leavers

Individuals

National

Universe

Scottish school leavers in 1962/3, 1970 and 1972 with Scottish Certificate of Education Higher grade qualifications

Sampling procedure

Total in 1962, random in 1970 and 1972

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Postal survey

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1976

Terms of data access

The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.

Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.

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