Summary information
Study title
Scottish Qualified School Leavers Survey, 1970
Creator
University of Edinburgh, Centre for Educational Sociology
Study number / PID
95 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-95-1 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Not available
Abstract
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.
The aim of the survey is to identify factors influencing flows from school to tertiary education.
The Scottish School Leavers Survey has been carried out biennially since 1977, while Qualified School Leavers surveys stretch back to 1962. Since 1984, when a school-year group was first surveyed in addition to the school-leaver group, the Scottish School Leavers Survey has been subsumed within the Scottish Young People's Survey (GN: 33227).
Main Topics:
Reasons for staying on/not staying on at school, reasons for dropping subjects, perceptions/opinions of occupations, ccupational intentions, applications (with reasons for application) to tertiary education. Details of academic achievements (exams passed, grades obtained), degree of parental interest in respondent's education, whether attitudes of respondent and parents coincide. Attitudes to occupations and careers, e.g. 'ideal job' description. Marriage and family-building intentions. Type of employment/education entered by respondent after leaving school (with reasons), subjects taken by university entrants.
Background Variables
Age, sex, marital status (married, engaged, 'going steady', single), number of siblings, type of school attended, place of work. Telephone ownership. Respondent's father: age finished full-time education; occupation; grade; occupational qualifications; employment status.
Respondent's mother: age finished full-time education; occupation.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
01/02/1971 - 01/07/1971
Country
Scotland
Time dimension
Repeated cross-sectional study
Analysis unit
Pupils
School leavers
Individuals
National
Universe
All leavers from Scottish schools in the academic session 1969 - 70, holding at least one pass in the Scottish Certificate of Education at the Higher grade
Sampling procedure
Simple random sample
one in five random by date of birth - subjects selected who were born on days of the month exactly divisible by 5 and on the 28th and 29th February
Kind of data
Not availableData collection mode
Postal survey
Access
Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
1974
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.
Related publications
- Jones, C. and McPherson, A. (1973) 'Fertile imaginations and contrary findings: a comment on subject specialisation and sexuality', Science Studies
- Jones, C. and Coxon, A. (1976) 'Applications of multidimensional scaling techniques in the analysis of survey data' , London: Wiley.
- McPherson, A. and Jones, C. (1972) 'Implications of non-response to postal surveys for the development of nationally based data on flows out of educational systems', Scottish Educational Studies
- Hutchison, D. (1972) 'Discouraged women', Higher Education Review
- McPherson, A., Jones, C. and Littlejohn, G. (1973) 'Aversion to school teaching as a factor in the choice of science', Science Studies
- Littlejohn, G., McPherson, A. and Jones, C. (1974) 'Predicting science-based study at university', Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A
- Kelly, A. (1976) 'Family background, subject specialisation and occupational recruitment of Scottish university students: some patterns and trends', Higher Education, 177-188
- Hutchison, D. and Littlejohn, G. (1975) 'The impact of social science on flows from school to university', Research in Education
- Flett, U., Jones, C. and McPherson, A. (1972) 'Women entrants to university and college of education', Scottish Educational Studies
- McPherson, A., Jones, C. and Flett, U. (1971) 'After highers', Scottish Educational Studies