Guide to Longitudinal Study of Young People in England
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ESDS Longitudinal provides:
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a web-based download service
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specialist user support
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training and workshops
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a range of value-added data enhancements for a number of key UK
longitudinal data collections, including the Longitudinal Study of Young People
in England (LSYPE)
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LSYPE, also known as Next
Steps, commissioned by the former Department for Education and Skills (DfES) and now managed by the
Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), is a
major innovative panel study of young people which brings together data from a
number of different sources, including both annual interviews with young people
and their parents and administrative sources.
The main role of the study is to identify, and enable analysis and understanding
of, the key factors affecting young people's progress in transition from the
later years of compulsory education, through any subsequent education or
training, to entry into the labour market or other outcomes. Data from the
study will be used, among other things, to monitor the progress of the cohort
group, evaluate the success or otherwise of policy aimed at this group and
provide an evidence base for further policy development. Sample boosts took
place for deprivation factors and for ethnicity.
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The survey was commissioned with BMRB Social Research as the lead contractor, in
consortium with GfK NOP and Ipsos MORI. The Joint Centre for Longitudinal
Research (JCLR) partners - the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) and the
National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) - were commissioned by the DCSF to
develop the research design.
Users registered with the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) have access
to the LSYPE datasets via the instant download service.
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How to register with ESDS:
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LSYPE data:
LSYPE - ESDS data holdings and future developments
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Data from Wave 3 of the study were added to the two waves already made available via ESDS
in April 2008. For Wave 4 and going forward, the depositors aim to
deposit an initial dataset for each wave within 12 months
of the end of the fieldwork.
The data have been linked to administrative data held on the National Pupil
Database (NPD), a pupil-level database which matches pupil and school
characteristic data to pupil-level attainment. From October 2008, a selection of
variables extracted from this database, covering GCSEs gained and grades, and Key Stage
test scores for LSYPE respondents, have been made available, alongside a serial number
variable for linkage.
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Main topics
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The LSYPE questionnaire covers:
- household and demographic information
- languages spoken in the home
- attitudes to the young person's school and involvement in education
- extra-curricular classes
- year 10 subject choices
- special educational needs
- parental expectations and aspirations
- family activities
- parental relationship with young person and contact with services (self-completion)
- reasons young person does not live with natural parents
- household responsibilities and resources (self-completion)
- risk factors (absences, truancy, police contact, bullying) (self-completion)
- individual parent questions
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LSYPE resources
There are a number of LSYPE resources on the web.
- LSYPE at ESDS Longitudinal:
- ESDS Longitudinal data mailing list:
- DfES scoping study and development work report:
- DfES report on Ethnicity and Education: The Evidence on Minority Ethnic Pupils
aged 5-16:
- Longitudinal Studies for Education Reports: European and North American
Examples:
- 'Next Steps' news for members (including some results):
- 'Next Steps' respondent web site:
Recently published research:
- Minority Ethnic Pupils in the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England:
- The Characteristics of High Attainers (Internet Only):
- The Prevalence of Multiple Deprivation for Children in the UK:
LSYPE teaching dataset
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An LSYPE sampler dataset has been created which serves as an introduction to the main
data: .
The dataset is in rectangular format and contains 269 of the most commonly-used variables in
the main LSYPE Wave 1 data and can be used as a teaching aid and also as an introduction for new and
potential users of the main data. Variable names on the dataset are the same as those on the original LSYPE
dataset, held under .
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User documentation
ESDS user documentation for LSYPE can be downloaded from the LSYPE catalogue
record page:
www.esds.ac.uk/longitudinal longitudinal@esds.ac.uk
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