Our Future: Waves 1-3, 2013-2015: Safe Room Access

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The Department for Education (DfE) commissioned the Our Future study (also known as the Second Longitudinal Study of Young People in England (LSYPE2)) at the beginning of 2013. This is one of the largest and most challenging studies of young people ever commissioned and aims to build upon the Next Steps study (LSYPE1), which began in 2004, following young people from the age of 13/14 onwards (Next Steps is held at the UK Data Archive under SN 5545 (End User Licence) and SN 7104 (Secure Access)). The purposes of Our Future are:to follow a sample of young people through the final years of compulsory education; through their transition from compulsory education to other forms of education, training employment, and other activitiesto collect information about their career paths and about the factors affecting them; andto provide a strategic evidence base about the lives and experiences of young peopleIt is intended that Our Future will track a sample of over 13,000 young people from the age of 13/14 annually through to the age of 20 (seven waves). The study currently includes data from Wave 1 to 3 of Our Future. Face-to-face interviews with both the young people and their parents were conducted between April and September 2013 when the young people were 13/14 (in school Year 9) for Wave 1, between April and September 2014 when the young people were 14/15 (in Year 10) for Wave 2 and between April and September 2015 when the young people were 15/16 (in Year 11) for Wave 3. Besides the Safe Room Access version, a Secure Access version (SN 7838) is available. For the second edition (March 2018), data and documentation for Waves 2 and 3 were added to the study. Also included is a NPD linked data file containing linked pupil-level KS2 results and two datasets to support analysis with missing data for KS2 attainment for pupils who attended boycott schools in 2010. Further information is available in the User Guide.

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The Our Future survey covers a wide range of topics from the main parent, second parent and young person interviews, including:the young person's family backgroundparental socio-economic statuspersonal characteristicsattitudes, experiences and behavioursparental employmentincome and family environment as well as local deprivationthe school(s) the young person attends/has attendedthe young person's future plansThe Safe Room Access version includes a general survey data file that has similar variables to the End User Licence dataset, plus the majority of sensitive derived, sample, geodemographic and survey variables excluded from the End User Licence file. Some of the most sensitive variables remain anonymised in this file. This file is accompanied by three files of National Pupil Database (NPD) data, which exclude all sensitive variables:school-level census data about the school the young person attended, from 2006, 2010 and 2013, i.e. the years they completed Key Stage (KS) 1, KS2 and KS3; this also includes Ofsted ratings and geodemographic datapupil-level data about the young person's KS1 attainment, from 2006school-level data about the KS1 and KS4 levels of attainment in the school the young person attended, from 2006 and 2013, respectivelyIn addition, the Safe Room Access version also includes four datasets containing the most sensitive survey and geodemographic variables, covering:detailed characteristicsincomehealthcareThe survey data files in the Safe Room Access version include the detailed geographical variables Local Authority Districts and Super Output Areas (Lower Layer). In addition, the NPD files also include Parliamentary Constituencies and Wards (Census Area Statistics). The above data files are also included in the Secure Access version of Our Future (SN 7838). The Safe Room Access version also includes an additional data file not available elsewhere: a pupil-level NPD file, containing particularly sensitive information about the young person such as their ethnicity, free school meal status and Special Educational Needs status.

Multi-stage stratified random sample

See documentation for further details.

Face-to-face interview

Self-administered questionnaire

Educational measurements and tests

Compilation/Synthesis

NPD data are collected from a range of sources including schools, Local Authorities and awarding bodies.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-7813-3
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=d460f573ffefe951b77a902399568d0918f7c13852291c8287e6653835e5e7b5
Provenance
Creator Kantar Public; Department for Education
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 2015
Funding Reference Department for Education
Rights <a href="https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/re-using-public-sector-information/uk-government-licensing-framework/crown-copyright/" target="_blank">© Crown copyright</a>. The use of these data is subject to the <a href="https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/app/uploads/cd137-enduserlicence.pdf" target="_blank">UK Data Service End User Licence Agreement</a>. Additional restrictions may also apply.; <p>The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the <a href="https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/app/uploads/cd137-enduserlicence.pdf" target="_blank">End User Licence Agreement</a>.</p><p>Commercial use is not permitted.</p><p>Use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. Users must apply for access via a Secure Access application.</p><p>Approved users must complete specialist training.</p><p>The Data Collection can only be accessed via the Safe Room at the UK Data Archive.</p><p>Additional conditions of use apply:</p><p>The Education (Individual Pupil Information) (Prescribed Persons) (England) Regulations 1999 was amended in 2013 to broaden the sharing of pupil data from persons <i>‘conducting research into the educational achievement of pupils’</i> to <i>‘persons who, for the purpose of promoting the education or well-being of children in England are conducting research or analysis, producing statistics, or providing information, advice or guidance, and who require individual pupil information for that purpose’</i>.</p>
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