Understanding Society: Linked Education Administrative Datasets (Scottish Education Data), Scotland, 2007-2018: Secure Access

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Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Understanding Society (UK Household Longitudinal Study), which began in 2009, is conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex, and the survey research organisations Kantar Public and NatCen. It builds on and incorporates, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which began in 1991.

The Understanding Society: Linked Education Administrative Datasets (Scottish Education Data), Scotland, 2007-2018: Secure Access study contains six files extracted from Sottish Education Data held by the Scottish Government. These can be linked (within the Secure Access service) to Understanding Society participants using the cross-wave personal identifier (variable pidp). The Scottish Education Data files include information on pupil background, attainment, destination of leavers, student support, school attendance, absences and exclusions for all individuals with a valid consent to education linkage collected in Waves 1 and 4 of Understanding Society. This includes consents collected from parents of children aged 4-15 and of the young adults aged 16-43 and born in 1981 or later. The files include School Pupil Census data collected in September from pupils in state schools. Attainment data relates to senior phase attainment covering SQA qualifications. See documentation for further details. Related UK Data Archive studiesThe equivalent study to this one that covers England is available in SN 7642. This study is frequently linked through the pidp variable to one of the main Understanding Society datasets: SN 6614 (End User Licence), SN 6931 (Special Licence) or SN 6676 (Secure Access). A Special Licence dataset containing School Codes for the main Understanding Society study (SN 7182) is also available. Further details can be found on the Understanding Society series webpage.

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Topics covered in the data files include educational attainment scores, test/examination results, and school absences and exclusions, with a linking variable for matching with Understanding Society data as noted in the Abstract section above. Individual school codes are included in the data. Demographic information such as ethnic groups, languages spoken at home, deprivation indices, eligibility for free school meals and special educational needs is included in the School Pupil Census file ('pupils_restricted'). See documentation for further details.

Multi-stage stratified random sample

Two-stage stratified systematic sample - see documentation for details

Compilation/Synthesis

Identifier
DOI http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-8844-1
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=b281907a7884eb15fcd2ec6f0090f895cb586fa6fc2bb456799b2a7f36e12969
Provenance
Creator University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research; Education Scotland
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 2021
Funding Reference Economic and Social Research Council; Department of Work and Pensions; Department for Education; Department for Transport; Department for Culture, Media and Sport; Department for Community and Local Government; Department of Health; Scottish Government; Welsh Assembly Government; Northern Ireland Executive; Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Food Standards Agency
Rights Copyright Economic and Social Research Council; <p>The Data Collection is available to users registered with the UK Data Service.</p><p>Commercial use is not permitted.</p><p>Use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. Registered users must apply for access via a Secure Access application.</p><p>Registered users must complete the Safe Researcher Training course.</p><p>Registered users must be based in the UK when accessing data.</p><p>The Data Collection must be accessed via a secure connection method in a safe environment approved by the UK Data Service.</p>
OpenAccess true
Representation
Language English
Resource Type Numeric
Discipline Social Sciences
Spatial Coverage Scotland