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Andy Biggart, Fiona Dobbie, Andy Furlong, Lisa Given and Lyn Jones
The Scottish Centre for Social Research (formerly NatCen Scotland)
November 2005
ISBN 0 7559 2853 9 (Web only publication)
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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements
Summary of Findings
1.1.1 Introduction
1.1.2 Method and Sample
1.1.3 Key findings
Main Activity
Domestic circumstances
The future
Qualifications
The Disadvantaged
1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 The Scottish School Leavers Survey
1.2 The 2005 survey
1.3 This report
2 MAIN ACTIVITY AT 21-22
2.1 Activity status
2.1.1 Comparison with 2003
2.2 Main activity by stage of leaving school
2.3 Main activity by qualification
2.4 Main activity by parental social class
2.5 Education and training courses
2.5.1 Place of study and type of qualification
2.5.2 Type of qualification
2.6 Jobs and training
2.6.1 Occupation and industry
2.6.2 Employment status
2.6.3 Self emplyment
2.6.4 Hours and pay
2.6.5 Finding the job
2.6.6 Training
2.6.7 Part-time work
2.6.8 Attitudes to job
2.7 Career guidance
2.8 Student debt, benefits and overall income
2.9 Key points
3 DOMESTIC CIRCUMSTANCES
3.1 Children
3.2 Living arrangements
3.3 Leaving the parental home
3.4 Items in the home
3.5 Key points
4 THE FUTURE
4.1 Expectations of main activity in one year's time
4.2 Expectations of main activity in four years' time
4.3 Feelings of control over life
4.4 Key points
5 QUALIFICATIONS OF 21-22 YEAR OLDS
5.1 Highest qualification obtained
5.1.1 Qualifications by stage of leaving school
5.1.2 Qualifications by parental social class
5.1.3 Level 3 qualification characteristics
5.1.4 Methods of study
5.1.5 Qualifications across sweeps
5.2 Continuing to study towards a qualification
5.3 Training and qualifications among those in full-time employment
5.4 Key points
6 THE DISADVANTAGED
6.1 Types of disadvantage and labour market entry
6.2 Prevalence of NEET
6.3 Characteristics of NEET
6.4 Unemployment
6.5 Females out of the labour force
6.6 Low skill jobs
6.7 Key points
7 BIBLIOGRAPHY
8 APPENDIX A: TECHNICAL NOTES
8.1 Percentages
8.2 Bases
8.3 Estimating the precision of estimates
8.4 Combining columns of a table
8.5 School type
8.6 Social Class
8.7 Sample size
8.8 Survey non-response

List of tables

Table 1-1 Response figures for the 2005 survey
Table 2-1 Main activity by gender
Table 2-2 Main activity at age 19, Spring 1999, 2001 and 2005
Table 2-3 Change in main activity over two years
Table 2-4 Main activity by stage of leaving school
Table 2-5 Main activity by highest qualification achieved aged 18-19
Table 2-6 Main activity by parent's social class
Table 2-7 Qualification likely to result from current education
Table 2-8 Qualification likely to result by place of study
Table 2-9 Participation in education or training course by parent's social class
Table 2-10 Industry worked in ( SIC) by gender and type of employment
Table 2-11 Occupation by type of employment and gender
Table 2-12 Employment status by gender
Table 2-13 Hours by type of job
Table 2-14 Pay by type of job
Table 2-15 Method of finding job by gender
Table 2-16 Training received by job type and gender
Table 2-17 Attitudes towards job by gender
Table 2-18 Career guidance received
Table 2-19 Amount of student debt
Table 2-20 Benefits by gender
Table 2-21 Weekly income for all respondents
Table 3-1 Respondents who had children by gender
Table 3-2 Children by main activity
Table 3-3 Children by social class of respondent's parents
Table 3-4 Children by truancy
Table 3-5 Living arrangements by gender and children
Table 3-6 Living arrangements by activity status
Table 3-7 When moved from parent's home by gender
Table 3-8 Items in the home, by activity status
Table 4-1 Expected activity in one years' time by gender
Table 4-2 Expected activity in one year's time: 2003 and 2005
Table 4-3 Expected activity in one year's time by gender
Table 4-4 Expected activity in one year's time by activity status
Table 4-5 Expected activity in one year's time by social class of respondents' parents
Table 4-6 Expected activity in one year's time by children
Table 4-7 Expected activity in four years' time by gender
Table 4-8 Expected activity in four years' time by gender
Table 4-9 Expected activity in four years' time by gender
Table 4-10 Expected activity in four years' time by activty status
Table 4-11 Expected activity in four years' time by social class of respondent parents
Table 4-12 Expected activity in four years' time by children
Table 4-13 Feelings of control over life by gender
Table 4-14 Feelings of control over life by activity status
Table 4-15 Feelings of control over life by social class of respondents' parents
Table 4-16 Feelings of control over life by children
Table 5-1 Highest qualification achieved at age 18/19 by gender
Table 5-2 Highest qualification at age 18-19 by stage of Leaving School
Table 5-3 Highest qualification at age 18-19 by parental social class
Table 5-4 Percentage with a Level 3 qualification or above by age 18/19
Table 5-5 Qualification flows between age 16/17 and age 18/19
Table 5-6 Qualification currently being studied
Table 5-7 Qualification currently being studied by Standard Grades results at age 16/17
Table 5-8 Qualification achieved or being currently studied towards
Table 5-9 Type of Training Received training among those currently in full-time work by size of Employer
Table 5-10 Receiving training leading to a recognised qualification among those currently in full-time work
Table 6-1 Indicators of disadvantage, by gender
Table 6-2 Deprivation indicators, by educational participation
Table 6-3 Indicators of disadvantage, by current status
Table 6-4 Prevalence of NEET and continuity between time periods
Table 6-5 Disaggregation of NEET based on current status
Table 6-6 Careers advice received and usefulness of such advice, by NEET status
Table 6-7 Indicators of disadvantage, by experience of unemployment
Table 6-8 Reasons for current unemployment
Table 6-9 Female respondents: Reasons for currently being out of the labour force
Table 6-10 Attitudes towards current job, by skill level

List of figures

Figure 5 1 Percentages of those with selected characteristics who were without a Level 3 qualification or above at age 18/19
Figure 6 1 Young people's educational status at age 19, by region
Figure 6 2 Experience of NEET for groups with various kinds of disadvantage
Figure 6 3 Reasons for being NEET
Figure 6 4 Experience of unemployment by region
Figure 6 5 Indicators of disadvantage: mothers out of the labour force vs other females

The views expressed in the report are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the Scottish Executive or any other organisation(s) by which the author(s) is/are employed.

The Scottish Executive is making this research report available on-line in order to provide access to its contents for those interested in the subject. The Executive commissioned the research but has not exercised editorial control over the report.

This web only report was published in December 2005

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