Longitudinal Study of Young People (LSYPE) data linkage

英格兰青少年纵向研究（LSYPE）于2004年启动，初始样本约为15，700名九年级的青少年，因此年龄为13或14岁。七年来每年都从研究成员那里收集信息，最近一次调查是在2012年进行的，当时个人19或20岁。在研究的前四年，他们的父母也接受了采访。LSYPE由教育部（DfE）资助，他们利用研究中的证据为政策制定提供信息，并帮助改善对年轻人的服务。例如，将强制参加教育和培训的年龄从16岁提高到18岁的决定受到了研究结果的影响。它也被英国和其他地方的学术研究人员广泛使用。研究的主要内容是影响青年人通过学校取得进步并接受进一步或高等教育、培训或工作的因素，以及家庭背景和青年人对学校的愿望和态度如何影响这些因素。LSYPE的优势之一是它与教育部所有公立学校和学生的行政记录-国家学生数据库-相联系。这包括关于每个学校和学生的信息。最重要的是，它提供了年轻人在普通中等教育证书和A级的教育程度的详细情况。其他行政数据集具有研究潜力，包括有关继续教育和高等教育，国家福利和收入，住院和犯罪行为的记录。将现有的LSYPE数据与这些行政记录联系起来，将有助于进一步进行有益的研究。它将提供22/23岁的研究成员的信息，并在未来，而不必进行进一步的调查。然而，没有研究成员的许可，这是不能做的，重要的是他们完全理解计划的内容。第一步将是重新联系研究成员，要求他们允许进行此数据链接，并要求DfE提供他们的联系方式，以便我们继续研究。这将通过向他们张贴传单和同意书，并要求他们归还来完成。下一步将是向持有这些行政记录的政府部门提供同意的研究成员的姓名、性别、出生日期和地址，以便他们能够在记录中找到他们并提取有关他们的数据。一旦我们有了关联的数据，我们将通过创建汇总变量并制作如何使用数据的指南来准备供其他研究人员使用。我们将为对卫生、教育和经济信息感兴趣的研究人员举办单独的讲习班，鼓励使用这些数据。这些数据将被安全地存储，并且只提供给真正的研究人员。DfE还将传递同意的研究成员的联系方式，我们将其存储在安全的地址数据库中。然后，我们可以与研究成员保持联系，并向他们发送基于研究的研究结果摘要。我们希望将来能够对它们进行调查，收集有助于我们了解相关数据的信息，并要求提供未列入行政来源的信息。然而，只有在能够获得额外资金的情况下才能做到这一点。LSYPE已经提供了关于青年人从中学到高等教育或劳动力市场的途径的丰富信息。然而，扩大我们对这些年轻人的了解，将使我们能够了解不同轨迹和家庭背景、危险行为以及态度和愿望的结果。这一点特别重要，因为这一代人出生于1989/1990年，他们正在进入青年期，而此时英国政府仍在努力应对严重的世界经济衰退的后果。

The Longitudinal Study of Young People in England (LSYPE) was launched in 2004 with an initial sample of around 15,700 young people in year nine, and therefore aged 13 or 14. Information has been collected from the study members every year for seven years, and the most recent survey was conducted in 2012 when individuals were 19 or 20. For the first four years of the study their parents were also interviewed. The LSYPE was funded by the Department for Education (DfE) and they have used the evidence from the study to inform policy making and to help improve services for young people. For example, the decision to raise the compulsory participation age in education and training from 16 to 18 was influenced by findings from the study. It has also been widely used by academic researchers in the UK and elsewhere. The main things that have been studied are factors affecting young people's progress through school and into further or higher education, training, or work, and how this is influenced by family background and young people's aspirations and attitudes towards school. One of the strengths of the LSYPE is that it has been linked with the DfE's administrative records of all state schools and pupils - the National Pupil Database. This includes information about each school and pupil. Most importantly, it provides details of the young people's educational attainment at GCSE and A-level. Other administrative datasets have potential for research, including records about further and higher education, state benefits and earnings, hospital admissions and criminal behaviour. Linking existing LSYPE data to these administrative records would enable further useful research. It would provide information on study members at age 22/23, and into the future, without having to conduct further surveys. However, this can't be done without the permission of the study members, and it is important that they understand fully what is planned. The first step will be to re-contact the study members to ask them permission for this data linkage and for the DfE to pass on their contact details so that we can continue the study. This will be done by posting them a leaflet and consent forms, and asking them to return them. The next step will be to provide the government departments, who hold these administrative records, with the name, sex, date of birth and address of study members who agree, in order that they can find them in their records and extract the data about them. Once we have the linked data, we will prepare it for use by other researchers by creating summary variables and producing a guide to how to use the data. We will encourage the use of the data by running separate workshops for researchers interested in health, education and economic information. The data will be stored securely, and only made available to bona-fide researchers. The DfE will also pass on the contact details, of study members who agree, and we will store them in a secure address database. We can then maintain contact with the study members, and send them summaries of research findings based on the study. We hope it will be possible to survey them in the future, both to collect information which would help us to understand the linked data, and to ask for information not included in administrative sources. However, this can only be done if additional funding can be secured. The LSYPE has already provided rich information about young people's pathways through secondary school and into higher education or the labour market. However, extending the information we have about these young people will allow us to understand the outcomes of different trajectories and of family background, risky behaviours, and attitudes and aspirations. This is particularly important as this generation, born in 1989/1990, is entering young adulthood at a time when the British Government is still grappling with the consequences of a severe world recession.