Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth, 2015 cohort (Version 7.0)

In 2015 a nationally representative sample of about 14,500 15 year-old students was selected to participate in the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). This group of young people became the sixth cohort of the LSAY program (LSAY Y15). As part of PISA, assessments in mathematical literacy, reading literacy and scientific literacy were administered to schools to provide information on student achievement. Students also completed a background questionnaire about themselves, their families, their views on a range of science-related issues, the environment, educational and vocational expectations, attitudes to school and learning, attitudes towards information and communications technology, and their habits and life in and outside of school. In 2016, members of the Y15 cohort were contacted for the first of their annual LSAY interviews. The questionnaire for their 2016 interviews included questions about their activities during the last 12 months, school, post-school study, engagement in education, career aspirations and decision-making, employment, job satisfaction, job search experiences, income, soft skills, personality, and wellbeing. From 2016, respondents were given the option to complete their interviews by telephone or online. Response rates for the 2016 interviews were lower than expected due to a high rate of missing or unusable contact details provided at the time of PISA. To address this, recruitment of a top-up sample of Year 12 students was conducted in 2017 to ensure that future waves of the survey remain representative of the 15-year-old population in 2015. See Notes (in the Social Science and Humanities section of Metadata) for version details about this dataset.

2015年，约14,500名具有全国代表性的15岁学生被选中参与经济合作与发展组织（OECD）的国际学生评估项目（PISA）。这群青年构成了LSAY项目（LSAY Y15）的第六批参与者。作为PISA的一部分，对学校进行了数学素养、阅读素养和科学素养的评估，以提供有关学生学业成绩的信息。学生还完成了一份关于自身、家庭、对一系列科学相关问题的看法、环境、教育及职业期望、对学校及学习的态度、对信息及通信技术的态度，以及他们在校内外的习惯和生活的背景问卷。2016年，Y15批次的成员被联系进行首次年度LSAY访谈。2016年访谈的问卷包含关于他们过去12个月的活动、学校、毕业后学习、教育参与、职业抱负及决策、就业、工作满意度、求职经历、收入、软技能、个性以及福祉等方面的问题。从2016年开始，受访者可以选择通过电话或在线完成他们的访谈。由于在PISA期间提供的联系详情缺失或无法使用率较高，2016年访谈的回复率低于预期。为解决这一问题，2017年对12年级学生进行了补充样本的招募，以确保未来调查波次的代表性持续反映2015年15岁人群的状况。有关此数据集的版本详细信息，请参阅注释（在元数据的社会科学和人文部分）。