Young Adults' Choice of Education and Profession, 1990

The project was the Norwegian part of a comparison of 16-20 year old people education and work choices in the Nordic countries. The projects aim was to get new knowledge about young peoples choices of education in the last year of secondary school, the plans for the future when they were in the secondary school and the realisation of the choice 1-2 years after they had finished secondary school. In 1987 a questionnaire was given to 620 young people in 25 9th grades in ten schools in the Bergen area. The investigation was repeated in 1988 and 1989. In 1989 there were also carried through interviews with ca. 80 pupils who did not to as the most common to start with high school after secondary school. A follow-up questionnaire was sent out in 1990 to 520 pupils to map out what they did to years after they finished 9th grade.