COVID Social Mobility and Opportunities Study: Wave 1, 2021-2022

<div class="x_x_x_x_OutlineElement x_x_x_x_Ltr x_x_x_x_SCXW16970617 x_x_x_x_BCX0"> <p>The COVID Social Mobility and Opportunities Study (COSMO) is the first wave of a planned longitudinal cohort study, a collaboration between UCL Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities (CEPEO), the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS), and the Sutton Trust. The overarching aim of COSMO is to provide a representative data resource to support research into how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the life chances of pupils with different characteristics, in terms of short-term effects on educational attainment, and long-term educational and career outcomes. </p> <p>The topics covered by COSMO include, but are not limited to, young people's education experiences during the pandemic, cancelled assessments and education and career aspirations. They have also been asked for consent for linking their survey data to their administrative data held by organisations such as the UK Department for Education (DfE). Linked data is planned to be made available to researchers through the ONS Secure Research Service.</p> <p>Young people who were in Year 11 in the 2020-2021 academic year were drawn as a clustered and stratified random sample from the National Pupil Database held by the DfE, as well as from a separate sample of independent schools from DfE's Get Information about Schools database. The parents/guardians of the sampled young people were also invited to take part in COSMO. Data from parents/guardians complement the data collected from young people.</p> <p class="x_x_x_x_Paragraph x_x_x_x_SCXW16970617 x_x_x_x_BCX0"></p> <p>Data collection in Wave 1 was carried out between September 2021 and April 2022. Young people and parents/guardians were first invited to a web survey. In addition to receiving online reminders, some non-respondents were followed up via face-to-face visits over the winter and throughout spring.</p><p>Further information about the study may be found on the <a title="COVID Social Mobility and Opportunities Study (COSMO)" href="https://cosmostudy.uk/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">COVID Social Mobility and Opportunities Study (COSMO)</a> webpage.<br></p><p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Latest edition information</span></p> <p>For the second edition (January 2023), a new version (1.1) of the young person data file was deposited. It includes an update to the young person's ethnicity variable and four additional flag variables. The documentation has also been updated accordingly. The updates are explained in the new Data User Guide.</p> </div>