Youth Progression in the North-East of England, 1990-2001

The research objectives may be summarized as follows:<br> to identify the aids and obstacles to the successful progression to adult life that affect young people between the ages of 16 and 25 living in the North-East of England, and to put young people at the centre of the research and give them a voice through a programme of personal interviews;<br> to study low achievers and potential drop-outs from national youth surveys by collecting new data on this group of young people who generally do not respond to cohort surveys, and whose absence from the resulting data has unbalanced the conclusions drawn from it;<br> to compare the augmented sample with results obtained by research partners in continental Europe, and evaluate the methodology of direct compensation for survey drop-out and attrition by targeted re-sampling of typical non-respondents;<br> to identify and assess the impact of local, regional and national structures on the life chances of the young people in the survey, and describe the ways in which changes in policy affect their opportunities;<br> to disseminate the results of this research in a way that assures accessibility to non-academic as well as academic users, and to interpret them in a way which will encourage their integration into future initiatives.