Our Future: Waves 1-3, 2013-2015: Safe Room Access

The Department for Education (DfE) commissioned the <i>Our Future</i> study (also known as the <i>Second Longitudinal Study of Young People in England</i> (LSYPE2)) at the beginning of 2013. This is one of the largest and most challenging studies of young people ever commissioned and aims to build upon the <i>Next Steps</i> study (LSYPE1), which began in 2004, following young people from the age of 13/14 onwards (Next Steps is held at the UK Data Archive under SN 5545 (End User Licence) and SN 7104 (Secure Access)).<br> <br> The purposes of Our Future are:<ul><li>to follow a sample of young people through the final years of compulsory education; through their transition from compulsory education to other forms of education, training employment, and other activities</li><li>to collect information about their career paths and about the factors affecting them; and</li><li>to provide a strategic evidence base about the lives and experiences of young people</li></ul>It is intended that Our Future will track a sample of over 13,000 young people from the age of 13/14 annually through to the age of 20 (seven waves).<br> <br> The study currently includes data from Wave 1 to 3 of Our Future. Face-to-face interviews with both the young people and their parents were conducted between April and September 2013 when the young people were 13/14 (in school Year 9) for Wave 1, between April and September 2014 when the young people were 14/15 (in Year 10) for Wave 2 and between April and September 2015 when the young people were 15/16 (in Year 11) for Wave 3.<br> <br> Besides the Safe Room Access version, a Secure Access version (SN 7838) is available.<br> <br> For the second edition (March 2018), data and documentation for Waves 2 and 3 were added to the study. Also included is a NPD linked data file containing linked pupil-level KS2 results and two datasets to support analysis with missing data for KS2 attainment for pupils who attended boycott schools in 2010. Further information is available in the User Guide.<br> <br>