Understanding Society: Linked Education Administrative Datasets (Scottish Education Data), Scotland, 2007-2018: Secure Access

<p><span style="font-style: italic;">Understanding Society</span> (UK Household Longitudinal Study), which began in 2009, is conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex, and the survey research organisations Verian Group (formerly Kantar Public) and NatCen. It builds on and incorporates the <span style="font-style: italic;">British Household Panel Survey</span> (BHPS), which began in 1991.</p>
<p>The <span style="font-style: italic;">Understanding Society: Linked Education Administrative Datasets (Scottish Education Data), Scotland, 2007-2018: Secure Access</span> study contains six files extracted from Sottish Education Data held by the Scottish Government. These can be linked (within the Secure Access service) to <span style="font-style: italic;">Understanding Society</span> participants using the cross-wave personal identifier (variable pidp). The Scottish Education Data files include information on pupil background, attainment, destination of leavers, student support, school attendance, absences and exclusions for all individuals with a valid consent to education linkage collected in Waves 1 and 4 of
<span style="font-style: italic;">Understanding Society</span>. This includes consents collected from parents of children aged 4-15 and of the young adults aged 16-43 and born in 1981 or later. The files include School Pupil Census data collected in September from pupils in state schools. Attainment data relates to senior phase attainment covering SQA qualifications. See documentation for further details.</p>
<p><span style="font-style: italic;">Related UK Data Archive studies<br></span>The equivalent study to this one that covers England is available in SN 7642. This study is frequently linked through the pidp variable to one of the main <span style="font-style: italic;">Understanding Society</span> datasets: SN 6614 (End User Licence), SN 6931 (Special Licence) or SN 6676 (Secure Access). A Special Licence dataset containing School Codes for the main <span style="font-style: italic;">Understanding Society</span> study (SN 7182) is also available. Further details can be found on the
<a href="http://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/series/?sn=2000053" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
Understanding Society series</a> webpage.</p>