Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth, 2015 cohort (Version 7.0)

In 2015 a nationally representative sample of about 14,500 15 year-old students was selected to participate in the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). This group of young people became the sixth cohort of the LSAY program (LSAY Y15). As part of PISA, assessments in mathematical literacy, reading literacy and scientific literacy were administered to schools to provide information on student achievement. Students also completed a background questionnaire about themselves, their families, their views on a range of science-related issues, the environment, educational and vocational expectations, attitudes to school and learning, attitudes towards information and communications technology, and their habits and life in and outside of school. In 2016, members of the Y15 cohort were contacted for the first of their annual LSAY interviews. The questionnaire for their 2016 interviews included questions about their activities during the last 12 months, school, post-school study, engagement in education, career aspirations and decision-making, employment, job satisfaction, job search experiences, income, soft skills, personality, and wellbeing. From 2016, respondents were given the option to complete their interviews by telephone or online. Response rates for the 2016 interviews were lower than expected due to a high rate of missing or unusable contact details provided at the time of PISA. To address this, recruitment of a top-up sample of Year 12 students was conducted in 2017 to ensure that future waves of the survey remain representative of the 15-year-old population in 2015. See Notes (in the Social Science and Humanities section of Metadata) for version details about this dataset. (2023-09)

2015年，研究团队选取约14500名15岁学生组成全国代表性样本，参与经济合作与发展组织（OECD）的国际学生评估项目（Programme for International Student Assessment，简称PISA）。这批青少年成为LSAY项目（LSAY program）的第六批队列（LSAY Y15）。作为PISA的一部分，研究人员面向参与学校开展了数学素养、阅读素养与科学素养测评，以获取学生学业表现相关数据。同时，参与学生需完成背景调查问卷，内容涵盖个人与家庭基本情况、对各类科学相关议题及环境的看法、教育与职业期望、对学校与学习的态度、对信息通信技术的态度，以及校内外生活习惯等。
2016年，研究团队首次联系Y15队列成员开展年度LSAY访谈。2016年访谈问卷涵盖受访者过去12个月的活动、在校状况、毕业后升学计划、教育参与度、职业抱负与决策、就业情况、工作满意度、求职经历、收入水平、软技能、人格特质与身心健康等内容。2016年起，受访者可选择通过电话或线上方式完成访谈。
由于PISA阶段收集的联系方式存在大量缺失或无效的情况，2016年访谈的应答率低于预期。为解决这一问题，研究团队于2017年招募了12年级学生作为补充样本，以确保后续调查波次仍能代表2015年的15岁人群群体。
有关本数据集的版本详情，请参阅元数据社科与人文板块中的注释（更新时间：2023-09）。