The Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) are a series of nationally representative surveys of young people, which follow their transitions from compulsory schooling to post-school education and into employment. The survey program is administered by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) on behalf of the Australian Government Department of Education, Skills and Employment. This publication presents research highlights from the past 25 years of the LSAY program, with a focus on schooling, VET in schools programs, the influences of socioeconomic status and demogr
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The Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) are a series of nationally representative surveys of young people, which follow their transitions from compulsory schooling to post-school education and into employment. The survey program is administered by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) on behalf of the Australian Government Department of Education, Skills and Employment. This publication presents research highlights from the past 25 years of the LSAY program, with a focus on schooling, VET in schools programs, the influences of socioeconomic status and demographics on later opportunities, and pathways taken from school into further education and the workforce. This publication is not an exhaustive reflection of LSAY's long research history but aims to showcase the value of the data.
The infographic explores the first 25 years of LSAY research. Each section represents snapshots taken from different research studies which are grouped around wider themes: school, VET, university, employment and youth transitions. The first four sections show research using data from a specific cohort, which is represented by the coloured banner. The final section, Youth Transitions, shows snapshots from studies that feature multiple cohorts or look at pathways more broadly.
Published abstracts.
The chapters in the research report are as follows: Student insights, trajectories and equity considerations: using the LSAY to examine demographic predictors of participation in senior secondary science / Grant Cooper (pages 30-33); Inequality in higher education and labour market benefits for young Australians / Jung-Sook Lee (pages 34-39); Associations between educational attainment and both family and school SES / Jenny Chesters (pages 40-44); Student transfer between VET and higher education / David D. Curtis (pages 46-55); Initial outcomes from VET in Schools programs in Australia / Cain Polidano and Domenico Tabasso (pages 56-62); Schools and career guidance key to widening university participation / Wojtek Tomaszewski, Francisco Perales and Ning Xiang (pages 64-68); The underrepresentation of women in maths-intensive fields of study: the role of teenage occupational expectations, self-assessed maths competence and subject choice in Year 12 / Helen Law (pages 69-74); Juxtaposing maths self-efficacy and self-concept as predictors of long-term achievement outcomes / Philip Parker (pages 75-78); Adolescent occupational expectations: two decades of LSAY-based research / Joanna Sikora (pages 80-86); Who takes a gap year and why? / John Stanwick (pages 87-91); Does combining school and work affect school and post-school outcomes? / Alison Anlezark (pages 92-102); Young people not in education, employment or training (NEET) / Cameron Forrest (pages 103-108); School-to-work transitions: untangling the pathways / Rasika Ranasinghe and Emerick Chew (pages 110-121).
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