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1970 British Cohort Study: Twenty-One-Year Sample Survey, 1992

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Variable Details

Variable

vc71a1

Label

SCHOOL SUBJECT 1 CODE

Question text

Now I would like you to think about all of the subjects that you took exams for at the schools or colleges that we have just been talking about. START WITH FIRST SCHOOL. REPEAT FOR EACH SCHOOL. At (school) please tell me every subject that you took and the qualifications and grades that you obtained. Also tell me what your age was when you took the exam. We are interested in all the exams that you took, however well or badly you did.

Responses

1	Accounting	10
2	Art	118
3	Art and Design	8
4	Anatomy, Physiology & Hygiene	2
5	Arithmetic	23
6	Archaeology	0
7	Biology	78
8	Human Biology	12
9	Business Studies	8
10	Building	1
11	Hairdressing & Beauty	0
12	Chemistry	39
13	Commerce	4
14	Computing Studies	17
15	Classics	2
16	CD & Technology	1
17	Commercial studies	1
18	Child care/Child development	9
19	Cookery	6
20	CSS	0
21	Craft	2
22	Communication skills	0
23	Catering	0
24	Community studies	0
25	Design & Technology	2
26	Design	1
27	Drama	10
28	Dance	0
29	Economics	1
30	Electronics	2
31	Engineering science	0
32	English unspecified	112
33	English language	320
34	English literature	88
35	English spoken	0
36	Engineering	0
37	Environmental studies	1
38	European studies	0
39	Economic history	0
40	Food & Nutrition	0
41	Fashion/Fashion & Fabric	0
42	French	32
43	Geology	1
44	Geography	33
45	German	3
46	Government & Political studies	0
47	General studies	1
48	Graphic design/Graphics	1
49	Government & Commerce	0
50	Government	0
51	GE Design	1
52	History	32
53	Home studies	0
54	Home economics	7
55	Humanities	2
56	History of art	0
57	Health studies	0
58	History of economics	0
59	History & Geography	2
60	Italian	0
61	Information technology	0
62	Latin	1
63	Life/Leisure studies	0
64	Mathematics	430
65	Metalwork	4
66	Metal & Plastics	1
67	Motor vehicle studies	1
68	Music	5
69	Media studies	0
70	Modern studies	0
71	Meedlecraft	5
72	Nutrition	0
73	Nursing	0
74	Numeracy	1
75	Office practices	2
76	Physics	18
77	Physics with Chemistry	0
78	Physical education	2
79	Political economy	0
80	Pottery	3
81	Photography	0
82	Religious education	11
83	Rural studies	1
84	Russian	1
85	Spanish	0
86	Science	5
87	Statistics	0
88	General science	1
89	Secretarial studies	1
90	Social studies	2
91	Sociology	3
92	Social & Community studies	2
93	Social economics	0
94	Social education	1
95	Shorthand	0
96	Typing	14
97	Technology	1
98	Textiles	6
101	Technical woodwork	0
102	TVEI	0
103	Wood processing	5
104	Woodwork	0
105	World studies	2
106	Other languages	1
107	Other academic subjects	1
108	Other vocational subjects	0
109	B Tech unspecified	0
110	Others	0
Sysmiss		123

Disclaimer

Please note that these frequencies are not weighted.

Location

1970 British Cohort Study: Twenty-One-Year Sample Survey, 1992

Interviewer Instructions

GO THROUGH EACH SCHOOL ATTENDED IN TURN AND CODE SUBJECT/QUALIFICATION AND GRADES. USE SUBJECT, QUALIFICATION AND GRADE CARDS TO CODE. FOR EACH ONE WRITE IN SCHOOL NUMBER FROM Q70. USE GRID TO WRITE IN SUBJECT.

Universe

A clustered 10% sample of all respondents to an earlier BCS70 follow-up, living in England and Wales during 1992, who were not known to have died, emigrated or refused.;National

Sampling

One-stage cluster sample;A simple random sample of the BCS70 cohort

Study Type

Longitudinal/panel/cohort

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