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

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Variable Details

Variable

vc71a2

Label

SCHOOL SUBJECT 2 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	5
2	Art	29
3	Art and Design	7
4	Anatomy, Physiology & Hygiene	2
5	Arithmetic	13
6	Archaeology	0
7	Biology	78
8	Human Biology	10
9	Business Studies	9
10	Building	1
11	Hairdressing & Beauty	0
12	Chemistry	57
13	Commerce	12
14	Computing Studies	16
15	Classics	1
16	CD & Technology	2
17	Commercial studies	1
18	Child care/Child development	17
19	Cookery	9
20	CSS	0
21	Craft	2
22	Communication skills	2
23	Catering	1
24	Community studies	4
25	Design & Technology	4
26	Design	3
27	Drama	5
28	Dance	1
29	Economics	4
30	Electronics	0
31	Engineering science	0
32	English unspecified	127
33	English language	342
34	English literature	252
35	English spoken	5
36	Engineering	3
37	Environmental studies	3
38	European studies	2
39	Economic history	0
40	Food & Nutrition	2
41	Fashion/Fashion & Fabric	0
42	French	18
43	Geology	4
44	Geography	31
45	German	8
46	Government & Political studies	0
47	General studies	4
48	Graphic design/Graphics	1
49	Government & Commerce	0
50	Government	0
51	GE Design	0
52	History	30
53	Home studies	1
54	Home economics	15
55	Humanities	1
56	History of art	0
57	Health studies	0
58	History of economics	0
59	History & Geography	1
60	Italian	0
61	Information technology	1
62	Latin	0
63	Life/Leisure studies	0
64	Mathematics	248
65	Metalwork	3
66	Metal & Plastics	0
67	Motor vehicle studies	1
68	Music	5
69	Media studies	0
70	Modern studies	1
71	Meedlecraft	0
72	Nutrition	0
73	Nursing	0
74	Numeracy	0
75	Office practices	2
76	Physics	30
77	Physics with Chemistry	0
78	Physical education	2
79	Political economy	0
80	Pottery	0
81	Photography	1
82	Religious education	8
83	Rural studies	1
84	Russian	0
85	Spanish	0
86	Science	13
87	Statistics	2
88	General science	4
89	Secretarial studies	0
90	Social studies	4
91	Sociology	5
92	Social & Community studies	1
93	Social economics	0
94	Social education	0
95	Shorthand	0
96	Typing	6
97	Technology	0
98	Textiles	3
101	Technical woodwork	0
102	TVEI	0
103	Wood processing	6
104	Woodwork	0
105	World studies	7
106	Other languages	7
107	Other academic subjects	0
108	Other vocational subjects	0
109	B Tech unspecified	0
110	Others	1
Sysmiss		140

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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