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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

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

Variable Details

Variablevc72bb1
LabelSUBJECT 1 QUALIFICATION
Question text Starting with the first course after you left please tell me all the subjects that you took and the qualifications and grades that you got, or tried to get, on this course. Include qualifications you are studying for at the moment.
Responses
0 None 5
1 CSE 5
3 GCE 'O' Level 30
4 GCSE 16
5 GCE 'A' Level 30
6 Scottish 'O' Grade 0
7 Scottish Standard Grade 0
8 Scottish Higher Grade 4
9 CSYS 1
10 RSA - Stage 1 70
11 RSA - Stage 2 17
12 RSA - Stage 3 7
13 Operative 11
14 Craft/Intermediate/Ordinary/Part 1 95
15 Advance/Final/Part II/III 12
16 Full Technological (FTC) 2
17 Other City & Gilds 77
18 City & Guilds-can't say which 98
19 Insignia Award in Technology (GCIA) 0
20 JIB/NHC or other Craft Technician Certificate 2
21 ONC/OND (or SNC/SND) 36
22 HNC/HND (or SHNC/SHND) 21
23 TEC/BEC/BTEC National/General certificate or Diploma 90
24 TEC/BEC/BTEC Higher or Higher Cert or Diploma 9
25 Other technical/business qual 18
26 Professional qualification 12
28 Nursing quals incl. NNEB 20
29 Polytechnic Diploma/Certificate 15
30 University Diploma/Certificate 4
31 University/CNAA Degree 8
32 University/CNAA Postgraduate Diploma 127
33 University/CNAA Higher Degree 0
34 Other qualifications 7
99 Don't know 151
-8 Out of range 0
Sysmiss 647
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
Location1970 British Cohort Study: Twenty-One-Year Sample Survey, 1992
Interviewer InstructionsUSE SUBJECT, QUALIFICATION AND GRADE CARDS TO CODE. CHECK COURSE NUMBER MATCHES COURSE NUMBER AT Q74.
UniverseA 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
SamplingOne-stage cluster sample;A simple random sample of the BCS70 cohort
Study TypeLongitudinal/panel/cohort
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