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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

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

Variable Details

Variablevc72bc1
LabelSUBJECT 1 GRADE
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
1 A/1 Grade 21
2 B/2 Grade 31
3 C/3 Grade 35
4 D/4 Grade 12
5 E/5 Grade 5
6 F/6 Grade 3
7 Ungraded 10
8 Sat only 6
9 Pass 318
10 Other pass 82
11 Duplicate grade 4
12 Fail 90
13 Credit 76
14 Distinction 89
15 Merit 43
16 Certificate 12
17 I Hons 5
18 II/1 Hons 15
19 II/2 Hons 9
20 III Hons 1
21 I 0
22 II/1 3
23 II/2 4
24 III 2
25 Other 21
99 Still on course 92
-8 Out of range 11
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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