Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Young Lives: an International Study of Childhood Poverty: Round 4, 2013-2014

Variable Details

VariableSCWHYR4
LabelWhy are you NOT in full-time education?
Responses
1 Fees too expensive 26
2 Books and/or other supplies too expensive 1
3 Shoes/Clothes/Uniform for school too expensive 0
4 Transport too expensive 0
5 School too far from home 15
6 Not safe to travel to school 0
7 Lack of transport 3
8 Truancy, child does not want to go, not interested 54
9 Banned from school for behaviour reasons 0
10 Banned from school because away for too long 0
11 Banned from school because failed to achieve necessary grade 15
12 Quality of education at school (teaching and learning) poor 1
13 Quality of care (food, non-educational care) poor 0
14 No sanitation facilities at school 0
15 Bullying/abuse from peers 0
16 Ill-treatment/abuse from teachers/principal 1
17 No need for schooling for future job 16
18 Need to learn a trade/skill, e.g. through apprenticeship so 5
19 Need to stay home to look after siblings 0
20 Needed for domestic and/or agricultural work at home (includ 27
21 Have to do paid work to earn money (including agricultural w 54
22 It 2
23 Marriage 42
24 Disability, Illness 11
25 Family member ill/disabled/elderly (including care for this 4
26 Family issues e.g. problems at home 0
27 Stigma and Discrimination (child was not be welcome because 1
28 School not accessible for seasonal reasons: river prohibits 0
31 Other, (specify) 97
32 Terminated the course of education in which I was enrolled i 24
33 Wanted to start working 80
79 Refused to answer 0
88 NA 2
Sysmiss 406
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationYoung Lives: an International Study of Childhood Poverty: Round 4, 2013-2014