The Youth Cohort Study (YCS) is a series of longitudinal surveys that contacts a sample of an academic year-group or "cohort" of young people in the spring following completion of education and usually annually until they are aged 19 or 20. The survey looks at young people's education and labour market experience, their training and qualifications and a wide range of other issues, including socio-demographic variables. This publication details the findings of the third "sweep" of cohort 11, updating the findings of the second sweep, published in December 2003.

Revisions and Amendments

  • April 2005 - There was an error identified with a variable used to produce the percentages of respondents attaining at least level 2 via GNVQ/AVCEs in Table F of the SFR (SFR43/2004). The error has now been rectified and the table has been corrected.
  • June 2006 - All the Cohort 11 Statistical First Releases have been revised due to a problem with the coding of NS-SEC which has now been corrected.

Contact details

Clare Baker
Telephone: 0114 274 2439
Email: Clare.Baker@education.gsi.gov.uk