The Scottish Young People Survey (SYPS) cohort series was a postal survey in which questionnaires were initially sent to young people approximately nine months after they had completed their 4th year in secondary school. The survey covered the following topics: experience of school; curriculum; attainment; post-school destinations; entry to labour market; employment; unemployment; training; YTS/employment schemes; further and higher education; attainment and aspirations of young people; attitudes to training/education; attitudes to school and after; social background. In order to make the questions relevant to the respondents' experiences and to reduce the overall number they were required to answer, the questionnaires were divided into several different types and targeted according to the information about sample members provided by the schools (i.e. expected stage of leaving school). The 1983/84 Cohort began with the 1985 survey of a school-year group of people who were in their last compulsory year (4th year) in Session 1983-84. (The cohort included young people who left school from 4th year in 1983-84 who were also represented in the concurrent survey of school leavers). A second sweep of the school-year group cohort was carried out in spring 1986, with a third sweep in autumn 1987.Data Files Cohort83_4_sweep1.sav holds the survey variables (except for curriculum variables) for each member of the cohort. The unique identifier for each member of the cohort is “PUBLICID” Curriculum variables are held in the following files, and can be linked to other survey variables using “PUBLICID”. Note that in the curriculum files there are multiple records per case. • Rec36_sbjsubj2.sav holds details of subjects and results in the Scottish Certificate of Education (SCE) exams in S4 • Rec40_sbjsubjq.sav holds details of subjects studied for SCE Highers in S5 (it does not include results because survey predated exams). • Rec42_othrsubj.sav holds details of other subjects and qualifications (ie no SCE). • Rec43_schlqual.sav holds details of subjects intended for S6 • Rec44_modschl.sav holds details of Scotvec National Certificate modules studied in S5 Documentation Variables in SYPS Cohort83_4 sweep1.pdf: This file provides a list of the survey variable names (and brief labels) together with the questionnaire page numbers where the relevant question can be found on each version of the questionnaire. Questionnaire pages showing the variable names for each question are provided in the following files: • Q1 questionnaire • Q2 questionnaire • A1 questionnaire • A1 questionnaire • C1 questionnaire • C2 questionnaire SYPS 1985 Dictionary is the original dictionary for the 1985 SIR dataset, and includes information about the collection of sample details, coding procedures and code lists. Note that the variable names used in this dictionary are slightly different to those in the current dataset. SYPS cohort83_84 sweep 1 Technical Report provides details of the sample, survey despatches, response rates and weighting procedures.