This dataset has been constructed from the Scottish Young People’s Survey (SYPS) and Scottish School Leavers Survey (SSLS) as part of research project – Education and Youth Transitions in England, Wales and Scotland 1984-2002 - funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (R000239852). A key part of the project was to create comparable time-series datasets, comparable over time and for England, Wales and Scotland, from the Youth Cohort Study (YCS) and Scottish cohort surveys. All the datasets constructed for this project are available from the UK Data Service, study number SN 5765. The Scottish youth cohort trends dataset included in Datashare includes one additional cohort.One data file (Scottish cases only). N=43,251, number of variables=154.