PISA Longitudinal
– a longitudinal database on research of the transition from youth to adulthood

The PISA L database (PISA Longitudinal) is aimed on research regarding the transition from youth to adulthood. The database has been established as a follow-up survey of the existing PISA database (Programme for International Student Assessment) with added administrative register data with the aim of carrying out analyses of young people born in 1983/84 within topics like: choice of education, social background, academic knowledge and skills, social competences, guidance, ethnicity, social network, cultural interests, values and future prospects.

Register information on young people's way through the education system and entering the labour market is successively connected to the dataset. 

In the long run, further data collection – among others test of knowledge and skills – could create a comprehensive database for the use of analysing the whole transition from youth to adulthood.

The purpose of establishing PISA Longitudinal has been to create a solid basis for the research of the transition from youth to adulthood focusing on how young people's social background, and their experience of compulsory school – including gained skills, attitudes and values – influence their choice of education and position and experience on the labour market. In the long run, the research perspective is the way from childhood through youth and education to adulthood embedded in family and working life. In the short run, the perspective is young people's way through the education system or their way to the labour market after compulsory school.

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