CLOSER Discovery

Sweep 5 involved a number of significant changes in the way that the study was conducted compared to previous sweeps. The first change to the design of the study was the move to using a mixed mode data collection approach. From Wave 5 the young person could complete the interview either online, over the telephone or face to face with an interviewer in their own home as they had done previously.

In addition, Sweep 5 was the first sweep which interviewed the sampled young person only. The survey content focused on educational and early labour market experiences, but also included information on other aspects of cohort members' lives such as social participation and attitudes, risky-, crime- and anti-social behaviours, health and wellbeing, family formation, and aspirations for the future. Of the 11,793 young people issued at sweep 5, the survey reached 10,430 households (88%) in England.

Study website: www.cls.ucl.ac.uk/cls-studies/next-steps-age-18-sweep

England