Survey Of Young People Research Articles

Increasing access to sexual health care for rural and regional young people: Similarities and differences in the views of young people and service providers.

This study aims to describe the views of sexual health service providers on access issues for young people and consider them together with the views of young people themselves. A cross-sectional mixed-methods study design involving semi-structured interviews with health service providers and an electronic survey with young people. Four towns in rural and regional Queensland, Australia. A total of 32 service providers: 9 sexual health nurses, 8 general practitioners, 6 school-based youth health nurses, 5 sexual health educators, 2 Australian Aboriginal health workers and 2 youth workers. There were 391 young people who participated in the Young People's Survey. Themes generated from interviews with service providers and quantitative data from young people addressing access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services for rural and regional young people. Service providers frequently identified structural barriers, confidentiality and lack of awareness of SRH services as barriers for young people seeking SRH care. Young people also reported that structural factors such as transport, cost and service operating hours were important; however, they placed greater value on personal attributes of service providers, particularly welcoming and non-judgemental attitudes. Health service policy and training focused on attitudinal qualities of individual service providers may improve access to SRH services for young people. Selective staff recruitment and professional development are important to increase sensitivity to youth issues. Promotion of non-judgemental and confidential care may also improve access for youth.

Fitting Homes? Young People's Housing and Household Strategies in Rural Scotland

Recent research on young people and housing has identified the strategies that young people have to employ in a housing market which does not cater for them. Young people's housing careers, their perceptions of the local rural housing market, and whether they consciously employ adaptive household strategies in order to be able to compete for housing are considered. A recent Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)-funded study of young people in the Scottish Borders, comparing the housing careers of stayers with those of migrants away from the area, is discussed. The study involved a qualitative follow-up from a subset of the Scottish Young People's Survey, and this housing analysis is based on data from taped individual interviews with young people aged 22-23 years. The findings indicate that the current rural housing market discriminates particularly against women, and argue for more housing provision for single young people.

Fitting Homes? Young People's Housing and Household Strategies in Rural Scotland

Recent research on young people and housing has identified the strategies that young people have to employ in a housing market which does not cater for them. Young people's housing careers, their perceptions of the local rural housing market, and whether they consciously employ adaptive household strategies in order to be able to compete for housing are considered. A recent Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)-funded study of young people in the Scottish Borders, comparing the housing careers of stayers with those of migrants away from the area, is discussed. The study involved a qualitative follow-up from a subset of the Scottish Young People's Survey, and this housing analysis is based on data from taped individual interviews with young people aged 22-23 years. The findings indicate that the current rural housing market discriminates particularly against women, and argue for more housing provision for single young people.

Neighbourhoods, Opportunity Structures and Occupational Aspirations

In this paper we use evidence from the Scottish Young People's Surveys to explore some of the ways in which local contexts help to shape young people's subjective orientations towards the labour market. We attempt to move beyond the concept of `opportunity structures' introduced by Roberts by considering the salience of a number of possible components of these structures of opportunity. We argue that young people's occupational aspirations are shaped as part of an interplay between individual inequalities and opportunity contexts and we provide evidence to challenge earlier research which cast doubt on the importance of local contexts. Our research suggests that neighbourhoods have an important impact on male occupational aspirations but that contextual effects have a weaker effect on females.

Local variation in the Scottish pilot projects of the Technical and Vocational Education Initiative

Abstract This report is a statistical evaluation of the Scottish pilot projects in one of the largest experimental innovations ever to have been undertaken in British schools ‐‐ the Technical and Vocational Education Initiative (TVEI). The TVEI had deliberately exploratory aims, to encourage the technological and vocational education of students at school and college. The evaluation is based on data from the 2‐yearly Scottish Young People's Survey: thus the Initiative, and its development over time, can be evaluated in the context of an entire national system. The outcomes which are measured include attainment in public examinations, the propensity to truant from school, staying on in full‐time education beyond the minimum leaving age, and (for those who left education) gaining employment or a place on a training scheme. The analysis is conducted by multilevel modelling. Statistical controls at the student level allow for individual differences between students who were and were not on the TVEI programme....

The effects of post-16 experiences and social class on the leisure patterns of young adults

In this paper we use data from the Scottish Young People's Surveys in order to examine the effects of post-16 experiences and social class on the leisure patterns of young people with an average age of just over 19 years. We analyse leisure patterns in relation to labour market status and assess the longer term effects of post-16 experiences on young people's leisure activities. We argue that young people's social class and experiences after the age of 16 have an important and lasting effect on their subsequent leisure patterns.

Quality and Quantity: Tackling Non-Contact Attrition in a Longitudinal Survey

This research note describes some of the methods of reducing non-contact attrition used in the Scottish Young People's Surveys, and suggests that the type of attrition reduction method used can affect the quality of the survey sample.

Stalling between fools: contradictions in the structure and processes of YTS

Abstract Three key researches bearing on YTS are analysed: that of the IMS (Institute for Manpower Studies) which provided the training rationale for YTS; an important economic analysis (Chapman & Tooze 1987); and Raffe's long‐term study derived from the SYPS (Scottish Young People's Survey). A series of ‘contradictions’ are examined which are likely to undermine YTS, the most serious being MSC's ambiguous role as a manager of both employment and unemployment. The IMS rationale is defective and ideologically based but has become institutionally entrenched. In practice it proves counterproductive, particularly with regard to the OTF (Occupational Training Families) system. Because of this YTS does not meet real labour market needs; there has been a reversal of the roles of supply and demand. Raffe argues that improving the quality of YTS has no bearing on its success or failure. He stresses the ‘primacy of context’ over content, arguing that unless labour market contexts are changed, YTS cannot succeed. In...