LSAY Publications

LSAY 1998 cohort user guide



Technical paper no.53
Title:LSAY 1998 cohort user guide
Authors:NCVER
Publication date: 18 December 2009

This user guide has been developed for users of the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY). It consolidates existing technical documentation and other information into one document. The guide aims to address all aspects of the LSAY data including: how to access the data, data restrictions, variable naming conventions, the structure of the data, documentation, classifications and code frames used, weights and derived variables.

This user guide was last updated in April 2011.


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Data elements A - Demographics
     PDF icon  PDF, 440 KB       Word icon  Word, 90 KB  

Data elements B1 - Education
     PDF icon  PDF, 997 KB       Word icon  Word, 285 KB  

Data elements B2 - Education
     PDF icon  PDF, 1.26 MB       Word icon  Word, 656 KB  

Data elements C - Employment
     PDF icon  PDF, 1 MB       Word icon  Word, 403 KB  

Data elements D - Social
     PDF icon  PDF, 843 KB       Word icon  Word, 351 KB  

Cohort metadata spreadsheet
     Excel icon  Excel, 1.5 MB  

Institution code frame
     Excel icon  Excel, 146 KB  

Variable concordance
     Excel icon  Excel, 196 KB  

LSAY Area of study classifications
     Excel icon  Excel, 163 KB