Interdisciplinary understanding of youth:Development and test of a longitudinal survey for the Swiss Federal Survey of Adolescents

Author(s):

Stephan Gerhard Huber(presenting / submitting)Lehmann Mariette Lussi Isabella

Conference:

ECER 2011

Network:

14. Communities, Families and Schooling in Educational Research

Format:

Paper

Session Information

14 SES 06 A, Schooling of Ordinary and Vulnerable Youth. Transitions between Levels of Schooling and Transitions to Adulthood (Part 2)

Paper Session

Time:

2011-09-14

15:00-16:30

Room:

KL 25/134,G, 70

Chair:

Pedro Silva

Contribution

The project “Swiss Federal Survey of Adolescents, Main Indicators ch-x” initiates a long-term monitoring of Swiss youth in the fields of education, politics, and health behaviour. The target population are Swiss adolescents who are 19 years old, and it is planned that the survey will be conducted every four years in order to permit a longitudinal analysis of the Swiss youth.

The theoretical framework is interdisciplinary, applying an adapted capability approach (Sen 1985; 1987; 1993; 1999), which is a normative paradigm for the evaluation of individual well-being.. In this project, the capability approach is enriched with concepts of self-perception, values, and actions in different contexts.

Method

The survey comprises established survey items as well as newly developed ones. The questionnaire has undergone multiple pre-testing. It was reviewed by an expert of the Centre for Survey Design and Methodology in Mannheim, Germany. The survey items have been translated from German into French and Italian, applying the committee-based-approach of the TRAPD Procedure (Harkness 2008). They have been tested in several focus groups that included German, French and Italian speaking young adults. Additionally, we carried out a small pre-test (n=240) in order to enhance survey items. Furthermore, a pilot study (n=1000) was carried out. The survey was applied in a matrix design. In 2010 with the final version of the questionnaire data was gathered with a sample of 21’200 adolescents. By 2012 the data set will comprise a sample of 42’400 respondents.

Expected Outcomes

At ECER first findings will be presented describing the sample as well as the adolescents values and attitudes and its coherence with socio-demographic variables (e.g. educational attainment).

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Author Information

Stephan Gerhard Huber (presenting / submitting)

Institut für Bildungsmanagement und Bildungsökonomie

Pädagogische Hochschule Zentralschweiz (PHZ) Zug

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Lehmann Mariette

Institut für Bildungsmanagement und Bildungsökonomie, Switzerland

Lussi Isabella