DOI: 10.3886/icpsr08896.v3
title: High School and Beyond, 1980: Sophomore and Senior Cohort Third Follow-up (1986)
title: Version 3

description: This data collection represents the fourth wave of the High School and Beyond series. The base-year data (ICPSR 7896) were collected in 1980, and the first and second follow-ups (ICPSR 8297 and ICPSR 8443) were conducted in 1982 and 1984. The High School and Beyond series is a longitudinal study of students who were high school sophomores and seniors in 1980. As with the first and second follow-ups, the structure and documentation of High School and Beyond Third Follow-Up data files represent a departure from base-year (1980) practices. While the base-year student file contains data from both the senior and sophomore cohorts, the three follow-up surveys provide separate student files for the two cohorts. Each of the cohort files for this collection merges the base year and first and second follow-up data with the third follow-up data. To maintain comparability with prior waves, many questions from previous follow-up surveys were repeated on the third follow-up questionnaire. Respondents were asked to update background information and to provide information about their work experience, unemployment history, education and other training, family information, income, and other experiences and opinions. Event history formats were used for obtaining responses about jobs held, schools attended, periods of unemployment, and marriage patterns. New items were added on respondents' interest in graduate degree programs and on alcohol consumption habits. The transcript files, which present data taken from official records of academic and vocational schools, include information on program enrollments, periods of study, fields of study pursued, specific courses taken, and credentials earned.
description: The Senior Cohort Third Follow-Up data file (DS1) includes data from the base year through three follow-ups and also the base year test data. Nine different weights have been calculated to adjust for the fact that not all sample members have data for all instruments in all survey waves. Table 3.2.1-1 from the Introduction to the Senior file in the "Original ICPSR Codebook, 1988 Release" describes the weights computed for this data file, including the type of data that each weight variable applies to. The weights calculated for the sophomore cohort (DS2: Sophomore Student File Base Year Through Third Follow-Up Data) are listed and described in Table 3.6-1 from the Introduction to the Sophomore file in the "Original ICPSR Codebook, 1988 Release". A description of the weights calculated for the Post-Secondary Transcript Survey for the Sophomore Cohort (DS3, DS4, DS5, and DS6) is included in Table 5-8 from the Introduction to the Transcript Survey in the "Original ICPSR Codebook, 1988 Release".
description: Multi-stage, stratified, clustered sampling design.
description: Datasets: DS0: Study-Level Files DS1: Senior Student File Base Year Through Third Follow-Up Data DS2: Sophomore Student File Base Year Through Third Follow-Up Data DS3: Post-Secondary Transcript Survey for Sophomore Cohort: Course-Level Data DS4: Post-Secondary Transcript Survey for Sophomore Cohort: Student-Level Data DS5: Post-Secondary Transcript Survey for Sophomore Cohort: Term-Level Data DS6: Post-Secondary Transcript Survey for Sophomore Cohort: Transcript-Level Data
description: 10th and 12th grade high-school students enrolled in United States schools in the spring of 1980.
description: face-to-face interview; mail questionnaire; telephone interviewData for the transcript study are contained in four files: course, student, term, and transcript. These four files are organized so that they may be used in combination hierarchically.