DOI: 10.5279/dk-sa-dda-1364
title: Ungdomsforløbsundersøgelsen, 1976
title: Young People: Educational and Occupational Choice, 1976

description: I 1965 gennemførte Socialforskningsinstituttet en undersøgelse af de 14-20 åriges uddannelsessituation. Som en fortsættelse af denne undersøgelse ønskede man nærmere at belyse den proces, der fører til de uddannelsesmæssige forhold, som 1965-undersøgelsen påviste. Derfor iværksatte Socialforskningsinstituttet i foråret 1968 på foranledning af Undervisningsministeriet en undersøgelse af en generation af unges uddannelses- og erhvervsvalg.     #  Undersøgelsen kaldes ungdomsforløbsundersøgelsen. I undersøgelsen forsøgte man at finde frem til, hvordan det kan være, at nogle får een uddannelse frem for en anden, eller eet arbejde frem for et andet. Desuden ville man finde ud af, hvorfor nogle er i uddannelse i ungdomsårene, mens andre er i arbejde.     #  Et sådant undersøgelsesformål kan bedst opfyldes, hvis undersøgelsen er af longitudinal karakter, dvs. en forløbsundersøgelse. Derfor består undersøgelsespopulationen af 3.100 unge, som man ville følge i ca. 6 år, fra deres 14.-15. til deres 20.-21. år. Disse unge blev i foråret 1968 udvalgt som et repræsentativt udsnit af 7. klasses-elever over hele landet.     #  For at gøre billedet af uddannelses- og erhvervsvalgsprocessen så fyldigt og klart som muligt prøvede man at afdække mange forskellige områder, som kunne tænkes at have indflydelse på denne proces. Dette gjorde man ved at optage interviews af forskellig art, ved at spørge de unge om forhold, som måske ikke umiddelbart syntes at have forbindelse med uddannelses- og erhvervsvalget (fx om fritidsbeskæftigelse og kontakt med jævnaldrende), samt ved at interviewe de unges forældre og lærere.     #  Umiddelbart kunne man tro, at det ville være nok at interviewe een gang, fx ved 25-års alderen, og så bede interviewpersonerne fortælle, hvordan det er gået dem. Når man ikke gjorde det, skyldes det, at blandt de utroligt mange forhold, der har betydning for, hvordan det går den enkelte, husker man kun nogle, og som tiden går, bliver det huskede mere og mere forvrænget. Måske svarer man, så det passer med, hvad der senere er sket. I undersøgelsen var man interesseret i, hvad der faktisk skete. Derfor var man også nødt til at spørge om det, mens det foregik, og altså måtte man interviewe flere gange under uddannelses- og erhvervsvalgsforløbet.     #  De første fire faser er beskrevet under DDA-1363: Ungdomsforløbsundersøgelsen, 1968-1973.     #     #5. fase:     #Den femte interviewfase fandt sted ved mundtligt interview i november 1976, da de unge var ca. 22 år
description: In 1965 the Danish National Institute of Social Research carried out a survey of the educational conditions of the 14 to 20-year-olds. In continuation of this survey it was decided to examine more closely the process leading to the educational conditions mapped out in the 1965-survey. Thus, in the spring of 1968, the Danish National Institute of Social Research carried out a longitudinal survey of the choice of education and occupation of a generation of adolescents at the request of the Ministry of Education.     #  The aim of this survey, called the youth panel survey, was to examine why some young people choose one education in preference to others and one job in preference to others. Furthermore, the intention was to find out why some young people get an education while others get a job.     #  Such an aim may best be fulfilled if the survey is longitudinal, i.e. a panel survey, and therefore the survey population consists of 3100 young people, who were to be followed through a period of approx. 6 years, from they were 14-15 and till they were 20-21. These young people were selected as a representative sample of all 7th form pupils in the entire country in the spring of 1968.     #  In order to get as detailed and clear a picture of the process involved in choice of education and occupation an attempt was made at mapping out a large number of aspects which were considered to influence this process. This was done by carrying out various types of interviews, by asking the young people about conditions which did not immediately seem to have any connection with the choice of education and occupation (e.g. spare time activities, and contact with young people of the same age), and by carrying out interviews with the young people's parents and teachers.     #  On the face of it one might find it sufficient to carry out interviews only once, e.g. when the young people were 25, and then ask the respondents how they had managed. The reason for not doing this was that people only remember alimited number of the aspects which are of importance for how they manage, and as time passes memory becomes more and more distorted. People may answer in such a way that what happened earlier fits in with what happened later. The survey was concerned with what actually happened, and therefore it was necessary to ask about this at the time when it happened, so interviews had to be carried out several times during the course of education and occupation.     #     #The first four phases are described in DDA-1363: 'Young People: Educational and Occupational Choice, 1968-1973'.     #     #Phase 5:     #The third interview phase consisted of face-to-face interviews in November 1976 when the young people were about 22 years old
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