Young Lives: School Survey 2010-2011, Round 1
India, 2010 - 2011
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Young Lives: School Survey 2010-2011
Round 1
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| India | IND |
Other Household Survey [hh/oth]
Time Dimensions: Longitudinal/panel/cohort
This is a sub-study of our main Young Lives cohort study.
The objectives of the study are to provide good quality long-term data about the lives of children living in poverty, trace linkages between key policy changes and child welfare, and inform and respond to the needs of policymakers, planners and other stakeholders. Research activities of the project include the collection of data on a set of child welfare outcomes and their determinants and the monitoring of changes in policy, in order to explore the links between the policy environment and outcomes for children.
The study is being conducted in Ethiopia, India (in Andhra Pradesh), Peru and Vietnam. These countries were selected because they reflect a range of cultural, geographical and social contexts and experience differing issues facing the developing world; high debt burden, emergence from conflict, and vulnerability to environmental conditions such as drought and flood.
The Young Lives study aims to track the lives of 12,000 children over a 15-year period. This is the time-frame set by the UN to assess progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. Round 1 of the study followed 2,000 children (aged between 6 and 18 months in 2002) and their households, from both urban and rural communities, in each of the four countries (8,000 children in total). Data were also collected on an older cohort of 1,000 children aged 7 to 8 years in each country, in order to provide a basis for comparison with the younger children when they reach that age. Round 2 of the study returned to the same children who were aged 1-year-old in Round 1 when they were aged approximately 5-years-old, and to the children aged 8-years-old in Round 1 when they were approximately 12-years-old. Round 3 of the study returned to the same children again when they were aged 7 to 8 years (the same as the older cohort in Round 1) and 14 to 15 years. It is envisaged that subsequent survey waves will take place in 2013 and 2016. Thus the younger children are being tracked from infancy to their mid-teens and the older children through into adulthood, when some will become parents themselves.
Further information about the survey, including publications, can be downloaded from the <a href='http://www.younglives.org.uk/'>Young Lives</a> website.
School Survey:
A school survey was introduced into Young Lives in 2010, following the third round of the household survey, in order to capture detailed information about children’s experiences of schooling. It addressed two main research questions:
• how do the relationships between poverty and child development manifest themselves and impact upon children's educational experiences and outcomes?
• to what extent does children’s experience of school reinforce or compensate for disadvantage in terms of child development and poverty?
The survey allows researchers to link longitudinal information on household and child characteristics from the household survey with data on the schools attended by the Young Lives children and children's achievements inside and outside the school. A wide range of stakeholders, including government representatives at national and sub-national levels, NGOs and donor organisations were involved in the design of the school survey, so the researchers could be sure that the ‘right questions’ were being asked to address major policy concerns. This consultation process means that policymakers already understand the context and potential of the Young Lives research and are interested to utilise the data and analysis to inform their policy decisions. The survey provides policy-relevant information on the relationship between child development (and its determinants) and children’s experience of school, including access, quality and progression. This combination of household, child and school-level data over time constitutes the comparative advantage of the Young Lives study.
School Survey data are currently only available for India and Peru. The Peru data are available from the UK Data Archive under SN 7479.
Further information is available from the Young Lives <a href='http://www.younglives.org.uk/what-we-do/school-survey'>School Survey</a> webpages.
Sample survey data [ssd]
Individuals; Institutions/organisations
Version
Date of First Release: 10 April 2014
File last updated: 19 May 2014
Scope
Main Topics:
The survey included data collection at the school, class and pupil level, and involved the Principal, the maths teacher, and the Young Lives child. The instruments included in the survey are:
• Principal questionnaire. Administered individually to principals
• Teacher questionnaires and assessment. Administered individually to maths teachers. Teacher assessment component (of mathematical pedagogical content knowledge) was self-administered under fieldworker supervision
• Child questionnaire and assessments. Administered in groups of 6. Questionnaire was fieldworker led and directed. Assessments in Maths, Telugu and English were self-administered
• School observation. Fieldworker completed during time in school
• Classroom observations. Fieldworker completed observation of YL child maths lesson. Both YL child/children, class peers (to make it up to 6 children per class) and the teacher were observed at intervals across each lesson and their activities recorded. Additional class-specific questions asked of teacher
| Topic |
|---|
| General - Education |
| Literacy - Education |
| Youth - Social stratification and groupings |
| Primary, pre-primary and secondary - Education |
| Research - Education |
Coverage
Andhra Pradesh
Location of Units of Observation: Subnational
Population: Young Lives children, the school they attend, their head teachers and class teachers, in Andhra Pradesh, India, 2010-2011.
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Boyden, J. | University of Oxford. Department of International Development |
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Department for International Development | Funded the study |
| Netherlands, Ministry of Foreign Affairs | Funded the study |
Sampling
Sampling Procedures: Multi-stage stratified random sample
Number of Units: 953 Young Lives children across 249 schools
No weighting used.
Survey instrument
The survey instruments included data collection at the school, class and pupil level, and involved the head teacher, class teacher, and pupil. The instruments comprises of the following components:
• School roster
• Child questionnaire answer sheet 1
• Child questionnaire answer sheet 2
• Child Maths test
• Child Telugu test
• Child English test
• Child language learning experience
• Child observation 1 (Maths)
• Child observation 2 (Maths)
• Child observation 3 (Maths)
• Teacher questionnaire
• Teacher content knowledge test (Maths)
• Maths teacher observation 1
• Maths teacher observation 2
• Head teacher questionnaire
• School observation
• School observation - homework
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2010-12 | 2011-03 |
| Name |
|---|
| Galab, S., Centre for Economic and Social Studies (India) |
| Reddy, P., Centre for Economic and Social Studies (India) |
Training
The fieldworker training took place during a period of three weeks in November 2010 at The Center for Economic and Social Studies (CESS). Each of the survey modules was introduced and discussed during training sessions. Each team of fieldworkers were then asked to conduct three practice surveys in schools of their choice under the supervision of their respective supervisors. This procedure allowed the fieldworkers to familiarize themselves with the instruments and enabled them to clarify any doubts before the final fieldwork.
Fieldwork
Fieldwork was conducted across the 7 districts and 20 mandals which constitute the Young Lives sample, between 1st December 2010 - 15th March 2011.
Fieldwork teams consisted of one supervisor and two pairs of fieldworkers. Teams travelled to sites as a group, and split into pairs to conduct the survey, with the supervisor responsible for overseeing the work of each pair, and for facilitating access to sample schools. The supervisor facilitiated discussion amongst the team each day to clarify any issues that arose during fieldwork. It was the role of this supervisor to check each completed instrument, clarify doubts, and report back to the Principal Investigator based in Hyderabad should they encounter difficulty. In addition to this day-to-day supervision, members of both the India and Oxford teams conducted visits to each fieldwork team throughout the fieldwork period. These visits involved spot checks of completed protocols to ensure uniformity of completion and understanding. Where problems were identified they were investigated, and the conclusions relayed to all field teams.
For the purposes of the Classroom Observation protocol, inter-observer reliability checks were conducted in the middle of the fieldwork period (January 2011) whereby two fieldworkers observed the same children and/or the same teachers, and their scripts were returned to Oxford for comparison. For the child observation, 87.0% of observations matched and for the teacher observation, 88.5% matched, demonstrating a high level of mutual understanding in the interpretation of the protocol between fieldworkers.
Data Access
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| UK Data Service | University of Essex | http://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/help/get-in-touch.aspx | help@ukdataservice.ac.uk |
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Bibliographic Citation
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The bibliographic citation for this data collection is:
Boyden, J., Young Lives: School Survey, India, 2010-2011 [computer file]. Colchester, Essex: UK Data Archive [distributor], April 2014. SN: 7478 , http://dx.doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-7478-1
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Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anne Solon, Data and Survey Manager | University of Oxford | anne.solon@qeh.ox.ac.uk | http://www.ox.ac.uk |
| Young Lives, Oxford Department of International Development (ODID) | University of Oxford | younglives@younglives.org.uk | http://www.younglives.org.uk |
| UK Data Service | University of Essex | help@ukdataservice.ac.uk | http://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/help/get-in-touch.aspx |
Metadata production
DDI_IND_2010_YLSSS-R1_v01_M_WB
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| UK Data Archive | University of Essex, Colchester | Metadata preparation |
2014-08-27
Metadata version
Version 02 (August 2014). Initial version of the DDI (DDI2.5 XML CODEBOOK RECORD FOR STUDY NUMBER 7478) was done by UK Data Service in May, 2014.