Title: Youth in transition survey, cycle 1, 2000 : 18-20 year old cohort. Synthetic version.

Series title: Youth in transition survey (YITS)

Principal investigator(s): Statistics Canada. Centre for Education Statistics & Human Resources and Skills Development Canada.

Producer: Ottawa, Ont.: Statistics Canada. Special Surveys Division (SDDS 4435)

Date of creation: 2002-04-09

Funding agency:

Collector:

Distributor: Ottawa, Ont.: Statistics Canada. Data Liberation Initiative

Date of distribution: 2004-07-05

Access conditions/restrictions: University of Toronto faculty, students and staff, for academic research and teaching purposes only. See DLI licence.

Summary: The Youth is Transition Survey (YITS) is designed to examine the patterns of, and influences on, major transitions in young people's lives, particularly with respect to education, training and work. Human Resources and Skills Development Canada and Statistics Canada have been developing the YITS in consultation with provincial and territorial ministries and departments of labour and education. Content includes measurement of major transitions in young people's lives including virtually all formal educational experiences and most about-market experiences, achievement, aspirations and expectations, and employment experiences. The implementation plan encompasses a longitudinal survey of each of two cohorts, ages 15 and 18-20, to be surveyed every two years. When YITS was conceived there was a planned duration for its collection cycle which is now (2010) coming to an end.

Geographic coverage: Canada. Target population excludes the northern territories, Indian reserves, Canadian Forces bases and some remote areas.

Time period: Reference period up to December 1999.

Date(s) of collection: 2000-01 to 2000-04.

Universe: The survey population for the 18 to 20 year-old cohort includes persons born in the years 1979 to 1981.

Data type: synthetic microdata file

Sample: This is a sample survey with a longitudinal design.

Factors such as the high mobility rate of the 18-20 age group and its relatively low incidence at the household level led to a stratified multi-stage sample design based on the use of the Labour Force Survey sample, drawing from currently active and rotate-out households. Within each household, one person in the target population was pre-selected for YITS. The initial sample size was 29,000 persons.

Mode of data collection: computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI)

Citation: Statistics Canada. Special Surveys Division Youth in transition survey, cycle 1, 2000 : 18-20 year old cohort. [computer file]. Ottawa, ON: Statistics Canada. Special Surveys Division [producer]; Statistics Canada. Data Liberation Initiative [distributor], 2002.

Extent of file: 1 data file (1,000 logical records) and accompanying documentation (1 files: PDF, html and SPSS syntax formats)

Related data: master microdata files are available in Research Data Centres

Notes:

• The only synthetic file available for YITS is for Cycle 1, Cohort B (18-20-year-olds). After Cycle 1, no further synthetic files were created "because they were so little used (and [the Division is] not able to support remote data access to users)." Outside of Cycle 1, Cohort B, researchers can only obtain data either through custom tabulations or through the RDCs.

  As for Cohort A of Cycle 1, this is where it gets complicated. Cohort A refers to the 15-year olds that took part in both YITS and PISA 2000. This YITS cohort has its own survey number for cycle 1 (5058): "The 15 year-old respondents to the Reading Cohort (conducted in 2000) participated in both PISA (record number 5060) and YITS (record number 5058). Starting in 2002, they will be followed up longitudinally by YITS (record number 4435). " Source: <http://stcwww.statcan.ca/english/sdds/4435.htm>

  For the 15 yr old cohort in Cycle 1, the reference year was 2000 for PISA, and "up to 1999" for YITS . So for YITS survey number 5058 (15 yr olds cohort) they mention the year 2000 because it represents the data collection period for both YITS and PISA. For YITS survey number 4435, they show only the reference year for Cycle 1 (1998-99, or "up to 1999" as stated on page 8 of the User's Guide).

• There is no variability in this synthetic data file!