Our Lives, Social Futures and Life Pathways of Young People in Queensland: A Longitudinal Project, 2006-2019 (Waves 1-7)

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Skrbis, Zlatko; Tranter, Bruce; Western, Mark; Smith, Jonathan; Laughland-Booÿ, Jacqueline; Bean, Clive; Parsell, Cameron; Hogan, David, 2020, "Our Lives, Social Futures and Life Pathways of Young People in Queensland: A Longitudinal Project, 2006-2019 (Waves 1-7)", https://doi.org/10.26193/RAR7TH, ADA Dataverse, V1

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Description	The Our Lives Project is a longitudinal study currently administered by the Australian Catholic University. The project seeks to follow up respondents every two years and explores the attitudes and aspirations of young people in Queensland. The project was previously managed by the University of Queensland in Waves 1-3 (from 2006 to 2011) and Monash University in Waves 4-6 (2013-2017). Since Wave 7 (2019) it has been managed by the Australian Catholic University. The project aims to understand how work, study, housing, and relationship pathways emerge and develop from adolescence and into adulthood. It also examines the formation of young people’s changing social, civic and political attitudes and values across this period. Beginning in 2006, the first phase of Our Lives surveyed 7,031 students who were beginning secondary school (age 12/13 years) in 202 schools across all schooling sectors and geographic regions in Queensland. The first follow-up survey (Wave Two) was conducted in 2008, and resulted in a response from 3,649 original sample members (age 14/15 years). Wave Three was conducted in 2010 (age 16/17, n=3,209); Wave Four was conducted in 2013 (age 19/20; n=2,208); Wave 5 took place in 2015 (age 21/22; n=2,158); and Wave 6 occurred in 2017 (age 23/24, n=2,030). The most recent survey (Wave 7) was conducted thirteen years after the study began, in 2019, when respondents were aged 25/26. A total of 2,042 surveys were completed, consisting of 1,928 original sample members and 114 top-up respondents. This is a complete data file for all 7 Waves.
Subject	Social Sciences
Keyword	Attitudes, Behaviour, Lifestyles, Careers, Education, Secondary education, Family, Values, Youth
Related Publication	OurLives, Publications, Journal Articles
License/Data Use Agreement	Custom Dataset Terms

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Persistent Identifier	doi:10.26193/RAR7TH
Publication Date	2020-10-30
Title	Our Lives, Social Futures and Life Pathways of Young People in Queensland: A Longitudinal Project, 2006-2019 (Waves 1-7)
Alternative URL	https://ourlives.org.au/
Other Identifier	Australian Data Archive: 01471
Author	Skrbis, Zlatko (Australian Catholic University) - ORCID: 0000-0002-9797-7699 Tranter, Bruce (University of Tasmania) - ORCID: 0000-0002-0649-6065 Western, Mark (University of Queensland) - ORCID: 0000-0001-5399-6911 Smith, Jonathan (Australian Catholic University) - ORCID: 0000-0002-6415-8179 Laughland-Booÿ, Jacqueline (Australian Catholic University) - ORCID: 0000-0002-9617-1503 Bean, Clive (Queensland University of Technology) - ORCID: 0000-0002-9413-272X Parsell, Cameron (University of Queensland) - ORCID: 0000-0002-0785-3896 Hogan, David (University of Queensland)
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Description	The Our Lives Project is a longitudinal study currently administered by the Australian Catholic University. The project seeks to follow up respondents every two years and explores the attitudes and aspirations of young people in Queensland. The project was previously managed by the University of Queensland in Waves 1-3 (from 2006 to 2011) and Monash University in Waves 4-6 (2013-2017). Since Wave 7 (2019) it has been managed by the Australian Catholic University. The project aims to understand how work, study, housing, and relationship pathways emerge and develop from adolescence and into adulthood. It also examines the formation of young people’s changing social, civic and political attitudes and values across this period. Beginning in 2006, the first phase of Our Lives surveyed 7,031 students who were beginning secondary school (age 12/13 years) in 202 schools across all schooling sectors and geographic regions in Queensland. The first follow-up survey (Wave Two) was conducted in 2008, and resulted in a response from 3,649 original sample members (age 14/15 years). Wave Three was conducted in 2010 (age 16/17, n=3,209); Wave Four was conducted in 2013 (age 19/20; n=2,208); Wave 5 took place in 2015 (age 21/22; n=2,158); and Wave 6 occurred in 2017 (age 23/24, n=2,030). The most recent survey (Wave 7) was conducted thirteen years after the study began, in 2019, when respondents were aged 25/26. A total of 2,042 surveys were completed, consisting of 1,928 original sample members and 114 top-up respondents. This is a complete data file for all 7 Waves.
Subject	Social Sciences
Keyword	Attitudes (APAIS) http://vocabularyserver.com/apais/index.php Behaviour (APAIS) Lifestyles (APAIS) Careers (APAIS) Education (APAIS) Secondary education (APAIS) Family (APAIS) Values (APAIS) Youth (APAIS)
Topic Classification	Australian Studies Longitudinal Studies Social attitudes, values and behaviour
Related Publication	OurLives, Publications, Journal Articles url: https://ourlives.org.au/publications/
Language	English
Producer	Skrbis, Zlatko (Australian Catholic University) Western, Mark (University of Queensland) Tranter, Bruce (University of Tasmania) Hogan, David (University of Queensland) Bean, Clive (Queensland University of Technology) Parsell, Cameron (University of Queensland) Smith, Jonathan (Australian Catholic University) Laughland-Booÿ, Jacqueline (Australian Catholic University)
Contributor	Funder : Australian Research Council Funder : Australian Catholic University Data Manager : Australian Catholic University Funder : Monash University Funder : The University of Queensland Data Collector : Wallis Market and Social Research (Waves 5-7) Data Collector : The Social Research Centre (Waves 2-4) Data Collector : The University of Queensland (Wave 1) Data Curator : Andrea Findlay
Funding Information	ARC-Discovery Project: DP0557667 ARC-Discovery Project: DP0878781 ARC-Discovery Project: DP130101490 ARC-Discovery Project: DP160100360
Distributor	Australian Data Archive (The Australian National University) (ADA) https://ada.edu.au/
Distribution Date	2020-10-30
Depositor	Smith, Jonathan (Australian Catholic University)
Deposit Date	2020-08-27
Time Period	Start Date: 2006-06-15 ; End Date: 2020-01-15
Date of Collection	Start Date: 2006-06-15 ; End Date: 2020-01-15
Data Type	Survey data
Series	Our Lives, Social Futures and Life Pathways of Young People in Queensland: The Social Futures and Life Pathways (“Our Lives”) project is a longitudinal study of young people from Queensland, Australia, who began high school in 2006 when they were aged 12/13 years. By tracking this cohort over time, the project assesses the impact of social, political and economic developments on educational, workforce, partnering, family and housing transitions in early adulthood. It enhances scholarly understanding and public policy formation in these domains by monitoring stability and change in the values, aspirations, health and well-being of young people as these transitions take place. The project combines large scale survey research with in-depth qualitative interviewing to assess how global uncertainty and social traditions, institutions and inequalities structure the life pathways of young people in Australia.
Software	SPSS, Version: 24.0 Stata, Version: 12.0 SAS, Version: 9.4
Related Material	Our Lives Methodology; Our Lives Technical Reports; Our Lives Survey Instruments
Related Dataset	Our Lives, Social Futures and Life Pathways of Young People in Queensland Datasets; Our Lives Asylum Seekers Dataset

Geospatial Metadata

Geographic Coverage	Australia
Geographic Unit	ABS Statistical Area level 4 (SA4) (Waves 1-3, 5-7); State (Wave 7); ABS Geographic Remoteness Area (Waves 1-7)

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Unit of Analysis	Individual
Universe	Adolescents, who were in secondary school, aged 12-13, and living in Queensland in year 2006
Time Method	Longitudinal/panel/cohort study
Frequency	Biennial
Sampling Procedure	Simple random sample (Wave 1) No sampling (total universe) (Waves 2-7)
Collection Mode	Self-completion (Waves 1-3) Web-based self-completion (Waves 2-7) Telephone interview (Waves 3-7)
Type of Research Instrument	Structured
Weighting	The data file includes poststratification weights that use the ABS data to adjust for the actual population of male and female students enrolled in each school sector in Queensland for the relevant grade/year.
Cleaning Operations	The data were checked by the archive for missing variable and value labels, out of range values and wild codes, logical inconsistencies, and confidentiality.
Response Rate	The overall within-school response rate for Wave 1 was 34% (7031 respondents). In Wave 2, the overall retention rate (interviews as a per cent of selections) was 58% (3,649 out of 7031 original sample members). In Wave 3, survey responses were received from 58% (n=3,209) of the original Wave 1 cohort. In Wave 4, from 41% (n=2,208) of the original Wave 1 cohort for whom valid contact information was available. In Wave 5, survey responses were received from 57% of all participants who had participated in more than one survey wave and who had valid contact information (2,097 out of 3,708). In Wave 6, survey responses were received by 58% of the target sample (n=2,030) with all previous respondents with valid contact information. In Wave 7, there were 1,928 completions from original cohort members and 114 top-up sample completions. This represented a response rate of 63% amongst the remaining cohort who still had valid contact information (n=3,042), and 95% retention of the previous Wave 6 sample (n=2,030). Overall, 27% of the original Wave 1 sample participated in Wave 7.

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