Version 12.0.0
doi:10.5157/NEPS:SC4:12.0.0
Here you find information on the former versions 11.0.0, 10.0.0, 9.1.1, 9.1.0, 9.0.0, 7.0.0, 6.0.0, 4.0.0, 1.1.0 and 1.0.0.
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Summary
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The lower secondary level plays a connecting role between elementary school and the general or vocational upper secondary level (or directly entering the job market). Nevertheless, important questions could not be clearly and conclusively answered yet because of the lack of appropriate data. This pertains, for example, to the type of school chosen, to switches to another type of school, or to the grade repetition but also to the central issue of paths through lower secondary level and the transition into upper secondary level.
In this study of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), representatively selected students who attend regular or special needs schools and are willing to participate are questioned and tested in annual waves of studies. For students of the starting cohort of ninth graders the first survey was carried out in fall/winter 2010. Additional surveys scheduled for spring 2011 and spring 2012 are target at students who will be dropping out of school after grade 9 or 10 but who will remain within an educational institution. In general, the plan is to follow up students within the school track in which they were sampled until they leave this school or the general school system. Data will be collected on the educational paths of students attending regular schools as well as on students attending special needs schools. After leaving school, these students will be further questioned and tested individually outside the educational institution. The testing and questioning of individuals requiring special education is a challenge because only rudimentary experiences with such measures have been made so far. In addition to the questioning and testing of students, the questioning of context persons such as parents, teachers, and school headmasters is planned. Competence tests cover several domains: language (spelling, reading, and listening comprehension in German, knowledge of first language and English in students with migration background), mathematics, sciences, and metacompetencies (ICT competence and cognitive problem-solving ability).
The central questions of this study include the development of students' competencies, the conditions and prerequisites of educational processes, and possible individual consequences, such as career choice, labor market returns or simply personal satisfaction. The survey instrument includes questions about conditions, prerequisites, and benefits of education, as well as questions on support from parents, family background, school atmosphere, learning strategies, afternoon activities, vocational training, and, if applicable, also about migration history and linguistic context. The teachers' and school management questionnaires at the participating regular and special needs schools collect, for example, data on class size, composition, and school equipment but also questions about teaching in general. One further issue concerns training offered to support students at the start of their careers, such as training for job interviews.
Principal Investigator
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Cordula Artelt, Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, Bamberg (Germany)
Citation
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Researchers working with data from the National Educational Panel Study are obliged to indicate the use of the data in their publications by citing the data version (DOI) as follows:
NEPS Network. (2021). National Educational Panel Study, Scientific Use File of Starting Cohort Grade 9. Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi), Bamberg. https://doi.org/10.5157/NEPS:SC4:12.0.0
In addition, the NEPS study is to be referred to at an appropriate place and the reference article to be listed in the bibliography:
This paper uses data from the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS; see Blossfeld & Roßbach, 2019). The NEPS is carried out by the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi, Germany) in cooperation with a nationwide network.
Blossfeld, H.-P. & Roßbach, H.-G. (Eds.). (2019). Education as a lifelong process: The German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS). Edition ZfE (2nd ed.). Springer VS.
According to the NEPS data usage contract (§9), an immediate, unsolicited notification regarding every type of publication based on NEPS data is required to be sent to LIfBi via e-mail at fdz@lifbi.de. If possible, a link to or an electronic version of the publication is to be provided as part of this notification.
Availability
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Data and documents are released for academic research. This release is uniquely identified by one DOI. All data sets of this release are available in different languages (English, German), formats (Stata, SPSS), and degrees of anynomization (download, remote access, and on-site).
Documentation
Below you will find detailed additional information regarding the surveys, instruments and data from the Starting Cohort Grade 9. This documentation refers to the version 12.0.0 and will be updated successively. In case of questions, simply contact the Research Data Center.
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| Data Manual (more) |
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The data manual is intended to assist your work with the Scientific Use Files. The provided document refers to the data version 1.1.0. An updated version will be made available to you in the near future. (PDF-en)
- Variable type of school (generated) (PDF-en)
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| Release Notes (more) |
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The release notes entail any main changes in comparison to prior versions. Herein, known bugs and possible solutions regarding the most current data version are noted.
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| Study Overview (more) |
PDF-de PDF-en |
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The study documentation provides information at a glance regarding the course of the survey. For each survey, target and context persons are defined as well as case numbers and field time frames.
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| Survey Instruments (more) |
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The survey instruments are made available to you in the form of SUF and field versions. The field versions consist of the originally deployed PAPI questionnaires as well as the programming templates for CATI and CAPI interviews. The SUF versions entail additional information, such as the variable names and labels found in the Scientific Use Files as well as the corresponding scheme options. We recommend the SUF version, when working with the data. The ZIP archive contains all of the documents listed below.
In our Downloadcenter you can also view other survey instruments that don't yet have a published Scientific Use File. In order to access the instruments, logging in to the webstie is required. If you are not registered as a NEPS data user and therefore don't have the necessary login credentials, simply contact the Research Data Center.
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| Information on Competence Tests (more) |
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General overviews and information:
- Competence measures in Starting Cohorts 1 to 6 and variable naming conventions (PDF-en)
- Scaling model and notes on using data from competence tests (PDF-en)
- Linking the data of competence tests across different measurement occasions (PDF-en)
Wave-specific descriptions:
Usually for each domain there is a brief description of the construct with sample items, a description of the data, and of the psychometric properties of the test. In the table you will find each of the documents that can be downloaded. (The ZIP archive contains all of the documents listed below. Therein documents in regard to the competence domains as well as overview documents can be found.)
| Domains |
Constructs, test processes and sample items |
Data, psychometric properties and scaling |
| Domain-overlapping competences |
| General cognitive basic skills regular schools |
PDF-en |
| General cognitive basic skills special schools |
based on data version 1.0.0: PDF-de,
based on data version 10.0.0: PDF-en |
| FAIR: Concentration Abilities (FA) |
W1: PDF-en |
| Domain-specific competences |
| Lingustic competence German: Reading (RE) |
PDF-en |
W2, regular schools: PDF-en,
W2, special schools: PDF-en,
W7: PDF-en,
W10, regular schools: PDF-en,
W10, special schools: PDF-en |
| Lingustic competence German: Reading speed (RS) |
PDF-en |
| Linguistic competence German: listening comprehension, vocabulary (VO) |
PDF pending |
| Mathematical competences (MA) |
PDF-en |
W1: PDF-en, W7: PDF-en,
W10, regular schools: PDF-en,
W10, special schools: PDF-en |
| Scientific competences (SC) |
PDF-en |
W1: PDF-en, W5: PDF-en |
| Listening comprehension Russian (NR) and Turkish (NT) |
PDF-en |
W2: PDF-en |
| Metacompentencies |
| Technological and information literacy (IC) |
PDF-en |
W1: PDF-en, PDF-en,
W7: PDF-en |
| Declarative metacognition (MD) |
PDF-en |
| Procedural metacognition (MP) |
PDF-en |
| Stage-specific competences |
Lingustic competence English:
Reading (EF) |
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W3: PDF-en, W7: PDF-en |
| Scientific thinking (ST) |
PDF-en |
W7: PDF-en |
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| Semantic Data Structure File (more) |
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The semantic data structure file does not contain data. It does, however, contain the metadata found in the Scientific Use Files (e.g., variable names,variable labels and scheme options). It is useful for exploring the data structure without needing any actual data. The ZIP-File contains German and English versions for Stata and SPSS.
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| Codebook (more) |
PDF-de PDF-en |
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Sorted by data sets, the codebook entails frequency counts of all the variables including the corresponding labels. The on-site version of the SUF serves as the basis for the codebook.
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| Glossary (more) |
PDF-en |
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The NEPS Glossary provides information about special terminology related to the German educational and occupational system as well as the NEPS-specific terms and abbreviations that are frequently used throughout the NEPS study.
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| Samples, Weights, Nonresponse (more) |
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The NEPS Survey Paper No 2 provides information on sample stratification and the principles of constructing weights for the waves 1 to 6 of the Scientific Use File: PDF-en
- Technical Report regarding the use of weights for waves 7 to 9: PDF-en
- Technical Report regarding the use of weights for wave 10: PDF-en
- Technical Report regarding the use of weights for wave 11: PDF-en
- Technical Report regarding the use of weights for wave 12: PDF-en
NEPS also provides replication weights in order to calculate the estimation of the variance by using the balanced repeated replication method: PDF-en
The NEPS Survey Paper No. 89 documents the relevant sample parameters for the Corona survey from May/June 2020, describes details on selectivity and presents the response propensity models for participation in this additional survey and the weighting procedure including post-stratification: PDF-en
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| Report on the Edition of Spell Data (more) |
PDF-de PDF-en |
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The report documents the implemented data editions with regard to rejected school, vocational preparation, and vocational training spells in waves 3 and 4.
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| Generated Variables on Education (more) |
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The report gives a comprehensive overview of the underlying derivation processes for the derived educational variables. These are ISCED-97, CASMIN and Years of Education.
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| Regional data (more) |
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Regional structural information can be merged to our data on-site. Regional data is available from Microm and infas. These documentations describe all regional levels, structural characteristics, and how to use the data.
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| Merging Matrix (more) |
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The Merging Matrix provides an overview of how to link information from different datasets noting the respective relevant identificator variables.
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| Anonymization Procedures (more) |
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This document describes the used anonymization procedures of the respective data. Here you are also given an overview regarding the opportunity to access sensitive data (Download, Remote, On-Site).
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| Field Reports (more) |
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The field reports document the overall data-collection process executed by the survey institute, including the preparation and execution of the survey, the interviewer selection and deployment, tracking and providing incentives to the target persons, the intial contact and the realization of the interviews and tests, etc. The field reports are suppied by the respective survey institutes and are only available in German.
- Wave 1:
CATI main survey: PDF-de
PAPI main survey in regular schools: PDF-de
PAPI main survey in special needs schools: PDF-de
- Wave 2:
PAPI main survey in regular schools: PDF-de
PAPI main survey in special needs schools: PDF-de
- Wave 3:
PAPI main survey in regular schools: PDF-de
PAPI main survey in special needs schools: PDF-de
CATI/CAPI main survey of graduates: PDF-de
CATI/CAPI main survey of the BA sample of graduates: PDF-de
- Wave 4:
CATI main survey of graduates: PDF-de
CATI main survey of the BA sample of graduates: PDF-de
- Wave 5:
PAPI main survey in regular school: PDF-de
CATI/CAPI/CAWI main survey of graduates: PDF-de
CATI/CAPI/CAWI main survey of individual follow-up students: PDF-de
CATI main survey of parents: PDF-de
- Wave 6:
CATI main survey of graduates: PDF-de
- Wave 7:
PAPI main survey in regular school: PDF-de
CATI/CAPI/CAWI main survey of individual follow-up students: PDF-de
CATI/CAPI/CAWI main survey of graduates: PDF-de
CATI main survey of parents: PDF-de
- Wave 8:
PAPI main survey in regular school: PDF-de
CATI/CAPI/CAWI main survey: PDF-de
- Wave 9:
CATI/CAPI/CAWI main survey: PDF-de
Summary for former students with special needs: PDF-de
- Wave 10:
CATI/CAPI/CAWI main survey: PDF-de
- Wave 11:
CATI/CAPI/CAWI main survey: PDF-de
- Wave 12:
CATI/CAPI/CAWI main survey: PDF-de
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| Interviewer Manuals (more) |
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The interview manuals is the basis for the interviewers' training before the computed-supported interviews were conducted. In particular, it describes the interview process as well as the content of each of the questionnaire modules.
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