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Connelly, Roxanne, Gayle, Vernon and Lambert, Paul (2016) A review of educational attainment measures for social survey research. Methodological Innovations, 9 . doi:10.1177/2059799116638001 ISSN 2059-7991.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2059799116638001
Abstract
This article is a review of issues associated with measuring education and using educational measures in social science research. The review is orientated towards researchers who undertake secondary analyses of large-scale micro-level social science datasets. The article begins with an outline of important context, which impinges upon the measurement of education. The United Kingdom is the focus of this review, but similar issues apply to other nation states. We provide a critical introduction to the main approaches to measuring education in social survey research, which include measuring years of education, using categorical qualification based measures and scaling approaches. We advocate the use of established education measures to better facilitate comparability and replication. We conclude by making the recommendation that researchers place careful thought into which educational measure they select, and that researchers should routinely engage in appropriate sensitivity analyses.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology L Education > L Education (General) |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Social sciences -- Education -- Great Britain -- Research, Educational surveys , Social surveys, Quantitative research | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Methodological Innovations | ||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||
ISSN: | 2059-7991 | ||||||
Official Date: | 19 April 2016 | ||||||
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Volume: | 9 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/2059799116638001 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 15 March 2016 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 8 June 2016 |
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