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Title: Federal Data on Educational Attainment and the Transition to Work
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Pallas, Aaron M. |
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Federal Data on Educational Attainment and the Transition to Work In: Integrating Federal Statistics on Children: Report of a Workshop. Committee on National Statistics and Board on Children and Families, ed. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1995: pp. 122-155. Also: http://www.nap.edu/books/0309052491/html/ Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: National Academy Press Keyword(s): Children, Well-Being; Educational Attainment; Overview, Child Assessment Data In this paper, I examine federal data on an important dimension of children's well-being: children's progress through school and into the labor force. A key challenge faced by all societies is the task of providing children with the personal qualities that enable them to become productive adult members of society...I argue that the analysis of the ways in which American youth negotiate the transition to adulthood reflects an important tension between individual trajectories and the role of social institutions. Institutionally based data are often not reflective of the set of pathways that individuals travel as they become adults. Conversely, studies of individuals independent of the organizational and institutional contexts in which they are situated may not reveal the important role that schools and employers play in structuring educational attainment and the transition into the labor force. I suggest, therefore, a need for a set of data collection mechanisms that balance data on individuals and on institutions. |
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Pallas, Aaron M. "Federal Data on Educational Attainment and the Transition to Work" In: Integrating Federal Statistics on Children: Report of a Workshop. Committee on National Statistics and Board on Children and Families, ed. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1995: pp. 122-155.
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