TREE (Transitions from Education to Employment): A Swiss multi-cohort survey

Authors

  • Andrés Gomensoro TREE survey, University of Bern
  • Thomas Meyer TREE survey, University of Bern

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14301/llcs.v8i2.424

Keywords:

Education, Occupation, Pathways, Cohort survey, Longitudinal research, PISA, Switzerland

Abstract

TREE (Transitions from Education to Employment) is a Swiss nationwide longitudinal study that follows two cohorts of compulsory school leavers throughout their transitions from education to employment and middle adulthood. To date, the first cohort survey (initial N=6,343) based on the Swiss PISA 2000 sample has covered a 14-year period from age 15 to 29 (nine follow-up surveys). The second cohort survey started in 2016 (with one follow-up survey in spring 2017 so far; initial N=9,762) and is based on a large national representative sample of students (N=22,378) who sat a mathematics test at the end of the ninth grade (approximately 15 years old). TREE is designed to provide comprehensive data for the analysis of post-compulsory education, employment and other pathways (e.g. family and household situation, income/financial situation, critical life events, social integration and participation, psycho-social personal characteristics, health and wellbeing). As a social science infrastructure project of national and international importance, its data is freely available to the scientific community at large. This paper provides an overview of the TREE study with a specific focus on the latest data release (September 2016) for the first TREE cohort.

Author Biographies

Andrés Gomensoro, TREE survey, University of Bern

TREE researcher

Thomas Meyer, TREE survey, University of Bern

Co-head of TREE project

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Published

2017-04-27