Abstract
The German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) was set up to provide an empirical basis for longitudinal analyses of individuals’ educational careers and competencies and how they unfold over the life course in relation to family, formal educational institutions, and private life. Educational developments and decisions over the life span are being tracked in six starting cohorts as a foundation for characterizing and analyzing educational processes. These six starting cohorts include newborns, Kindergarten children, secondary school children (5th and 9th grade), first-year undergraduate students, and adults. Because access to the target population in several starting cohorts was gained via educational institutions such as Kindergartens and schools, multistage sampling approaches were implemented that reflect the clustered structure of the target populations. Samples in individual contexts, such as those in the adult and newborn cohorts, were established via register-based stratified cluster approaches. This chapter briefly reviews the designs of the implemented sampling strategies for each established starting cohort and provides information on the levels of attrition in the panel development.
Zusammenfassung
Die Forschungsintention des Nationalen Bildungspanels zielt auf die Bereitstellung der empirischen Grundlagen für eine fundierte längsschnittliche Analyse individueller Bildungsverläufe ab. Insbesondere steht die Abbildung individueller Kompetenzentwicklungen, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des persönlichen und familiären Hintergrundes, sowie der Beziehung zu formalen Bildungsinstitutionen im Vordergrund. Zur Charakterisierung und Analyse von Bildungsentwicklungen und -entscheidungen über den gesamten Bildungsverlauf wurden bisher sechs Startkohorten etabliert. Diese Startkohorten sind jeweils als Zufallsstichproben aus den Kohorten der Neugeborenen, Kindern in Kindergärten, Kindern in der Sekundarstufe an allgemeinbildenden Schulen (fünfte und neunte Jahrgangsstufe), Erstsemesterstudierenden und Erwachsenen gebildet worden. Da für etliche dieser Startkohorten des Nationalen Bildungspanels der Zugang zu den Zielpopulationen im institutionellen Kontext von Kindergärten und Schulen erfolgt, beruhen die entsprechenden Stichprobenziehungsverfahren auf einer mehrstufigen Zufallsauswahl, durch welche die institutionellen Gegebenheiten beim Feldzugang berücksichtigt werden können. Für Stichproben, bei denen die Erhebungen im individuellen Kontext stattfinden, erfolgt die Zufallsauswahl im Rahmen von registergestützten Klumpenstichproben. Die zur Anwendung gekommenen Stichprobenziehungsverfahren werden kurz dargestellt und Informationen zum bisherigen Panelverlauf gegeben.
Strategien der Stichprobenziehung im Rahmen des Nationalen Bildungspanels: Design und Panelverlauf.
When finalizing the manuscript we were struck by the sudden and unexpected death of Susanne Rässler. We mourn for a highly reputed scientist, colleague, mentor, and a most generous human being. With her engagement and her international scientific reputation she led the NEPS working unit “Sampling, weighting, and imputation” and thereby ensured the long-term visibility of this essential part of the NEPS.
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Notes
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The participation rate is calculated based on the number of students who were assigned to be surveyed in the corresponding wave.
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In Wave 4 and Wave 6, the entire cohort was not assigned to be surveyed. Here, only students who had left their regular schools and had participated in the previous wave were surveyed.
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Aßmann, C. et al. (2019). Sampling Designs of the National Educational Panel Study: Setup and Panel Development. In: Blossfeld, HP., Roßbach, HG. (eds) Education as a Lifelong Process. Edition ZfE, vol 3. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-23162-0_3
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