The SPEAR Centre is part of a consortium with the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) that won a major contract to administer the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) Analytical Program from 2007. The SPEAR Centre’s contribution to this program includes the production of two research papers per year. The contract covers three financial years: 2007-08 to 2009-10.

For more information about LSAY see http://www.lsay.edu.au/index.html

Project Title - Management and Research Services for Certain Aspects of the Longitudinal Survey of Australian Youth Program

Project Workplan:

1. The effect of completion of Year 12 on later education and labour market outcomes.
   
   
2. How does student income support eligibility affect education and training participation and course completion by young Australians?
   
   
3. School completion: what we learn from different measures of family background.
   
   
4. Student study plans and their realizations: the role of disadvantage.
   
   
5. Youth labour markets: in good and bad times