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Teenage mothers and young people with special needs : evidence from the Education Maintenance Allowance Pilots Database
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posted on 2006-10-30, 14:08 authored by Kim Perren, Sue MiddletonThis report uses quantitative data collected as part of the evaluation of the Education
Maintenance Allowance (EMA) Pilots to follow the life course trajectories of two groups of
vulnerable young people as they aged from 16 to 18. Part A investigates the experiences of
young women who had a child, or were pregnant, when they were first interviewed a few
months after finishing compulsory education. Part B outlines the transitions of young people
who had special educational needs and/or a health problem that limited their daily lives.
The EMA evaluation was designed to yield a random sample of two cohorts of young people
in ten pilot areas and 11 control areas. The two cohorts finished compulsory education in the
summers of 1999 and 2000 respectively and were interviewed three times at yearly intervals,
that is, when they were approximately 16, 17 and 18 years old. About a quarter of the young
people in the full sample were ineligible for EMA on the grounds that the income of their
parents exceeded £30,000 a year. These relatively affluent young people were excluded from
this report for two reasons. Firstly, this facilitates an exploration of how EMA affects the
choices made by vulnerable young people. Secondly, the two vulnerable groups tended to
have parents with low or moderate incomes; consequently, the removal of high-income
households increases the similarities between vulnerable and non-vulnerable young people.
This selection process resulted in a sample of 7415 young women and 7319 young men. This
sample has been weighted to be representative of all EMA eligible young people (from these
cohorts) in the pilot and control areas.
In both parts of the report, the analysis commences with a retrospective look at the Year 11
experiences of the vulnerable group and compares their situation to that of their ‘nonvulnerable’
counterparts (respectively, young women who were neither mothers nor pregnant
(Part A) and young people who had neither special needs nor a limiting health condition (Part
B)). This is followed by an account of their economic activity a few months after the end
compulsory education. Finally, the report concentrates on the experiences of young people
who remained in the study until the age of 18.
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PERREN, K. and MIDDLETON, S., 2005. Teenage mothers and young people with special needs : evidence from the Education Maintenance Allowance Pilots Database. Department for Education and Skills research report ; 629. Loughborough : Loughborough UniversityPublisher
© Loughborough UniversityPublication date
2005Notes
This report is also available electronically at: www.dfes.gov.uk/research/data/uploadfiles/RR629.pdfISBN
1844784371Book series
Department for Education and Skills research report;629Language
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