School-to-Work Transition Survey 2015
Serbia, 2015
Identification
SRB_2015_SWTS_v01_M
School-to-Work Transition Survey 2015
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Serbia | SRB |
Other Household Survey [hh/oth]
The School-to-Work Transition Survey as an ILO tool was conceptualized in 2003 within the Gender Promotion Programme. The Programme designed a set of generic questionnaires that provides a useful checklist of questions for conducting structured surveys to collect information on youth.
The SWTS is a unique survey instrument that generates relevant labour market information on young people aged 15 to 29 years, including longitudinal information on transitions within the labour market. The SWTS thus serves as a unique tool for demonstrating the increasingly tentative and indirect paths to decent and productive employment that today’s young men and women are facing.
The School-to-Work Transition Survey serves a number of purposes. First, it detects the individual characteristics of young people that determine labour market disadvantage. This, in turn, is instrumental to the development of policy response to prevent the emergence of risk factors, as well as measures to remedy those factors that negatively affect the transition to decent work. Second, it identifies the features of youth labour demand, which help determine mismatches that can be addressed by policy interventions. Third, in countries where the labour market information system is not developed, it serves as an instrument to generate reliable data for policy-making and for monitoring progress.
The objective of the SWTS is to collect in-depth information concerning the labour market situation of young men and women and to quantify the relative ease or difficulty of labour market entry of young people as they exit school. The analysis of data should reveal strengths and weaknesses in the youth labour market and point to the main challenges to be addressed by policy-makers through the formulation of youth employment/development policies and programmes.
The school-to-work transition is defined as the passage of a young person (aged 15 to 29 years) from the end of schooling to the first regular or satisfactory job.
Sample survey data [ssd]
Version
Version 01
2015
Scope
The scope of the study includes:
- Personal data, information about the family and the household;
- Financial position;
- Health status;
- Education, training, work experience, aspirations;
- Economic activity;
- Job search;
- Economic inactivity.
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia | |
| International Labour Office | International Labour Organization (ILO) |
Sampling
The sampling frame for the SWTS can be one of two types. The first type is a list of all members of the target population, while the second type is a method of selecting any member of this population. Sampling frames for the general population can be electoral rolls, street directories, telephone directories and customer lists from utilities which are used by almost all households, such as water, electricity, sewerage, and so on. It is preferable to use a list that is the most accurate, complete and up to date.
The nature of this list is expected to differ from country to country. Some countries use a list of households, while other countries use a list of people. For the SWTS, a list of households is more useful than a list of people. This list allows the analysis to link transition to household characteristics, such as household income, for example.
National statistical offices are typically the best source of the information needed for a sampling frame since they collect socio-economic and demographic data through periodic household-based sample surveys, such as labour force surveys, living standards measurement surveys, household budget and expenditure surveys, and demographic and health surveys.
The SWTS is based on a sample, as opposed to collecting data from the entire target population. This sample is selected according to established principles. These are:
- the sample must be representative of the entire population; and
- one must be able to extrapolate inferences, within known and acceptable margins of error, from the sample to the wider population.
Survey instrument
The questionnaire is designed to gather general information – personal, family and household information (section B) and education, activity history and aspirations (section C) – from the respondent and then information relevant to the respondent's current economic activity, whether still in school, unemployed, employed or outside of the labour force and not in school.
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2015 | 2015 |
Depositor information
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Poverty - GP | World Bank |
Data Access
Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:
- the Identification of the Primary Investigator
- the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation)
- the survey reference number
- the source and date of download
Example:
Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia, International Labour Office. Serbia School-to-Work Transition Survey 2015 (SWTS), Ref. SRB_2015_SWTS_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from [URL] on [date].
Disclaimer and copyrights
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
Metadata production
DDI_SRB_2015_SWTS_v01_M_WB
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Poverty - GP | World Bank | Documentation of the study |
| Development Data Group | World Bank | Revision of study documentation |
2016-10-04
Metadata version
Version 01 (October 2016)