Education (Collateral): School Attendance and Grades - Collateral Follow-up
This measure appears in the following time-points: Collat12, Collat24, Collat36.
Related Construct
Description of Measure
The section is comprised of a set of questions regarding school attendance and history of suspension and expulsion.
The following variable was computed for this measure:
- Number of days attended school [C#Dem35r]
The following items are available for this measure:
- Whether the subject was attending school regularly at the time of the interview [C#schnow]
- If not attending, did the subject drop out of school [C#Dropd]
- If not attending, when was the last time they went (in days) [C#C1Q180_NDay]
- Whether the subject was enrolled in school over the past year [C#Dem26]
- Last time subject went to school at the school they most recently attended [C#SchLt]
- Average number of days missed per month over the past year [C#Dem35]
- Whether subject was suspended over the past year [C#Dem30]
- Number of times suspended over the past year [C#Dem31]
- Whether the subject was expelled over the past year [C#Dem33]
- Number of times expelled over the past year [C#Dem34]
References
- Eccles, J.S., Wigfield, A., & Schiefele, U., (1998). Motivation to succeed. In W. Damon (Series Ed.) and N. Eisenberg (Vol. Ed.), Handbook of child psychology (5th ed., Vol. III, pp. 1017-1095). New York: Wiley.
- Cernkovich, S. and Giordano, P. (1992). School bonding, race and delinquency. Criminology, 30(2), 261-291.