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标题：A review of educational attainment measures for social survey research
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作者：Roxanne Connelly ; Vernon Gayle ; Paul S. Lambert 等
期刊名称：Methodological Innovations
印刷版ISSN：2059-7991
电子版ISSN：2059-7991
出版年度：2016
卷号：9
期号：9
页码：1-11
DOI：10.1177/2059799116638001
出版社：SAGE Publications
摘要：This article is a review of issues associated with measuring education and using educational measures in social science research. The review is orientated towards researchers who undertake secondary analyses of large-scale micro-level social science datasets. The article begins with an outline of important context, which impinges upon the measurement of education. The United Kingdom is the focus of this review, but similar issues apply to other nation states. We provide a critical introduction to the main approaches to measuring education in social survey research, which include measuring years of education, using categorical qualification based measures and scaling approaches. We advocate the use of established education measures to better facilitate comparability and replication. We conclude by making the recommendation that researchers place careful thought into which educational measure they select, and that researchers should routinely engage in appropriate sensitivity analyses.
关键词：Measuring education; social surveys; quantitative data analysis; UK