Activity Agreements National Implementation 2012-13

This paper provides a summary of reported participation in Activity Agreements during the second year of the national roll-out of the programme (1 April 2012 to 31 March 2013). The paper outlines characteristics and outcomes for young people that have either completed or dropped out of an Activity Agreement during this period.


Annex 1: Data Limitations and Quality Assurance

  • Coverage - We have received data from all 32 Scottish LAs.
  • Reporting Period - Data for 2012-13 submitted after 31 May 2013 or where the reporting period is unclear has been excluded from this analysis.
  • Valid sample - to be included in the final 'valid sample' individuals must have signed up and then either completed or dropped out of their Activity Agreement between 1 April 2012 and 31 March 2013. Individuals who were referred but didn't sign up or who are currently undertaking an Activity Agreement have been excluded.
  • Quality Assurance - These data are not 100% clean. We have excluded invalid data, missing cases and duplicates, but the data were submitted manually by external delivery partners and are therefore subject to errors which cannot be identified.
  • Duplicate Cases - where duplicate cases were identified through the quality assurance process, these have been excluded from the analysis.
  • Missing Data - there is a very small number of data missing on destinations (10 of the 2,266 records - 0.4%). Destinations data are presented here as a percentage of the total sample, with the blank records included with the records where destinations were recorded as "unknown".
Construction of Valid Sample for analyses - full dataset 2012-13
Cases (n) Cases (n)
Total cases (returns made) 2,589
Excluded - not offered/not signed up/still on programme. 250 2,339
Excluded - duplicate records 73 2,266
Final Valid Sample 2,266

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