The Commonwealth Department of Education commissioned the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) to assess the value and implications of eight enhancements to the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY).

The objective of LSAY is to track young Australians as they move from school into further study, work and other destinations to provide a meaningful dataset through which to understand youth transitions. Enhancements to LSAY are considered in this paper in the context of continuing to enable researchers to track young people over time and examine relationships between the variables that impact youth transitions.