The National longitudinal survey of youth: 1979 cohort at 25

Monthly Labor Review

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 3-7

  Pierret, Charles ^a  

^a Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics   (United States)

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1. Under special arrangement, researchers can access certain geographic information about respondents in order to link environmental variables to the records of those respondents. Personally identifying information, however, is never available to researchers; it is protected by law through the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act.
2. Much of the summary information that follows can be found on the NLSY79 Web site at http://www.bls.gov/nls/nlsy79.htm or in the NLSY79 User's Guide. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2001).
3. For a more thorough discussion of this issue, see Harry A. Krashinsky, "Do Marital Status and Computer Usage Really Change the Wage Structure?" Journal of Human Resources, summer 2004, pp. 774-91.
4. Two subsamples comprising roughly 3,000 respondents were dropped from the sample in 1985 and 1991 to reduce costs. The current sample size is 9,964 initial respondents, of which 346 were deceased at the time of the 2002 survey.
5. Randall J. Olsen, "The problem of respondent attrition: survey methodology is key," this issue, pp. 63-70.
6. The data are available at no cost on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/ nls/nlsy79.htm.
7. James A. Walker, "Antecedents and predecessors of the NLSY79: paving the course," this issue, pp. 8-14.
8. Kenneth I. Wolpin, "Education data in the NLSY79: a premiere research tool," this issue, pp. 15-20.
9. Julie A. Yates, "The transition from school to work: education and work experiences," this issue, pp. 21-32.
10. Audrey Light, "Job mobility and wage growth: evidence from the NLSY79," this issue, pp. 33-39.
11. Robert W. Fairlie, "Self-employment, entrepreneurship, and the NLSY79," this issue, pp. 40-47.
12. Harley J. Frazis and James R. Spletzer, "Worker training: what we've learned from the NLSY79," this issue, pp. 48-58.
13. Lawrence L. Wu and Jui-Chung Allen Li, "Children of the NLSY79: a unique data resource," this issue, pp. 59-62.
14. On the Internet at http://www.chrr.ohio-state.edu/nls-bib/.
15. See, for example, "Employment of Teenagers during the School Year and Summer," news release 04-217, on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/ news.release/pdf/nlsyth.pdf.