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NATIONAL SURVEY OF YOUTH - CHILD SUPPLEMENT
Description:
The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) is an outgrowth of a larger research project initiated in the 1960s by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to analyze the sources of variation in the labor market experience of the U.S. population. In 1979, the DOL initiated the NLSY, a longitudinal survey that assesses the educational, training, employment, and family experiences of a national sample of 12,686 men and women aged 14-21. NICHD funding for the survey began in 1982 with the addition of expanded information about fertility, pregnancy, and child care. In 1986, with support from NICHD and private foundations, an intergenerational component was added to the study. The 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, and 1996 waves of the NLSY included the administration of an extensive set of instruments assessing the development of children of the female respondents. Beginning in 1994, adolescents age 15 and over who were previously assessed with the child development measures were given a questionnaire similar to the one their parents were given in 1979. This adds demographic, labor force and educational outcome measures to preexisting information regarding their cognitive, social and affective development, as well as socioeconomic information accumulated about their parents since 1979.
