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Title: Some Recent Governmental Uses of the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS) in the USA
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Pergamit, Michael R. |
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Some Recent Governmental Uses of the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS) in the USA In: Youth in the Eighties: Papers from the Australian Longitudinal Survey Research Project. R.G. Gregory and T. Karmel, eds. Canberra, Australia: Department of Employment, Education and Training & Centre for Economic Policy Research, Australian National University, 1992. Cohort(s): NLS General Publisher: Centre for Economic Policy Research, ANU Keyword(s): Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA); Demography; Hispanics; NLS Description Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The purpose of this paper is to give some recent examples of uses of the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS) by the United States government. The National Longitudinal Surveys were begun in the mid 1960s with the drawing of four samples: Young Men who were 14-24 years old in 1966, Young Women who were 14-24 years old in 1968, Older Men who were 4559 years old in 1966, and Mature Women who were 30-44 years old in 1967. Each sample originally had about 5000 individuals with oversamples of blacks. In the early 1980s, the Young Men and Older Men surveys were discontinued. The two women's surveys continue and are currently on a biannual interview cycle. The interviews and retention rates for each of these original cohorts are found in Table 1. In 1979, a new cohort was begun with a sample of over 12 000 young men and women who were 14-21 years of age on 1 January 1979. It included oversamples of blacks, Hispanics, economically disadvantaged whites, and youth in the military. This survey whi ch we call the Youth Cohort, or NLSY, has been interviewed every year since it began. After eleven waves of interviewing, we had a retention rate of 91.4 per cent of the original sample, probably the highest retention rate of any longitudinal survey after such a long time. We are now completing our twelfth wave of interviewing and as of 24 November 1990, we have completed interviews with 88.1 per cent of the original sample with about two weeks remaining in the field period. Retention rates by year for the NLSY are found in Table 2. The NLS program was originally begun by the Office of Manpower Policy, Evaluation, and Research of the United States Department of Labor. This agency was combined with others to form the Employment and Training Administration where the NLS was administered through 1986. The NLSY, in particular, was begun in order to evaluate the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act. Over time the NLS developed into a more general purpose data set for the study of labor market behavior. It was determined that it fit better into the mission of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and was transferred to BLS in October 1986. In the four years BLS has overseen the NLS program, we have been developing a multi-dimensional approach toward regular usage of the data. |
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Pergamit, Michael R. "Some Recent Governmental Uses of the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS) in the USA" In: Youth in the Eighties: Papers from the Australian Longitudinal Survey Research Project. R.G. Gregory and T. Karmel, eds. Canberra, Australia: Department of Employment, Education and Training & Centre for Economic Policy Research, Australian National University, 1992.
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