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Title: Data Watch: The National Longitudinal Surveys
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Pergamit, Michael R. Pierret, Charles R. Rothstein, Donna S. Veum, Jonathan R. |
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Data Watch: The National Longitudinal Surveys Journal of Economic Perspectives 15,2 (Spring 2001): 239-253. Also: http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/jep.15.2.239 Cohort(s): NLS General, NLSY79, NLSY97 Publisher: American Economic Association Keyword(s): Employment; Longitudinal Data Sets; Longitudinal Surveys; NLS Description Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS) are perhaps the oldest and longest running panel surveys of individuals in the United States. These surveys were originally started at the U.S. Department of Labor in the mid-1960s to examine employment issues faced by different segments of the U.S. population. The four "original cohorts" were Young Men, Young Women, Mature Women (women who had finished their childbearing and were returning to the labor force), and Older Men (men approaching retirement). Since that time, the NLS program has expanded to include two new cohorts of youth. Table 1 provides an overview of the NLS cohorts over time. The NLS surveys have been widely used for over a quarter of a century and across a large number of academic disciplines including economics, sociology, psychology, education, medicine, and public policy. Hundreds of Ph.D. dissertations and thousands of journal articles rely on NLS data. The success of the NLS program is in part attributable to three aspects of the surveys: high retention rates, careful design features, and the broad range of subject areas studied. Over the past decade, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 has been the most widely used and most important of the NLS data sets. Thus, rather than attempting to describe each of the longitudinal surveys in detail, this paper will convey the approach and scope of the NLS program by focusing primarily on NLSY79. The new youth cohort begun in 1997, the NLSY97, will be discussed further below. |
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Pergamit, Michael R., Charles R. Pierret, Donna S. Rothstein and Jonathan R. Veum. "Data Watch: The National Longitudinal Surveys." Journal of Economic Perspectives 15,2 (Spring 2001): 239-253.
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