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Title: Identifying Race and Ethnicity in the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
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Light, Audrey L. Nandi, Alita |
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Identifying Race and Ethnicity in the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Working Paper, Department of Economics and Center for Human Resource Research, The Ohio State University (February 2004), revision, November 2005 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Economics, The Ohio State University Keyword(s): Ethnic Groups/Ethnicity; Ethnic Studies; Racial Studies Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth is among the few surveys to provide multiple reports on respondents' race and ethnicity. Respondents were initially classified as Hispanic, black, or "other" on the basis of data collected during 1978 screener interviews. Respondents subsequently self-reported their "origin or descent" in 1979, and their race and Hispanic origin in 2002; the latter questions conform to the federal standards adopted in 1997 and used in the 2000 census. We use these data to (a) assess the size and nature of the multiracial population, (b) measure the degree of consistency among these alternative race-related variables, and (c) devise a number of alternative race/ethnicity taxonomies and determine which does the best job of explaining variation in log-wages. A key finding is that the explanatory power of race and ethnicity variables improves considerably when we cross-classify respondents by race and Hispanic origin. Little information is lost when multiracial respondents are assigned to one of their reported race categories because they make up only 1.3% of the sample. |
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Light, Audrey L. and Alita Nandi. "Identifying Race and Ethnicity in the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth." Working Paper, Department of Economics and Center for Human Resource Research, The Ohio State University (February 2004), revision, November 2005. |