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NLS Youth '79 Cohort

National Longitudinal Survey of Youth - 1979 Cohort
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Men and women born in the years 1957-64
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NLS Youth 1979
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National Longitudinal Survey of Youth | 1979
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2022

2020

Errata for 1979-2018 Data Release

NEWEST ERRATA

NLSY79 2018 Bonus and Income Data [posted 8/3/2022]

A small number of bonus and income variables were inadvertently omitted from the 2018 release. 2023 Update: These variables have now been added to the public release.

OTHER ERRATA

NLSY79 Total Net Family Income 2018 Value of Estates/Trusts/Inheritances [posted 7/25/2022]

2018

NLSY79 Appendix 29: Date of Interview Current Status Variables

The recently released 1979-2018 NLSY79 online database contains a set of variables for survey years 1980-2018 with information on the respondent’s labor force status at each date of interview. The 2018 variables are:

DOI_EMPLOYED

  

DATE OF INTERVIEW STATUS – EMPLOYED

DOI_HOURS_WORKED

 

DATE OF INTERVIEW STATUS – HOURS WORKED

DOI_RETIRED

Programs Creating Total Net Family Wealth Variables

This part of Appendix 23 includes the programs that created the TNFW_TRUNC (Total Net Family Wealth) Variables for survey years 1985-2016.

Community Participation & Volunteerism

In the 2006 and 2010 survey years (and in 2012 and 2014 for those not interviewed in 2010), NLSY79 respondents reported the time they spent volunteering for causes or organizations, along with the type of organization. Approximately 22.6% of respondents in 2006 indicated they had done at least some volunteer activity in the previous calendar year, with the percentage rising to 24.6% in 2010.

As can be seen in Table 1, the pick list of causes/organizations changed in wording between 2006 and 2010.

Errata for 1979-2016 Data Release

Newest Errata

TWO JOBS MISSING FROM WORK HISTORY ARRAYS FOR SINGLE CASE [posted 11/5/2020]

Respondent #6768 (public identification number) has been found to be missing data for two jobs in survey year 2004 (round 21) in some data tables that produce the Work History arrays, the Employer History Roster variables and several other variables. A summary of the variables affected is as follows:

NLSY79/97 Cross-Cohort Data

An NLSY79/NLSY97 cross-cohort beta release is now available on Investigator. See Appendix 13: Cross-Cohort NLSY79/97 Overview (in the NLSY97 User Guide) for information.

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