NLSY79 Children

Newest Errata 

Case Data Deletion [posted August 18, 2021]

After the release of the 2018 data, the case data for respondent id 850302 were determined to be invalid for survey years 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2016. The survey data for this respondent for those survey years has been removed from the data. Users who are working with previously extracted datasets should avoid using the data for this respondent for survey years 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2016.

Newest Errata [Posted 10/7/2019]

A Note about Sampling Weights

The NLSY79 Child and Young Adult 1994-2016 data set includes revisions to several Young Adult sampling weights as well as the replacement of two revised Child sampling weights.

Young Adult Sampling Weights

Newest Errata [Posted 6/18/2019]

Revised Variable CEXCLUDED2000

The variable C00115.13 [CEXCLUDED2000], which alerts users to minority oversample cases that were not fielded in 2000, has been updated to include both CHILD and YOUNG ADULT cases who were not fielded in that round.

Previous Errata

Updates to 1996 HOME-SF scores [Posted 10/18/2017]

• Introduction
• Child CAPI Supplement (CS)
• Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS)
• Mother Supplement (MS)

Introduction

Each NLSY79 Child interview may have consisted of the administration of multiple field instruments.

Five new variables per round have been constructed for the NLSY79 Young Adult to give users summary measures of the school and work status of Young Adult respondents on the date of their interview in a given round. These new variables are as follows:

SCHOOLyy:  ENROLLMENT STATUS OF R AT DATE OF INTERVIEW - CONSTRUCTED