Young Adult

Beginning in 2008, a new sequence on work experiences around the birth of each child of female respondents was added to the fertility section of the Young Adult survey. These questions were modeled after the 1983 maternity leave questions in the NLSY79. The questions in this series ask about work during the pregnancy, leave before and after the birth of the child, and the timing of the return to work. In 2008, this series was asked retrospectively about all children. This set of questions has remained in for subsequent years, but is asked only of new children and children for whom these data have not been collected previously or whose mothers had not returned to work by the date of last interview.