National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79)

Codebook Supplement

Select an appendix or attachment below to view detailed technical information that supplements the information from the user's guide and the codebook pages in Investigator.

NLSY79 Attachment 3: Industrial and Occupational Classification Codes
NLSY79 Attachment 4: Fields of Study in College
NLSY79 Attachment 5: Index of Labor Unions and Employee Associations
NLSY79 Attachment 6: Other Kinds of Training Codes
NLSY79 Attachment 7: Other Certificate Codes
NLSY79 Attachment 8: Health Codes
NLSY79 Attachment 100: Geographic Regions
NLSY79 Attachment 101: Country Codes
NLSY79 Attachment 102: Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS)
NLSY79 Attachment 103: Religion Codes
NLSY79 Attachment 106: Profiles of American Youth (ASVAB Data/AFQT Scores)
NLSY79 Appendix 1: Employment Status Recode Variables (1979-1998 and 2006)
NLSY79 Appendix 2: Total Net Family Income Variable Creation (1979-2020)
NLSY79 Appendix 3: Job Satisfaction Measures
NLSY79 Appendix 4: Job Characteristics Index 1979-1982
NLSY79 Appendix 5: Supplemental Fertility and Relationship Variables
NLSY79 Appendix 6: Urban-Rural and SMSA-Central City Variables
NLSY79 Appendix 7: Unemployment Rate
NLSY79 Appendix 8: Highest Grade Completed & Enrollment Status Variable Creation
NLSY79 Appendix 9: Linking Employers from OnJobs Section to Employer Supplement and Through Survey Years
NLSY79 Appendix 11: Round 12 (1990) Survey Administration Methods
NLSY79 Appendix 12: Most Important Job Learning Activities (1993-94)
NLSY79 Appendix 13: Intro to CAPI Questionnaires and Codebooks
NLSY79 Appendix 14: Instrument Rosters
NLSY79 Appendix 15: Recipiency Event History Data
NLSY79 Appendix 16: 1994 Recall Experiment
NLSY79 Appendix 17: Interviewer Characteristics Data
NLSY79 Appendix 18: Work History Data
NLSY79 Appendix 19: SF-12 Health Scale Scoring
NLSY79 Appendix 20: Round 20 (2002) Early Bird and Income Recall Experiments
NLSY79 Appendix 21
NLSY79 Appendix 22: Migration Distance Variables for Respondent Locations
NLSY79 Appendix 23: Revised Asset and Debt Variables and Computed TOTAL Net Wealth Variables
NLSY79 Appendix 24: Reanalysis of the 1980 AFQT Data from the NLSY79
NLSY79 Appendix 25: Attitudinal Scale Scoring
NLSY79 Appendix 26: Non-Response to Financial Questions and Entry Points
NLSY79 Appendix 27: IRT Item Parameter Estimates, Scores and Standard Errors
NLSY79 Appendix 28: NLSY79 Employer History Roster
NLSY79 Appendix 29: Date of Interview Current Status Variables
NLSY79 Appendix 30: Programs for Assorted Created NLSY79 Variables
NLSY79/97 Cross-Cohort Data