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National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79)

Errata for 1979-2022 Data Release

Newest errata

Respondent distance to non-resident child in R20 (2002)

POSTED 1/13/25

A coding error during the R30 release caused the R20 (2002) distance of the respondent to a child/parent of a child not living in the household (variables Q9-53 and Q9-50) to mistakenly be recoded as an invalid skip. These variables have been reverted to the original values in the current release.

Updates to CAL_YEAR_JOB and EMPLOYERS_ALL_WHYNOWK_2020 variables

POSTED 1/13/25

During the review of the data, an error was discovered in 4 CAL_YEAR_JOB variables (1 respondent in CAL_YEAR_JOB2_1996, 1 respondent in CAL_YEAR_JOB2_2002, 1 respondent in CAL_YEAR_JOB2_2014, 1 respondent in CAL_YEAR_JOB2_2016). These variables were updated to correctly reflect that no second job was reported (answer=0) in the current release. An additional update was made to correct the coding of the EMPLOYERS_ALL_WHYNOWK_2020.18.01 for 1 respondent.