Errata for NLSY97 Round 19 Release

NEWEST ERRATA

NLSY97 CV_MSA Coding Error in Round 18 and Round 19 [posted 5/22/2023]

Respondents who were not in the country were miscoded in the CV_MSA variable. These respondents were assigned a valid skip (-4) rather than the established category for not in the country (code=5). All of the respondents with a valid skip for these rounds should be recoded to the value of 5. This will be updated on the next release.

OTHER ERRATA

Income and Assets Review [posted 11/4/2022]

The NLS program has conducted a review of income and assets topcoding and standardized these values. Adjustments have been made to a very limited number of values to reflect the current standards.

Missing 1998 Machine Check Variables [posted 10/25/2022]

A set of machine check freelance job variables from 1998 has been inadvertently omitted from the public release. The variables can now be downloaded from yemp112800.zip until they are made available on the next public release.

Duplicate Job IDs in the NLSY97 [posted 4/7/2022]

In response to various user questions concerning this topic, NLS archivists are currently reviewing all occurrences in which the same job uid appears on the YEMP roster more than one time in the same interview round. The list of all of these occurrences can be found in the file nlsy97jobswithsameuids.xlsx. When the archivists complete the review of these cases, they expect to find that these cases will fall into three distinct categories: 1) The jobs are the same but the respondent reported working at them multiple times during the same interview period; 2) The jobs are in fact distinct and should be assigned separate unique ids; 3) The jobs are the same, and the information collected about these jobs was duplicated. Once the review is done, we will post an errata that includes the type of change and the affected variables.

Errata for Custom Weighting Program [posted 3/25/2022]

An error in the NLSY97 custom weighting program was discovered and corrected on March 10, 2022. The program application allowed an option to reclassify all members in the sample as cross-sectional. A program error caused this option to be exercised which reassigned all oversample user-entered IDs to be redefined as cross-sectional. As a result, the program generated weights without accounting for cross-sectional versus oversample status. The created variables contained on the public release are unaffected as are yearly weights generated from the Weight Years page in the Custom Weighting program.

Corrections in Some Employer ID, Created, and Event History Variables [posted 2/25/2022]

A review of employer unique id variables has indicated that for three respondents, we have duplicated ids representing unique jobs in various rounds of data. This problem affects the various YEMP_UID and related XWALKID variables across a number of rounds. Additional updates were made to the associated created and event history variables: EMP_STATUS_year.xx, EMP_DUAL2/3_year.xx, EMP_BK_WKS_year, EMP_BY_STATUS_year, EMP_BK_HOURS_year, EMP_START_YEAR_year, and CV_WKSWK_JOB_DLI. The corrected values for the affected cases are listed below.

PUBID         QNAME                                                                                             YEAR                    RESPONSE
3343            DLI_XWALKID.02                                                                                2009                     200901
8819            DLI_XWALKID.02                                                                                2009                     200901
3343            YEMP_UID.01                                                                                     2010                     200901
3343            YEMP_UID.03                                                                                     2010                     200902
8819            YEMP_UID.01                                                                                     2010                     200902
8819            YEMP_UID.02                                                                                     2010                     200901
4007            YEMP_UID.01                                                                                     2010                     201001
4007            NEWEMP_XWALKID.01                                                                     2010                     201001
3343            YEMP_UID.02                                                                                     2011                     200901
8819            YEMP_UID.02                                                                                     2011                     200902
8819            YEMP_UID.01                                                                                     2011                     200901
4007            YEMP_UID.02                                                                                     2011                     201001
8819            YEMP_UID.01                                                                                     2013                     200901
8819            YEMP_UID.01                                                                                     2015                     200901
8819            YEMP_UID.02                                                                                     2017                     200901
3343            CV_WKSWK_JOB_DLI.01                                                                  2010                     85
4007            CV_WKSWK_JOB_DLI.01                                                                  2010                     27
8819            CV_WKSWK_JOB_DLI.01                                                                  2010                     102
8819            CV_WKSWK_JOB_DLI.02                                                                  2010                     102
3343            CV_WKSWK_JOB_DLI.03                                                                  2010                     51
3343            CV_WKSWK_JOB_DLI.02                                                                  2011                     100
4007            CV_WKSWK_JOB_DLI.01                                                                  2011                     261
4007            CV_WKSWK_JOB_DLI.02                                                                  2011                     53
8819            CV_WKSWK_JOB_DLI.01                                                                  2011                     151
8819            CV_WKSWK_JOB_DLI.02                                                                  2011                     146
8819            CV_WKSWK_JOB_DLI.01                                                                  2013                     263
8819            CV_WKSWK_JOB_DLI.01                                                                  2015                     366
8819            CV_WKSWK_JOB_DLI.02                                                                  2017                     398   

8819            EMP_DUAL_2_2015.44 through EMP_DUAL_2_2015.52                 XRND                    200901
8819            EMP_DUAL_2_2016.01 through EMP_DUAL_2_2016.23                 XRND                    200901
8819            EMP_STATUS_2013.45 through EMP_STATUS_2013.52                 XRND                    200901
8819            EMP_STATUS_2014.01 through EMP_STATUS_2014.52                 XRND                    200901
8819            EMP_STATUS_2015.01 through EMP_STATUS_2015.43                 XRND                    200901
8819            EMP_STATUS_2011.38 through EMP_STATUS_2011.53                  XRND                    200901
8819            EMP_STATUS_2012.01 through EMP_STATUS_2012.52                 XRND                    200901
8819            EMP_STATUS_2013.01 through EMP_STATUS_2013.44                 XRND                    200901
3343            EMP_DUAL_2_2010.50 through EMP_DUAL_2_2010.52                 XRND                    200901
3343            EMP_DUAL_2_2011.01 through EMP_DUAL_2_2011.12                 XRND                    200901
4007            EMP_DUAL_2_2010.45 through EMP_DUAL_2_2010.52                 XRND                    201001
4007            EMP_DUAL_2_2011.01 through EMP_DUAL_2_2011.18                 XRND                    201001
8819            EMP_DUAL_2_2010.41 through EMP_DUAL_2_2010.52                 XRND                    200902
8819            EMP_DUAL_2_2011.01 through EMP_DUAL_2_2011.32                 XRND                    200902
8819            EMP_STATUS_2010.41 through EMP_STATUS_2010.52                 XRND                   200901
8819            EMP_STATUS_2011.01 through EMP_STATUS_2011.37                 XRND                   200901
8819            EMP_DUAL_2_2009.41 through EMP_DUAL_2_2009.52                 XRND                   200901
3343            EMP_DUAL_2_2009.47 through EMP_DUAL_2_2009.52                 XRND                   200902
3343            EMP_DUAL_2_2010.01 through EMP_DUAL_2_2010.14                 XRND                   200902
8819            EMP_DUAL_2_2010.01 through EMP_DUAL_2_2010.40                 XRND                   200901

3343            EMP_DUAL_3_2010.15                                                                     XRND                   200902
3343            EMP_START_WEEK_2010.01                                                          XRND                   47
8819            EMP_START_WEEK_2010.01                                                          XRND                   41
8819            EMP_START_WEEK_2010.02                                                          XRND                   41
3343            EMP_START_WEEK_2010.03                                                          XRND                   47
3343            EMP_START_YEAR_2010.01                                                           XRND                   2009
8819            EMP_START_YEAR_2010.01                                                           XRND                   2009
8819           EMP_START_YEAR_2010.02                                                            XRND                   2009
3343           EMP_START_YEAR_2010.03                                                            XRND                   2009
8819           EMP_STATUS_2009.41 through EMP_STATUS_2009.52                 XRND                   200902
3343           EMP_STATUS_2009.47 through EMP_STATUS_2009.52                 XRND                   200901
3343           EMP_STATUS_2010.01 through EMP_STATUS_2010.49                 XRND                   200901
8819           EMP_STATUS_2010.01 through EMP_STATUS_2010.40                 XRND                   200902
4007           EMP_STATUS_2010.18 through EMP_STATUS_2010.44                 XRND                   201001
3343           EMP_BK_STATUS_2010                                                                    XRND                  -4
3343           EMP_BK_WKS_2010                                                                         XRND                  -4
3343           EMP_BK_HOURS_2010                                                                    XRND                  -4
8819           EMP_BK_STATUS_2010                                                                   XRND                  -4
8819           EMP_BK_WKS_2010                                                                        XRND                  -4
8819           EMP_BK_HOURS_2010                                                                   XRND                  -4

Missing Employment Variable [posted 1/26/2022]

As part of the 2021 data release, a large set of variables that were used to determine job type was released to the public for the first time. Unfortunately, one of these variables, the 2005 version of YEMP-9899WDZ, which collects information about on-call status, was inadvertently left off of the release. This variable will be included as part of the next public release. Until then, it can be accessed from the following link: yemp-9899wdz_2005.zip.

Updates to College Event History variables [posted 12/29/2021]

Due to a programming error, the imputation for cases where a respondent reported a valid start date but invalid stop date for an enrollment period was not implemented. This only affected data from Round 18 and Round 19 reports. A total of 54 cases are affected. The corrections are attached (college_errata_data.xlsx) and the data will be updated at the next release.

Missing Assets 35 Variables [posted 12/10/2021]

Seven variables that are part of the combined NLSY97 Assets 35 section were inadvertently omitted from the most recent public release. The complete Investigator tagset for these variables can be downloaded from the following link: yast35missingvars.zip.

Updates to Marital Status and Associated Event History Variables [posted 11/30/2021]

The round-specific created variables (CV_MARSTAT and CV_MARSTAT_COLLAPSED) and associated event history variables were updated in the Round 19 release to reflect respondent corrections to marital and cohabitation status histories. The affected PUBIDs and rounds are listed below:

In addition, an examination of partners accumulated across multiple rounds indicated that a small number of partners who at first appeared to be unique individuals were in fact the same person. Updates made to the Round 19 release include those to the PARTNERS roster along with the event history and created variables to account for these mis-reports. The affected PUBIDs are listed below:

Mismatched Industry and Occupation Codes in Single 2008 Case [posted 11/23/2021]

We have discovered that for a single case in the 2008 data, the industry and occupation codes were not matched to the correct job number for some of this respondent's reported jobs. The corrected industry and occupation codes for these jobs are listed below: