Do you need some NLS brochures or data briefs to share in your classroom, with a colleague, or at a conference? Click on the title links below to download PDF fact sheets for NLS cohorts and a variety of survey topics.
NLS conference booth
Brochures are available at the NLS conference booth along with assistance from NLS User Services staff. Visit the NLS Learning Opportunities for locations and dates.
Brochures
Cohort information
- Overview of the NLS cohorts (issue date: 06/2026)
- NLSY79 fact sheet (issue date: 06/2026)
- NLSY79 Child and Young Adult fact sheet (issue date: 06/2026)
- NLSY97 fact sheet (issue date: 06/2026)
- Original NLS cohorts fact sheet (summary of all four) (issue date: 006/2026)
- NLS of Older Men fact sheet (issue date: 06/2026)
- NLS of Young Men fact sheet (issue date: 06/2026)
- NLS of Mature Women fact sheet (issue date: 06/2026)
- NLS of Young Women fact sheet (issue date: 06/2026)
Survey-specific information
- New Questions in the ongoing cohorts (issue date: 06/2026)
Topic-specific information
- Recent Health Research from the National Longitudinal Surveys (issue date: 01/2025)
- Recent Aging Research from the National Longitudinal Surveys (issue date: 01/2025)
- Using the NLS to study aging (issue date: 06/2026)
- Using the NLS to study disabilities (issue date: 06/2026)
- Using the NLS to study education (issue date: 06/2026)
- Using the NLS to study employment (issue date: 06/2026)
- Using the NLS to study fertility (issue date: 06/2026)
- Using the NLS to study mental & physical health (issue date: 06/2026)
- Using the NLS to study income, assets & debts (issue date: 06/2026)
- Using the NLS to study military service (issue date: 06/2026)
- Using the NLS to study retirement (issue date: 06/2026)
- Using the NLS to study substance use (issue date: 06/2026)
- Using the NLS to study volunteering (issue date: 06/2026)
- Accessing NLS data via the NLS Investigator (issue date: 06/2026)
- Accessing restricted-use NLS data (issue date: 08/2023)
Data briefs (featuring NLSY79 Child/Young Adult datasets)
- Family Welfare and Support: Program Participation Data in the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth (issue date: 01/2025)
- Longitudinal Data for Research on Child Development (issue date: 08/2023)
- Using the NLSY79 Child Surveys to Study the Effects of Family Transitions (issue date: 08/2023)
- Substance Use Questions in the NLSY79 Child/Young Adult Surveys (issue date: 08/2023)
- Obesity Data in the NLSY79 Child/Young Adult Surveys (issue date: 03/2024)
- TV-Viewing Data in the NLSY79 Child/Young Adult Surveys (issue date: 03/2024)
- Data for Research on Adolescence and the Transition to Adulthood (issue date: 03/2024)