Tutorials and Videos

A set of tutorials is available to guide you on how to approach NLS research projects, search for and extract data, and then program with NLS data.

• Variable search in the NLS Investigator

  A two-part tutorial addressing common search problems and strategies for locating research topic-related information and variables.

• Linking roster items across rounds in the NLSY97

  Instructions on how to find the same individual across different survey rounds with the use of rosters.

• Constructing comparable samples across the NLSY79 and NLSY97

  Learn how to create parallel samples for research projects that use both the NLSY79 and the NLSY97 cohorts.

• Matching cohabiting partners to their characteristics (NLSY97)

  This tutorial builds on the Linking roster items across rounds in the NLSY97 tutorial by using created event history arrays and multiple rosters.

• Linking NLSY79 mothers and their children

  Instructions for linking a data file of young adult children extracted from the Child/Young Adult database with a file from the main Youth file for mothers.

• Investigator tutorial: NLSY97 demo

  This tutorial walks through the steps of searching a cohort to construct a data set using the NLS Investigator (search and extraction tool).

• Video tutorials

  Video demonstrations using the NLS Investigator extraction tool and instructions for importing data into STATA, SPSS, R, and SAS.