Latest Information from the NLS

Check out the latest BLS news release Labor Market Experience, Education, Partner Status, and Health for those Born 1980-1984 covering the NLSY97 data for rounds 1-20. This news update is available on the BLS Economic News Release page.

This release includes data from 1997 through 2021 (Rounds 1-20). To access public data, use the NLS Investigator.

Check out the latest BLS news release Number of Jobs, Labor Market Experience, Marital Status, and Health for those Born 1957-1964 covering the NLSY79 data for rounds 1-29. This news update is available on the BLS Economic News Release page.

This release includes data from 1979 through 2020 (Rounds 1-29). To access public data, use the NLS Investigator.

This dataset contains data from 1997 through 2019 (Rounds 1-19), plus the NLSY97 COVID-19 Supplement data from earlier this year. To access public data, use the NLS Investigator.

A short NLSY97 COVID survey was fielded in the first half of 2021 to document the possible effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment and health of the NLSY97 cohort. This data set is now available using the NLS Investigator. More information can be found in Appendix 14: NLSY97 COVID-19 Supplement.

This release includes data from 1986 through 2018. The Child/YA cohort follows the biological children of the women in the NLSY79. To access public data, use the NLS Investigator.

This release includes data from 1979 through 2018 (Rounds 1-28). To access public data, use the NLS Investigator.

We have re-released the NLSY97 public-use Rounds 1-18 data with some updates. A comprehensive review of the created wage variables CV_HRLY_COMPENSATION and CV_HRLY_PAY led to updates to a number of these created variables and select underlying raw data through all rounds. See the Errata for NLSY97 Round 18 Release for details. The re-release also includes a small number of corrections to the created incarceration variables and to invalid dates for freelance job start dates; these are also detailed on the errata page. The dataset can be accessed at NLS Investigator.

This release includes data from 1997 through 2017 (Rounds 1-18). To access public data, use the NLS Investigator.