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National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Child and Young Adult (NLSCYA)

Errata for 2002 Child/Young Adult Release

Important information: Errata updates in NLS Investigator

The NLS Investigator contains the most recent public release of each NLS cohort. Corrections have been made based on the items listed below (unless otherwise noted). These older, corrected error notices are retained for archival purposes, such as enabling replication of research performed before the errors were discovered. Please contact NLS User Services for additional information. Note: Any Geocode-related errata corrections have been made to the restricted-use data file. See the Accessing Data / Cohort page for more information on utilizing restricted-use data.

POSTED November 2005

Appendix B in the NLSY79 Child/Young Adult Users Guide incorrectly specifies "perseverance" (instead of "cooperation") as an item in the composition of the Temperament "sociability" subscale. The following 3 items (documented with the correct Child reference #s for each survey year) comprise the Sociability scale:

Attitude:
C0525200        CS863131        CHILD'S ATTITUDE 1986 

C0715300        CS883330        TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S ATTITUDE TOWARD BEING TESTED 1988 

C0926000        CS906021        TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S ATTITUDE TOWARD BEING TESTED 1990 

C1115500        CS926135        TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S ATTITUDE TOWARD BEING TESTED 1992 

C1222900        CS94EV-1A       TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S ATTITUDE TOWARD BEING TESTED 1994 

C1539800        CS96EV-1A       TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S ATTITUDE TOWARD BEING TESTED 1996 

C1784900        CS98EV-1A       TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S ATTITUDE TOWARD BEING TESTED 1998 

C2295500        CSEV-1A          TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S ATTITUDE TOWARD BEING TESTED 2000 

C2574800        CSEV-1A          TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S ATTITUDE TOWARD BEING TESTED 2002
Rapport:
C0525300        CS863132        CHILD'S RAPPORT 1986
C0715400        CS883331        TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S RAPPORT WITH INTERVIEWER 1988
C0926100        CS906023        TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S RAPPORT WITH INTERVIEWER 1990
C1115600        CS926137        TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S RAPPORT WITH INTERVIEWER 1992
C1223000        CS94EV-1B       TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S RAPPORT WITH INTERVIEWER 1994
C1539900        CS96EV-1B       TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S RAPPORT WITH INTERVIEWER 1996
C1785000        CS98EV-1B       TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S RAPPORT WITH INTERVIEWER 1998
C2295600        CSEV-1B         TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S RAPPORT WITH INTERVIEWER 2000
C2574900        CSEV-1B         TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S RAPPORT WITH INTERVIEWER 2002
Cooperation (NOT perseverance):
C0525500        CS863134        CHILD'S COOPERATION 1986
C0715600        CS883333        TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S COOPERATION 1988
C0926300        CS906027        TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S COOPERATION 1990
C1115800        CS926141        TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S COOPERATION 1992
C1223200        CS94EV-1D       TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S COOPERATION 1994
C1540100        CS96EV-1D       TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S COOPERATION 1996
C1785200        CS98EV-1D       TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S COOPERATION 1998
C2295800        CSEV-1D         TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S COOPERATION 2000
C2575100        CSEV-1D         TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S COOPERATION 2002

POSTED June 2005

The following YA2002 items have the wrong distribution code assigned to them. The correct codes are as follows:

Reference Number Variable Title Question Number
Y14009.00 HOW OFTEN DOES R ARGUE WITH PARENTS ABOUT RULES? YASR-3HB
Y14012.00 HOW OFTEN DOES MOM KNOW WHO R IS WITH OUTSIDE THE HOME? YASR-3HE
Y14014.00 HOW OFTEN DOES DAD KNOW WHO R IS WITH WHEN R IS NOT HOME? YASR-3HG
Y14016.00 HOW OFTEN DOES STEP-DAD KNOW WHO R IS WITH WHEN R NOT HOME? YASR-3HI

Correction to Y14010.00 HOW MUCH DOES R TELL PARENTS ABOUT WHO THEY SOCIALIZE WITH? (YASR-3HC)

The correct distribution codes are:

  1. Nothing at all
  2. Just a little
  3. Some
  4. A lot