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

Errata for 2000 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 April 2002

Over samples reduced in 2000

In Round 19-2000, due to funding constraints, children of the black and Hispanic over samples were reduced by about 38%. These excluded cases were randomly selected and will be eligible for re-interview in Round 20-2002.

HOME Recode short titles

Several of the home recode titles (e.g., C19028., C19055., C19082., C25091., C25119., and C25146.) do not have a space between the "&" and the next word (e.g., & DAD). When running SAS this produces a warning, but does not affect the use of the title.

Interview status flags reduced and simplified

In R19-2000, the set of child interview status flags has been reduced to 7 from 8 for 1994-1998. The key child interview status flag (CINTRV2000) has been created as a dichotomous rather than a 7-category variable as in 1998.