Volume 36, Number 4 (Fall) 2001
Michael, Robert T., and Michael R. Pergamit. 2001. "The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 Cohort." Journal of Human Resources 36(4):628-640.
This essay describes the new National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 Cohort (NLSY97) that is the data set used in the articles in this volume. It briefly describes the background for the survey, its sponsorship by the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics, its fielding, and the nature of the substantive content of the first-year questionnaire. The paper notes major differences between this new survey and the earlier data sets in the National Longitudinal Survey Program.
Robert T. Michael is Dean of the Ham's Graduate School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago. Michael R. Pergamit is Research Vice President of the National Opinion Research Center. The authors thank Gail Hoff, Michael Horrigan, Marilyn Manser, Steven Pedlow, James Walker and Kirk Walker for comments on earlier drafts of this paper.
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