Sample Design

Introductory Files

Web-Accessible Data

Content Outlines

Wave 1

Wave 2

Wave 3

Codebooks and Data Access

Wave 1

Wave 2

Wave 3

Bibliography

Working Papers

(May 25, 2018) NSFH Wave 1 is now fully curated at ICPSR. Users can download ASCII, R, tab-delimited, SPSS, SAS, and Stata data files, as well as PDF versions of the study documentation. NSFH1 data and document files are also available from the Data and Information Services Center's Online Archive.

CODEBOOK FILES

DATA FILES

Data File: n = 13,007 cases (10 cases have been deleted from the data
file)
Record size = 7954

LAYOUT FILES

APPENDICES

State and Country Codes
Occupation Codes
Industry Codes
Occupational SES - Information about the codes; actual codes are not available in electronic form
Religion Codes
Medical Condition Codes
Conversion of Dates to Century Months
Problem Inventory: Merging of Responses
Instructions for creating income variables and poverty status
Coding Categories for Purpose of Gifts and Loans
Instructions Used to Create Household Composition Variables that were Added to the Data File
National Survey of Families and Households: A Sampling Report
Household Member Number
"Show Cards" used in National Survey of Families and Households Interviews

INTERVIEW SCHEDULES

Primary Respondent Main Interview Schedule
Primary Respondent Self-Enumerated Schedule
Secondary Respondent Self-Enumerated Schedule

SKIPMAPS

Wave 1 Main Interview

Wave 1 Partner Interview

Wave 1 Self-Administered Questionnaire