National Longitudinal Surveys (USA)
U.S. National Longitudinal Surveys provide data on labour market activities and life events of seven cohorts of men and women. The surveys are undertaken by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
National Longitudinal Survey cohorts are :
NLSY97 1997-2007 (rounds 1-11), revised 2009
NLSY79 Child/Young Adult (1986-2006), revised 2009
NLSY79 (1979-2006), released 2008
Orginal Cohort-Older Men, 1966-1990
Original Cohort-Mature Women, 1967-2003
Original Cohort-Young Men, 1966-1981
Original Cohort-Young Women, 1968-2003
The NLS Handbook is available on the BLS site.
Full information about the survey is available on the NLS home page .
To access NLS cohorts register on the left side of this NLS Investigator page .
The NLS Investigator platform gives access to data files in multiple formats, control cards and codebooks.
Stata 11 manuals are located at 005.369 in both the VSP Reference Library and the Badia Library.
The Stata Journal is at SER 51 on the garden floor of the Badia Library.
Contact: Thomas Bourke at econlibrary@eui.eu