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Description & Citation--Study No. 8375

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:8375
 
Title:National Youth Survey [United States]: Wave I, 1976
 
Principal Investigator(s):Delbert Elliott
 
Series:National Youth Survey (NYS) Series
 
Funding Agency:United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institute of Mental Health.
 
Grant Number:MH27552
 
Bibliographic Citation:Elliott, Delbert. NATIONAL YOUTH SURVEY [UNITED STATES]: WAVE I, 1976 [Computer file]. ICPSR version. Boulder, CO: University of Colorado, Behavioral Research Institute [producer], 1977. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1994.
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This dataset contains parent and youth data for the National Youth Survey. Youths and one of their parents or legal guardians were interviewed in early 1977 about events and behavior occurring during calendar year 1976. Included is information on the demographics and socioeconomic status of respondents, disruptive events in the home, neighborhood problems, parental aspirations for youth, labeling, integration of family and peer contexts, attitudes toward deviance in adults and juveniles, parental discipline, community involvement, and drug use.
 
Subject Term(s):aspirations, behavior problems, community involvement, career goals, delinquent behavior, depression, deviance, drugs, expectations, family conflict, family relations, health services utilization, life events, neighborhood conditions, parental attitudes, parents, peer influence, sexual behavior, social attitudes, social behavior, social isolation, social values, socioeconomic status, spouse abuse, substance abuse, teenage pregnancies, victimization, youths
 
Geographic Coverage:United States
 
Universe:Youths in the United States.
 
Data Type:survey data
 

Methodology

Sample:National sample of the American youth population selected by area probability sampling.
 
Data Source:personal interviews
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as LRECL, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:1985-05-24
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 2005-11-04.
 
  2005-11-04 - On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to reflect these additions.
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Data File
  • DS2: SAS Data Definition Statements