Find Data Related to...

The subject terms below relate to this study. By clicking on any of them, you can view a list of other studies related to that subject.

• activities of daily living
• age
• aging
• caregivers
• children
• death
• drug use
• education
• employment
• ethnicity
• family history
• generations
• grandchildren
• grandparents
• household composition
• institutional care
• intergenerational relations
• interpersonal relations
• life satisfaction
• marital status
• mental health
• military service
• parents
• physical condition
• political affiliation
• race
• religion
• self concept
• siblings

Longitudinal Study of Generations, 1971, 1985, 1988, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2000 [California]

Principal Investigator(s): Bengtson, Vern L.

Summary: The Longitudinal Study of Generations (LSOG), initiated in 1971, began as a survey of intergenerational relations among 300 three-generation California families with grandparents (then in their sixties), middle-aged parents (then in their early forties), and grandchildren (then aged 15 to 26). The study broadened in 1991 and now includes a fourth generation, the great-grandchildren of these same families. The LSOG, with a fully elaborated generation-sequential design, allows comparisons of sets ... (view details)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR22100.v2

What Can I Do With This Collection?

• Explore

  • View study description

  • Browse documentation files (login not required)

  • Variables:

    • List all variables in this study

    • Search the variables in this study

• Download

  • Download select files (select available analysis formats)

  • Download all files (354,504 KB)

• Analyze online

  • Analyze data using SDA (?)

• Help

  • Data use tutorial (introduction for new users)

• Teach and learn

  ICPSR's Online Learning Center has created the following instructional guides that utilize data from this study:

  • Social Change: A Data-Driven Learning Guide

• Receive Notification

  Use any of the notification links to add this study to your RSS feed; you will then receive notification if the study is substantively updated.

  • 

  • 

  • 

• Utilities

  • Export Citation (?)

    • RIS

    • EndNote XML (EndNote X4.0.1 or higher)

  • Export Study-level metadata (does not include variable-level metadata)

    • DDI 2.1 or DDI 3.1

    • Dublin Core

    • MARC21 XML