National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979 (ICPSR 34924)

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Ohio State University. Center for Human Resource Research

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The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979 (NLSY79) is a longitudinal project that follows the lives of a sample of American youth born between 1957-64. The cohort originally included 12,686 respondents ages 14-22 when first interviewed in 1979; after two subsamples were dropped, 9,964 respondents remain in the eligible samples. Data are available from Round 1 (1979 survey year) to Round 26 (2014 survey year).

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attitudes demographic characteristics education employment family background household composition job history job satisfaction job training labor force occupational mobility political participation secondary education wages and salaries work experience

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United States

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