National Youth Survey [United States]: Wave II, 1977 (ICPSR 8424)

Version Date: Aug 26, 2008

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Principal Investigator(s):
Delbert S. Elliott, University of Colorado. Institute of Behavioral Science

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08424.v2

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Alternate Title

NYS 1977

Summary

Youth data for the second wave of the National Youth Survey are contained in this data collection. The first wave was conducted in 1976 (ICPSR 8375). Youths were interviewed in early 1978 about events and behavior that had occurred in 1977. Data were collected on demographic and socioeconomic status of respondents, aspirations, social isolation, normlessness, labeling, attitudes toward deviance, exposure to delinquent peers, commitment to delinquent peers, sex roles, interpersonal violence, exposure to substance abuse, self-reported delinquency, drug and alcohol use, and victimization.

Citation

Elliott, Delbert S. National Youth Survey [United States]:  Wave II, 1977. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-08-26. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08424.v2

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Funding

United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute of Mental Health (MH27552), United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (78-JN-AX-0003)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Restrictions

Users are reminded by the United States Department of Health and Human Services that these data are to be used solely for statistical analysis and reporting of aggregated information and not for the investigation of specific individuals or treatment facilities.

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1977

Date of Collection

1977

Data Collection Notes

  1. Produced by the University of Colorado, Behavioral Research Institute at Boulder, CO.

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Sample

National sample of the American youth population selected by area probability sampling.

Universe

Youths in the United States.

Unit(s) of Observation

Individual

Data Source

personal interviews

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

1985-10-09

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:

  • Elliott, Delbert S. National Youth Survey [United States]: Wave II, 1977. ICPSR08424-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-08-26. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08424.v2

2008-08-26 New files were added. These files included one or more of the following: Stata setup, SAS transport (CPORT), SPSS system, Stata system, SAS supplemental syntax, and Stata supplemental syntax files, and a tab-delimited ASCII data file. Some other minor edits were made to improve the data and documentation.

1985-10-09 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Performed consistency checks.
  • Standardized missing values.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

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Notes

  • The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.

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This study is maintained and distributed by the National Addiction & HIV Data Archive Program (NAHDAP). NAHDAP is supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).