National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Children and Young Adults (NLSCYA)
NLSCYA follows the children of the women respondents of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79). The children were born between 1970 and 2014, and the first interview took place in 1986 when children were 0-16 years. Starting in 1994, children 12 and older have been included in the Young Adult data collection. As of 2020, more than 10,000 children between the ages of 12 to 50 years have been interviewed in at least one survey round out of a total of approximately 11,550 children who have been identified as born to NLSY79 mothers.
Study design
Cohort
Number of participants at first data collection
4,971 (participants)
Age at first data collection
0 - 16 years (participants)
Participant year of birth
1970 - 2014 (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
Children who have been born to the national sample of women (women in the NLSY79 cohort)
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
1986
Primary Institutions
Bureau of Labor Statistics
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Ohio State University
University of Chicago
Links
nlsinfo.org/content/cohorts/nlsy79-children
bls.gov/nls/nlsy79-children.htm
nlsinfo.org/content/cohorts/nlsy79-children/other-documentation/researchtechnical-reports
Profile paper DOI
Not available
Funders
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Ongoing?
Yes
Data types collected
- Computer, paper or task testing (e.g. cognitive testing, theory of mind doll task, attention computer tasks)
- Interview – face-to-face
- Interview – online
- Interview – phone
- Self-report questionnaire – paper or computer assisted
- Ethnography or participant observation
- None
- Existing research data
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups
