National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97)
NLSY97 follows the lives of a sample of American youth born between 1980-1984 first interviewed in 1997. This ongoing cohort has been surveyed 20 times by 2022, and continues to be interviewed biennially. Two subsamples comprise the cohort: one which was designed to be representative of people living in the United States during the initial survey round and another designed to oversample individuals who are Black and Hispanic or Latino.
Study design
Cohort, Cohort - birth
Number of participants at first data collection
8,984 (participants)
Age at first data collection
12 - 18 years (participants)
Participant year of birth
1980 - 1984 (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
Young people living in the United States and born January 1, 1980, through December 31, 1984
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
1997
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/nlsy97
norc.org/research/projects/national-longitudinal-survey-of-youth-1997.html
Profile paper DOI
Funders
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
Department of Defense (DoD)
Department of Education
Department of Labor
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Ongoing?
Yes
Data types collected
- Interview – face-to-face
- Interview – phone
- Ethnography or participant observation
- None
- Geographic, spatial & environmental data
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups
