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The National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Market Experience of Youth (NLSY) is an ongoing study of 12,686 young men and women who were aged 14 to 21 as of January 1, 1979. Over the years, the respondents have answered a wide variety of over 26,000 questions about their work experience, military experience, training, schooling, family background, marital status, income and assets, health, fertility, child care, and drug and alcohol abuse. The data from the survey are available on CD-ROM. This paper briefly describes the data set and how it may be accessed.
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Sheets, C.T. NLSDBA: The National Longitudinal surveys on compact disk. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers 23, 212–213 (1991). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03203366
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03203366