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The Web Investigator contains the most recent release of each NLS cohort with corrections made to items noted in the Errata of prior releases. Known problems with the current release of the NLSY79 are found below. Users are urged to access the NLS cohorts through the Web Investigator, if they are not already doing so. For further questions, please contact NLS User Services.


R21-2006 NLSY79 Child-Young Adult Release

An error in the construction of the information sheet flag indicating whether or not the father of the respondent is deceased led respondents whose last Young Adult interview was in 2004 to have this flag indicate incorrectly that their father was deceased. These respondents were subsequently skipped over questions concerning their contact with and closeness to their fathers. Users should note that respondents who were first-time Young adults in 2006 were unaffected by this problem and were branched correctly into questions concerning their biological fathers, as were older Young Adults who were noninterviews in 2004 but interviewed in 2006. Users should also note that some of the affected questions would only have been asked of respondents under age 21; users are encouraged to consult the questionnaire to determine ship patterns surrounding these questions. The affected questions, which will show a higher than expected level of missing values, are as follows:

Q2-26 	IS FATHER OF R LIVING AT THIS TIME?
Q2-28 	DO MOTHER AND FATHER OF R LIVE IN SAME HOUSEHOLD?
Q2-29 	WHEN DID R LAST LIVE WITH FATHER?
Q2-29A 	TIME UNIT OF WHEN R LAST LIVED WITH FATHER
Q2-29B 	LEFT HOUSEHOLD BEFORE BORN/NEVER LIVED WITH US
Q2-31 	HOW LONG AGO DID FATHER LEAVE HOUSEHOLD OF R?
Q2-31A 	HOW LONG AGO DID FATHER LEAVE HOUSEHOLD OF MOTHER?
Q2-31B 	TIME UNIT FOR HOW LONG AGO FATHER LEFT HOUSEHOLD OF R/MOTHER
Q2-33 	DID FATHER WORK FOR PAY ALL OF 2005, PART, OR NOT AT ALL?
FATHOCC OCCUPATION OF FATHER AT LONGEST JOB (CENSUS 3 DIGIT) [not in preliminary release]
Q2-33C 	DID FATHER WORK > 35 HOURS PER WEEK AT MOST RECENT JOB IN WEEKS WORKED
Q2-33CC DID FATHER WORK > 35 HOURS PER WEEK AT MOST RECENT JOB WHEN HE LAST WORKED
Q2-34 	HIGHEST GRADE COMPLETED BY FATHER
Q2-34A 	NUMBER OF MILES R LIVES AWAY FROM BIOLOGICAL FATHER
Q2-35 	HOW OFTEN R SEES FATHER
Q2-35A 	HOW OFTEN HAS R HAD CONTACT WITH FATHER IN PAST YEAR
YASR-4D HOW CLOSE DOES R FEEL TO FATHER?

R21-2004 NLSY79 Child-Young Adult Update

PPVT 2004 score updates. In 2004 children ages 6-9 years with no previous valid PPVT score were eligible to be administered the PPVT. Of the eligible children in this age range, the following 31 children again did not complete the PPVT in 2004. They should have been assigned scores of -3, instead of -4 as currently listed in the public datafile:

                                    PPV_                     PPV_
Obs      CPUBID   PPVTAge2004    ERROR2004    PPVT2004    BASAL2004    PPVTP2004    PPVTZ2004
               
  1        5702       104            -3          -3           -3           -3           -3
  2        5703        76            -3          -3           -3           -3           -3
  3        7502        98            -3          -3           -3           -3           -3
  4        9102        96            -3          -3           -3           -3           -3
  5       38503        84            -3          -3           -3           -3           -3
  6      108805        78            -3          -3           -3           -3           -3
  7      111001       113            -3          -3           -3           -3           -3
  8      162502        72            -3          -3           -3           -3           -3
  9      255801       107            -3          -3           -3           -3           -3
 10      255802        89            -3          -3           -3           -3           -3
 11      417601        85            -3          -3           -3           -3           -3
 12      466401       108            -3          -3           -3           -3           -3
 13      490602       110            -3          -3           -3           -3           -3
 14      510403       100            -3          -3           -3           -3           -3
 15      603901        75            -3          -3           -3           -3           -3
 16      604302        95            -3          -3           -3           -3           -3
 17      627502       117            -3          -3           -3           -3           -3
 18      683501       102            -3          -3           -3           -3           -3
 19      688701        77            -3          -3           -3           -3           -3
 20      696801        94            -3          -3           -3           -3           -3
 21      710601        91            -3          -3           -3           -3           -3
 22      755301       110            -3          -3           -3           -3           -3
 23      799701       119            -3          -3           -3           -3           -3
 24      840803       113            -3          -3           -3           -3           -3
 25      906703       105            -3          -3           -3           -3           -3
 26      976302        83            -3          -3           -3           -3           -3
 27      977205       119            -3          -3           -3           -3           -3
 28      989202        96            -3          -3           -3           -3           -3
 29     1030903        74            -3          -3           -3           -3           -3
 30     1177305       105            -3          -3           -3           -3           -3
 31     1207803       110            -3          -3           -3           -3           -3


R20-2002 NLSY79 Child-Young Adult Public Release
November 2005

Appendix B in the NLSY79 Child/Young Adult Users Guide incorrectly specifies "perseverance" (instead of "cooperation") as an item in the composition of the Temperament "sociability" subscale. The following 3 items (documented with the correct Child reference #s for each survey year) comprise the Sociability scale:

Attitude:
C0525200        CS863131        CHILD'S ATTITUDE 1986
C0715300        CS883330        TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S ATTITUDE TOWARD BEING TESTED 1988
C0926000        CS906021        TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S ATTITUDE TOWARD BEING TESTED 1990
C1115500        CS926135        TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S ATTITUDE TOWARD BEING TESTED 1992
C1222900        CS94EV-1A       TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S ATTITUDE TOWARD BEING TESTED 1994
C1539800        CS96EV-1A       TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S ATTITUDE TOWARD BEING TESTED 1996
C1784900        CS98EV-1A       TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S ATTITUDE TOWARD BEING TESTED 1998
C2295500        CSEV-1A         TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S ATTITUDE TOWARD BEING TESTED 2000
C2574800        CSEV-1A         TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S ATTITUDE TOWARD BEING TESTED 2002

Rapport:
C0525300        CS863132        CHILD'S RAPPORT 1986
C0715400        CS883331        TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S RAPPORT WITH INTERVIEWER 1988
C0926100        CS906023        TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S RAPPORT WITH INTERVIEWER 1990
C1115600        CS926137        TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S RAPPORT WITH INTERVIEWER 1992
C1223000        CS94EV-1B       TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S RAPPORT WITH INTERVIEWER 1994
C1539900        CS96EV-1B       TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S RAPPORT WITH INTERVIEWER 1996
C1785000        CS98EV-1B       TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S RAPPORT WITH INTERVIEWER 1998
C2295600        CSEV-1B         TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S RAPPORT WITH INTERVIEWER 2000
C2574900        CSEV-1B         TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S RAPPORT WITH INTERVIEWER 2002

Cooperation (NOT perseverance):
C0525500        CS863134        CHILD'S COOPERATION 1986
C0715600        CS883333        TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S COOPERATION 1988
C0926300        CS906027        TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S COOPERATION 1990
C1115800        CS926141        TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S COOPERATION 1992
C1223200        CS94EV-1D       TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S COOPERATION 1994
C1540100        CS96EV-1D       TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S COOPERATION 1996
C1785200        CS98EV-1D       TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S COOPERATION 1998
C2295800        CSEV-1D         TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S COOPERATION 2000
C2575100        CSEV-1D         TESTING CONDITIONS: CHILD'S COOPERATION 2002


R20-2002 NLSY79 Child-Young Adult Public Release
June 2005

The following YA2002 items have the wrong distribution code assigned to them.
The correct codes are as follows:

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Reference                                                               Question 
Number     Variable Description                                         Number   
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Y14009.00  HOW OFTEN DOES R ARGUE WITH PARENTS ABOUT RULES?             YASR-3HB 
Y14012.00  HOW OFTEN DOES MOM KNOW WHO R IS WITH OUTSIDE THE HOME?      YASR-3HE 
Y14014.00  HOW OFTEN DOES DAD KNOW WHO R IS WITH WHEN R IS NOT HOME?    YASR-3HG 
Y14016.00  HOW OFTEN DOES STEP-DAD KNOW WHO R IS WITH WHEN R NOT HOME?  YASR-3HI 
Correct distribution code:
   1 Often
   2 Sometimes
   3 Hardly ever


Y14010.00 HOW MUCH DOES R TELL PARENTS ABOUT WHO THEY SOCIALIZE WITH? YASR-3HC Correct distribution code: 1 Nothing at all 2 Just a little 3 Some 4 A lot


Errata for NLSY79 Child Interview Dates 1986-1992

Errata for R19-2000 NLSY79 Child-Young Adult Public Release


Last Modified Date: June 30, 2009 - 06:10 AM

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