Note that some area of interest names were changed in 2000 to make them more understandable. If the name of an area changed, the old name appears in parentheses; if no change occurred, only one name is listed.
Description: This area of interest contains the variables relating to each respondent’s consumption of alcohol in the last month, how frequently it was used, quantity consumed, and whether such consumption has impacted school work or job performance. The 1988 survey included questions on relatives of the respondent who were problem drinkers, including length of time the respondent resided with such relatives. The 1989 survey collected information on the extent to which the use of alcohol interfered, during the past year, with various aspects of the respondent’s life. Exception: alcohol questions fielded during 1992 can be found in the “Drugs” area of interest.
Sources of Data: The “Alcohol Use” sections of the 1982–85, 1988, 1989, and 1994 questionnaires.
Related Areas of Interest: See also the “Drugs,” “Illegal,” and “Family Background” files for data on alcohol use and the various birth record files for drug and alcohol use during pregnancy information.
Name: Assets
Description: This area of interest identifies the asset information collected during the 1985–90 and 1992–2004 surveys, e.g., types of and total market value of property owned by the respondent (e.g., real estate, farm, business); the value of other assets, including vehicles and savings accounts; and the total amount of debts owed, including mortgages, back taxes, and debts over $500.
Sources of Data: The "Assets" & "Income" sections of the 1985-90 and 1992-2004 questionnaires.
Related Areas of Interest: Income
Name: Attitudes & Influence (formerly ATTINFLN)
Description: This area of interest contains the discrete set of nine variables dealing with the attitude of the most influential person in each respondent’s life toward certain key career, occupational, residence, and childbearing decisions.
Sources of Data: The "On Significant Others" section of the 1979 questionnaire.
Related Areas of Interest: See the "Attitude" area of interest for self-esteem, Rotter's locus of control variables, the Pearlin mastery series, etc.
Name: Attitude
Description: This area of interest contains an assortment of variables from the various survey years dealing with each respondent’s knowledge of the world of work; perceived problems in getting a good job; the Rotter Internal-External Locus of Control Scale; the Pearlin Mastery Scale; the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, the CES-D questions; respondent’s attitudes toward women and work; occupational aspirations, work commitment; future expectations about marriage, education and employment; and knowledge of AIDS.
Sources of Data: The “World of Work,” “Rotter Scale,” “Family Attitudes,” “Aspirations & Expectations,” and “AIDS Knowledge” sections of the 1979–84 and 1987–88 questionnaires, and the “Health” section of the 1992 and 1994 questionnaires.
Related Areas of Interest: See also the “Attitudes toward Job Offer” and “Attitudes & Influence” files. The CES-D questions in the special health module administered as respondents turn age 40 are in the “Health Module 40 & Over” area of interest.
Name: Attitudes toward Job Offer (formerly ATTJBOFR)
Description: This area of interest contains a select number of questions dealing with whether respondents would accept various hypothetical job offers to work at certain jobs at varying pay rates, e.g., would the respondent accept a full-time job making hamburgers at $2.50 or $3.50 or $5.00 an hour.
Sources of Data: The "On Jobs/Pay" section of the 1979 questionnaire.
Name: Birth Record xxxx (formerly BIRTHRXX)
Description: Beginning in 1985, these areas of interest contain an update to the pregnancy/live birth record, contraceptive use in past month, expected next birth, wantedness information, a menarche and first intercourse update, residence of biological and non-biological children, prenatal care, illnesses and well baby care, infant feeding practices, and child visitation practices of the absent parent.
Sources of Data: The "Fertility" section of the questionnaire from 1985 through the latest available year.
Related Areas of Interest: Children, Birth Record, Fertility and Relationship History/Created
Name: Birth Record (formerly BIRTHREC)
Description: This area of interest contains a complete retrospective on all pregnancies for female respondents and all live births for male respondents, including ideal/expected number of children; dates of birth and death, sex, and current residence for all live births; dates of all pregnancy losses; and current and retrospective contraceptive use. In addition, data for 1983 and 1984 contain information on age at first intercourse, prenatal health care, and infant feeding practices, while the 1984 survey data includes a confidential abortion report, visitation practices of the parent not living in the same household with child, and information on sex education courses attended by respondent.
Sources of Data: The "Fertility" sections of the 1982, 1983, and 1984 questionnaires; the 1984 confidential abortion card; and the 1983 Fertility Supplement.
Related Areas of Interest: "Children," the 1985-2004 "Birth Record xxxx" files, and "Fertility and Relationship History/Created."
Name: Between Jobs Gaps (formerly BTWNJOBS)
Description: This area of interest contains information on what the respondent was doing during the time periods when he or she was not employed or in the military, e.g., information on weeks not working, weeks spent looking for work, and reason not looking for work. This information is available for up to six periods for each survey year.
Sources of Data: The various questionnaire sections entitled "On Periods When R Not Working or in Military" or "Gaps."
Name: Childcare (formerly CHILDCAR)
Description: This area of interest contains, for the 1982–85 survey years, information on location and types of childcare used and types of childcare expenses incurred over the past four weeks for certain children whose mothers were employed, in school, or in training. The 1986 and 1988 questionnaires collected similar information from all mothers, including a first-three-years-of-life retrospective for all biological children. The 1992 information is gathered on childcare arrangements used during the first three years of life. The 1994–2004 information updates childcare from previous years for children’s’ first three years of life, if not complete. The 1989 survey contained one question, asked of employed respondents, regarding the impact of childcare problems on their employment situation.
Sources of Data: The "Childcare" sections of the 1982-86, 1988, 1992, 1994, 2002, and 2004 questionnaires and the "Fertility" section of the 1987 and 1989 questionnaires.
Related Areas of Interest: Child Record Form/Biological, Child Record Form/Nonbiological, Misc. xxxx, Government Jobs, Government Training, and Time Use.
Name: Children
Description: This area of interest contains the limited number of fertility questions that were asked during the 1979–81 surveys. Included are data on dates of birth for each live birth, number of children wanted/expected, ideal family size, and when the next child is expected.
Sources of Data: The "Fertility" sections of the 1979-81 questionnaires.
Related Areas of Interest: "Birth Record," the 1985-2004 "Birth Record xxxx" files, and "Fertility and Relationship History/Created."
Name: Common
Description: This area of interest contains commonly used variables from several survey years. Included are (1) each respondent’s identification number, sample type, race, sex, and date of birth; (2) identification numbers/relationship codes of other youth in the same household who were interviewed in 1979; (3) the household identification number; (4) interview-specific information including reason for non-interview, week numbers of interview date and of last interview, etc.; and (5) various employment status variables.
Sources of Data: The variables listed in “Common” are a composite of assigned codes, created variables, and information from the 1978 screener and/or the regularly administered questionnaires.
Name: CPS
Description: This area of interest contains Current Population Survey variables that establish current labor force status, i.e., activity during most of survey week (employed, unemployed, out of the labor force). Included are job characteristics, global job satisfaction, and hours worked per week for current/most recent job, job search behavior for those unemployed, and plans to seek employment for those out of the labor force. The 1993 commuting time and transportation method variables are located in this area of interest. The CPS section was not included in the 2000-2004 surveys.
Sources of Data: The "Current Labor Force Status - CPS Questions" section of each survey instrument with the exception of the 2000-2004 surveys.
Related Areas of Interest: See also the "Key Variables" and "Job Information" files for created employment variables and the "Misc. xxxx" files for additional CPS variables.
Name: CPS 2nd Self-Correct 1994 (CPSBK294), CPS 1994 (CPS94), CPS 1996 (CPS96), CPS 2nd Self-Correct 1996 (CPSBCK296), CPS 1st Self-Correct 1994 (CPSBCK94), CPS 1st Self-Correct 1996 (CPSBCK96)
Description: These areas of interest contain variables from the revised CPS section beginning in 1994.
Sources of Data: The "Current Labor Force Status - CPS Questions" section of each survey instrument.
Related Areas of Interest: See also the "Key Variables" and "Job Information" files for created employment variables and the "Misc. xxxx" files for additional CPS variables.
Name: Child Record Form/Biological (formerly CRFBIO)
Description: This area of interest contains information from the Children’s Record Form, an interviewing aid used in the 1985–98 surveys to (1) enumerate all biological children; (2) provide identifying information on each child, e.g., an identification number, date of birth, sex, deceased or adopted status; and (3) identify missing health care and feeding practice information, which needed to be gathered during select surveys.
Sources of Data: The Children's Record Forms (CRF).
Related Areas of Interest: Birth Record xxxx, Child Record Form/Nonbiological, Childcare
Name: Child Record Form/Nonbiological (formerly CRFNBIO)
Description: This area of interest contains information from the Children’s Record Form, an interviewing aid which was used in the 1985–98 surveys to (1) enumerate all nonbiological children and (2) provide identifying information on each child, e.g., an identification number, date of birth, sex, deceased or adopted status.
Sources of Data: The Children's Record Forms (CRF).
Related Areas of Interest: Birth Record xxxx, Child Record Form/Biological
Name: Degrees & Certificate (formerly DGRECERT)
Description: This area of interest contains various types of information from the 1979–84 and 1988–2004 surveys including the types of college degrees, other certificates, and licenses (including driver’s license) that respondents received prior to the first interview and since last interview.
Sources of Data: The "Other Training" and "Regular Schooling" sections of the 1979-84, 1988-2004 questionnaires.
Related Areas of Interest: School
Name: Drugs
Description: This area of interest contains responses to the special sets of drug questions that were asked in the 1984, 1988, 1992, 1994, and 1998 surveys. Included is information on age at first use and extent of use of such substances as cigarettes, marijuana/hashish, amphetamines, barbiturates, cocaine, heroin, and other drugs; a monthly retrospective look at respondents’ use of marijuana/hashish during 1979–84; and use of such substances on the job. The 1992 variables relating to alcohol use are located in the “Drugs” area of interest.
Sources of Data: The "Drugs" section of the 1984 and 1988 questionnaires and the 1988, 1992, 1994, and 1998 Drug Use Supplements.
Related Areas of Interest: See also the “Alcohol” and “Illegal” areas of interest for questions on alcohol and marijuana use as well as drug dealing. The various birth record files contain variables on cigarette, alcohol, and other drug use during pregnancy.
Name: Family Background (formerly FAMBKGN, FAMBKGD)
Description: These areas of interest contain the extensive family background information gathered in the 1979 survey: country/state of respondent’s birth; identification of persons with whom the respondent lived at age 14; birthplace, education, and work experience of respondent’s mother and father; racial/ethnic origin; periods of time residing with parents; etc. Also included in this file are the religious affiliation and attendance questions asked in 1979 and 1982; the 1979, 1980, and 1982 residential mobility questions; identification of the language used in the administration of the household interview forms for each survey year; the detailed set of childhood residence questions asked during the 1988 survey; the special set of immigration questions collected during 1990 on aspects of the respondent’s first and most recent entry into the U.S.; and the 1993 sibling roster series. This area of interest also contains family background information on twins and triplets that was gathered in the 1994 survey. The questions were designed to verify these special sibling pairings.
Sources of Data: Various sections from the 1979–87 questionnaires including the “Family Background” and “Residence” sections, as well as the Household Interview Forms. The 1988 data were collected from the “Childhood Residence” section of the survey instrument and the accompanying Childhood Residence Calendar. The 1990 immigration information was collected using the “Immigration” section of the questionnaire. The 1993 sibling questions can be found in “Marital Status.”
Name: Fertility and Relationship History/Created (formerly FERTILE)
Description: \This area of interest contains constructed and edited fertility variables including (1) revisions to dates of birth, gender, and usual living arrangements for all respondents’ children; (2) other constructed variables commonly used in fertility research, i.e., beginning and ending dates of marriages, age at first marriage, at first birth, spacing between births, and between marriage and first birth, etc.; and (3) a variable evaluating the consistency of the longitudinal fertility record.
Sources of Data: Entirely created variables based on the 1982-2002 fertility data and 1979-2000 marriage data.
Related Areas of Interest: "Children," "Child Record Form/Biological," "Birth Record," and the 1985-2002 "Birth Record xxxx" files.
Name: Geocode xxxx (formerly GEOXX)
Description: This area of interest contains information on residential-geographic variables and environmental characteristics of each respondent’s county and SMSA of current residence.
Sources of Data: County & City Data Book, City Reference File, Appendix 10 in the NLSY79 Codebook Supplement
Related Areas of Interest: Family Background, Key Variables, Misc. xxxx
Name: Government Training (formerly GOVTRAIN)
Description: This area of interest contains information on up to two government training programs in which a respondent was enrolled since the last interview. Included is information on the name of the government training sponsor, current enrollment status, dates/hours of participation, periods of nonparticipation, whether the program was part of a CETA/JTPA or WIN affiliated program, type of occupational/OJT training received, types of training services provided (job counseling, GED preparation, classroom training, skills training, etc.), various supportive services received, and income/rate of pay received during participation.
Sources of Data: The "On Government Training" sections of each questionnaire.
Related Areas of Interest: Training, Government Jobs
Description: This area of interest contains information on the presence of health conditions preventing or limiting labor market activity including, for select survey years, the specific types of health conditions, their causes, and parts of the body affected. The 1988–90 and 1992–2000 questions on work-related injuries, including the type of injury and its impact on employment and the 1989, 1990, and 1992–2004 source of health/hospitalization insurance variables are located in this area of interest.
Sources of Data: The "On Health" sections of each questionnaire.
Related Areas of Interest: See also “Alcohol” and “Drugs,” as well as the several birth record files for prenatal, neonatal, and infant health and health-related issues. The special questions asked as respondents reach age 40 are located in the “Health Module 40 & Over” area of interest.
Name: Household Record (formerly HHRECORD)
Description: This area of interest contains information for up to 15 household members currently living in the respondent’s household, including each person’s sex, relationship to respondent, age, highest grade completed, and work experience in past year. The household enumeration is completed during the household interview each survey year.
Sources of Data: The various versions of the Household Interview Forms.
Related Areas of Interest: The specific version of the household record form administered to a given respondent can be found in the “Misc. xxxx” files for 1979-1986; the language in which the household record form was administered is in the “Interviewer Remarks” file; and income variables from the household record form are found in “Income.”
Name: Health Module 40 & Over (formerly HLTHMOD40)
Description: The goal of this area of interest is to gather a complete health inventory to help researchers understand a respondent’s work conditions, limitations and highlight relationships between health and retirement decisions. The age of 40 was selected so that NLSY79 researchers have a baseline report on a respondent’s health conditions before more serious problems develop in older age.
Sources of Data: Contains the SF-12 scale, questions on parental health modified from the NLS of Mature Women survey, and questions primarily taken from the HRS (Health and Retirement Survey).
Related Areas of Interest: Health, Drugs, Alcohol, Jobs
Description: This area of interest contains information on respondents’ participation in and income from various delinquent and criminal activities such as skipping school, alcohol/marijuana use, vandalism, shoplifting, drug dealing and robbery as well as reported contacts with the criminal justice system.
Sources of Data: The "Delinquency and Drugs" and "Reported Police Contacts" sections of the 1980 questionnaire as well as the confidential questionnaire supplement Form J.
Related Areas of Interest: Alcohol, Drugs
Name: Income
Description: This area of interest contains information on income received in the past calendar year from various sources including (1) earned income of the respondent and spouse from such sources as military service, wages and salary, and farm or own business; (2) monthly income amounts received by the respondent and spouse from Unemployment Compensation, AFDC, food stamps, and other public assistance; (3) sources of income for other family members; and (4) other components of the computed variable ‘Total Net Family Income’.
Sources of Data: The "Income" section of each questionnaire and the income questions of the various Household Interview Forms.
Related Areas of Interest: Assets, Key Variables
Name: Interviewer Remarks (formerly INTRMK)
Description: This area of interest contains interview-specific and interviewer comment information, including the dates and length of each interview; type of interview (personal or telephone); whether the interview was conducted with a proxy; a record of the attempts made to locate each respondent; language used to conduct the interview; various interviewer remarks on respondent’s race, attitude, understanding of the questions, and presence of anyone else during the interview; and interviewer identification codes.
Sources of Data: The "Interviewer Remarks" section of each questionnaire.
Related Areas of Interest: Misc. xxxx
Name: Job Search (formerly JOBFIND)
Description: This area of interest contains information on (1) the job search methods (state or private employment offices, classified ads, friends and relatives, labor unions, etc.) used by unemployed respondents to find employment; (2) the success of the various methods; (3) reason for nonacceptance of any job offers obtained; (4) rate of pay for the job offer; and (5) questions on methods used to find specific jobs reported in 1994–2002. The reference period differs across survey years, with the 1981 questions directed towards job search methods used in the past four weeks, the 1982 questions towards the most recent job obtained, the 1986 questions detailing the methods used in each of the past 12 months, and the 1987 series gathering information on the methods used each month (for up to six months) during the least recent period not employed. There are no questions in the “Job Search” area of interest from 1988 to 1993. In 1994, 1996, and 2000, this area of interest contains questions that state the job search methods that lead to the current job plus a record of all methods used while searching. Additionally, information is available on the pay rates of rejected job offers.
Source of Data: The “Job Search” section of the 1981 questionnaire; the “Job Finding” section of the 1982 questionnaire; and the “On Periods When R Not Working or in Military” section of the 1986 and 1987 questionnaires.
Related Areas of Interest: “Misc. xxxx” for methods of seeking employment in past four weeks (CPS series); “CPS 1994,” “CPS 1st Self-Correct 1994,” “CPS 1996,” “CPS 1st Self Correct 1996,” and “CPS 1998” for job search methods in the last four weeks; “CPS 1996” for questions on job search while employed.
Name: Job Information (formerly JOBINFO)
Description: This area of interest contains information on the jobs each respondent held since the date of last interview, including start-stop dates of employment, hours worked, reason left job, and job characteristics (e.g., occupation, class of worker, rate of pay, wages set by collective bargaining for up to five jobs held). A series of tenure variables reflecting the total tenure in weeks accumulated for each of up to five employers was added for each year to the NLSY79 data release beginning in 1991.
Sources of Data: The "Jobs" section of the 1979 questionnaire and from 1980 onward the Employer Supplements.
Related Areas of Interest: CPS (some years), Jobs
Name: Jobs
Description: This area of interest contains select variables relating to (1) jobs held since last interview and (2) whether those jobs were part of a cooperative work study program, college work study program, or some type of government-sponsored job held since the last interview.
Sources of Data: The "On Jobs" section of each questionnaire.
Name: Jobs before 1978 (formerly JOBSB478)
Description: This area of interest contains the 12 variables asked in the 1979 survey dealing with characteristics of the job in which the respondent last worked for two or more consecutive weeks. Included is information on date last worked, occupation and industry codes of job, class of worker, and whether the job was a government job or in private business.
Sources of Data: The "On Last Job Lasting Two Weeks or More" section of the 1979 questionnaire.
Name: Jobs after School (formerly JOBSCHL)
Description: This area of interest contains a limited number of variables on respondent’s work experience prior to the 1979 interview. Information on weeks and hours worked in 1975, 1976, and 1977, as well as characteristics of the first job a respondent held after s/he left school including dates of employment, industry/occupation, pay rate, hours worked, and reason left first job, is provided.
Sources of Data: The "On Work Experience Prior to January 1, 1978" section of the 1979 questionnaire.
Name: Key Variables (formerly KEYVARS)
Description: This area of interest contains the *KEY* variables as well as other summary variables created by the Center for Human Resource Research from raw data. They encompass a wide range of employment, military, education, income, poverty status, local labor market unemployment rate, and various other geographic-related variables.
Sources of Data: The variables on this file are all created with the exception of the 'Type of Residence' variables, which are derived from the Household Interview Forms.
Related Areas of Interest: This area of interest contains the primary longitudinal (all main file) created variables. Other constructed variables can be found in “Job Information,” the supplemental “Fertility and Relationship History/Created” area of interest, and the special NLSY79 geocode, work history, and child data files.
Name: Last Interview Information (formerly LASTINFO)
Description: This area of interest contains key information on the respondent that was collected at the last interview (e.g., dates of last interview, marital status, number of children, high school completion status, names of previous employers, etc.). These data appear on the Information Sheet, which is used by the interviewers or the CAPI software to route the respondent through the survey.
Sources of Data: The Information Sheet for each survey year. Note: Data that appear on the interviewer's Information Sheet are found in the codebook following the main survey variables.
Name: Machine Check (formerly MACHCHK)
Description: This area of interest contains miscellaneous machine checks/functions from various sections in CAPI surveys.
Name: Marriage
Description: This area of interest contains (1) the respondent’s marital status at each survey date, changes in marital status since last interview, and dates of each marital status change and (2) information on respondent’s spouse such as birth/death dates, occupation, educational attainment, labor force status, religious affiliation, and health limitations. The 1988, 1992, and 1994–2004 interviews included questions on marital attitudes and dating experiences of those not currently married.
Sources of Data: The "Marital History" and "Fertility" sections of the questionnaires.
Related Areas of Interest: Additional marital history variables can be found in the "Fertility and Relationship History/Created," "Key Variables," and "Attitude" areas of interest.
Name: Military
Description: This area of interest contains information on respondents’ enlistment intentions, attitudes toward the military, dates of military service/reserve duty, branch of service, military occupation, pay grade and income, education and training received, and reasons left military or reenlisted.
Sources of Data: The "Military" sections of the 1980 to most recent questionnaire.
Related Areas of Interest: See "Key Variables" and the "Misc. 1979" file for additional 1979 military variables.
Name: Misc. xxxx (formerly MXXVAR)
Description: This area of interest contains miscellaneous variables not grouped elsewhere. These variables are collected in various topical areas from different years.
Name: Periods Not Working within Job Tenure (formerly PERIODNW)
Description: This area of interest contains detailed information on the time periods a respondent was with a job but not working (up to four periods) and reasons for not working for each of five jobs held during the survey year.
Sources of Data: The "Jobs" section of the 1979 questionnaire and the 1980 to most recent Employer Supplements.
Related Areas of Interest: Job Information
Name: Profiles - Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) 1980
Description: This area of interest contains all of the variables from the 1980 administration of the ASVAB, including individual respondent scores, scale scores, and standard errors for each of the ten ASVAB test sections. Also provided are respondent sampling weight, high school graduate status, characteristics of the test administration for each respondent, and two AFQT percentile scores.
Sources of Data: The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB).
Related Areas of Interest: All ASVAB administration variables are located within the "Profiles" file. See also the "School Survey" area of interest for aptitude and intelligence scores and the "School" area of interest for other education-specific variables.
Name: School Survey (formerly SCHLSURV)
Description: This area of interest contains all data generated from the 1980 survey of non-foreign schools attended by civilian NLSY79 respondents who had completed a school release form during the 1979 interview. It includes: (1) respondent-specific information on school enrollment status, highest grade attended, remedial classes taken, and scores/percentiles/grade levels for various intelligence and aptitude tests and (2) school-specific information including data on the school’s total enrollment, grading system, types of curricula offered, dropout rate, student body composition, and staffing characteristics.
Sources of Data: Data were collected with the "School Questionnaire" and the "Student's School Record Information" form, copies of which can be found in the NLSY High School Transcript Survey: Overview and Documentation.
Related Areas of Interest: The "Transcript Survey" area of interest contains respondent-specific information on high school coursework.
Name: School
Description: This area of interest contains information on each respondent’s school enrollment status, i.e., whether he or she is currently enrolled in school, the highest grade attended or completed, type of high school curriculum, attainment of a high school diploma or GED, major field of study in college, and a variety of other college-related variables.
Sources of Data: The "Regular Schooling" section of each survey instrument.
Related Areas of Interest: The "Income" area of interest contains the total amount of educational benefits received in the past calendar year.
Description: This area of interest contains select timings from beginning and end of surveys of various CAPI years.
Name: Time Use (formerly TIMEUSE)
Description: This area of interest contains responses to the special set of questions asked in the 1981 survey about each respondent’s use of time during the past seven days, e.g., how much time was spent working, commuting, attending school or various training programs, sleeping, watching TV, caring for children, or completing household chores.
Sources of Data: The six "Time Spent" sections of the 1981 questionnaire.
Name: Training
Description: This area of interest contains information on multiple types of vocational/technical training in which a respondent was enrolled since the last interview. Included is information on dates of enrollment and completion, type of school, completion status, and any subsequent training received. Recent surveys have collected data on the usefulness of the training acquired for the respondent’s job, whether participation was necessary to obtain a promotion, the benefits of each training program in terms of actually getting a promotion or obtaining a different job, and the transferability of skills (1993–94 series).
Sources of Data: The "Other Training" sections of each questionnaire.
Related Areas of Interest: See also the "Government Training" area of interest. Also see the Employer Supplements in 1993 and 1994 for informal training and learning the job information.
Name: Transcript Survey (formerly TRANSURV)
Description: This area of interest contains information collected during 1980, 1982, and 1983 from the school transcripts of civilian NLSY79 respondents. Data are available for up to 64 courses taken by each surveyed respondent including information on high school subject, final grade, source of the final grade, and credit received.
Sources of Data: The separate "Transcript Coding Sheet," a copy of which can be found in NLSY High School Transcript Survey: Overview and Documentation.
Related Areas of Interest: The “Misc. 1981” area of interest contains additional transcript survey variables. The “School Survey” area of interest contains additional school-specific information on enrollment, grading system, and type of curricula offered.