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Author: Haan, Michael
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1. Jones, Charles
Haan, Michael
Longitudinal Surveys of Children and Youth: Perspectives from Outside the USA
Presented: Philadelphia, PA, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 12, 2005
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: American Sociological Association
Keyword(s): Britain, British; British Cohort Study (BCS); British National Survey of Health & Development (NSHD); Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY); NCDS - National Child Development Study (British); Overview, Child Assessment Data

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Focusing on the issue of "external validity" we provide brief outlines of selected large scale longitudinal studies of child populations in Great Britain, Canada and the United States, each situated in its national and historical context. Examination of several such studies shows a considerable amount of variety beneath the label "longitudinal surveys". Canada's National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth appears to be midway between British and US models of longitudinal surveys of young children and, while as yet little known to US sociologists, appears to have greater external validity and ought to be superior for making policy-relevant estimates about child and adolescent populations.
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Jones, Charles and Michael Haan. "Longitudinal Surveys of Children and Youth: Perspectives from Outside the USA." Presented: Philadelphia, PA, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 12, 2005.