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Title: Antecedents and Predecessors of NLSY79: Paving the Course
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Walker, James R. |
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Antecedents and Predecessors of NLSY79: Paving the Course Monthly Labor Review 128,2 (February 2005): 8-14. Also: http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2005/02/art2exc.htm Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor Keyword(s): Longitudinal Surveys; NLS Description A historical view of the NLSY79 development stages highlights lessons learned during an era filled with new concepts and innovations in sociology, economics, and computer science. In 1965, at the prompting of the Assistant Secretary of Labor, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, individuals from the Department of Labor (DOL) and Ohio State University designed the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience. At the time, the participants did not realize that they were creating one of the premier, large scale national longitudinal surveys in the United States. Initially funded for 5 years by the Department of Labor, the "Parnes" data, as the Original Cohorts were called, continued for 37 years, with the last scheduled fielding of the women samples in 2003.1 The success of the Original Cohorts led to the creation of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79). This article explores antecedents and predecessors of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979.2 Longitudinal data are now so plentiful that it is difficult to imagine the world in which they did not exist. Yet, in the mid-1960s, the large scale longitudinal household surveys that came to dominate areas of sociology, demography, and labor economics did not exist. Analyses that are now commonplace were either not possible or inference was restricted to small or specialized samples. |
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Walker, James R. "Antecedents and Predecessors of NLSY79: Paving the Course." Monthly Labor Review 128,2 (February 2005): 8-14.
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