Investigator Navigation
This section describes how to use the various links and tabs to navigate within the Investigator.
- Select a Study. You can change to a different NLS cohort at any time. However, any unsaved information will be lost.
- Additional Resources.
- For additional cohort-specific documentation, click on the "Other Documentation" link to go to the cohort's section of nlsinfo.org. The "Errata" link will take you directly to a list of known data errors for the cohort of interest.
- Custom Weights program creates appropriate data weights for users using multiple waves of a survey.
- Start a New Search. Start a search from scratch within the same NLS cohort. Note that any unsaved selected variables will be lost.
- Choose Tagsets. This tab allows you to open saved tagsets or save a new tagset.
- Variable Search. Search the data set using various search criteria.
- Review Selected Variables. Review the variables you have selected in the current session.
- Codebook. Select this tab to see detailed information on each variable and study the flow of the instrument.
- Save / Download. Save and/or extract your variable sets.
Use the tabs as you investigate the variables. We recommend not to use the browser's back button.
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