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Codebook Supplement

National Longitudinal Survey of Youth - 1979 Cohort

Codebook Supplement

These pages provide detailed technical information to supplement the information from the user's guide and the codebook pages in Investigator.

NLSY79 Attachment 3: Industrial and Occupational Classification Codes
NLSY79 Attachment 4: Fields of Study in College
NLSY79 Attachment 5: Index of Labor Unions and Employee Associations
NLSY79 Attachment 6: Other Kinds of Training Codes
NLSY79 Attachment 7: Other Certificate Codes
NLSY79 Attachment 8: Health Codes
NLSY79 Attachment 100: Geographic Regions
NLSY79 Attachment 101: Country Codes
NLSY79 Attachment 102: Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS)
NLSY79 Attachment 103: Religion Codes
NLSY79 Attachment 106: Profiles of American Youth (ASVAB Data/AFQT Scores)
NLSY79 Appendix 1: Employment Status Recode Variables (1979-1998 and 2006)
NLSY79 Appendix 2: Total Net Family Income Variable Creation (1979-2020)
NLSY79 Appendix 3: Job Satisfaction Measures
NLSY79 Appendix 4: Job Characteristics Index 1979-1982
NLSY79 Appendix 5: Supplemental Fertility and Relationship Variables
NLSY79 Appendix 6: Urban-Rural and SMSA-Central City Variables
NLSY79 Appendix 7: Unemployment Rate
NLSY79 Appendix 8: Highest Grade Completed & Enrollment Status Variable Creation
NLSY79 Appendix 9: Linking Employers from OnJobs Section to Employer Supplement and Through Survey Years
NLSY79 Appendix 11: Round 12 (1990) Survey Administration Methods
NLSY79 Appendix 12: Most Important Job Learning Activities (1993-94)
NLSY79 Appendix 13: Intro to CAPI Questionnaires and Codebooks
NLSY79 Appendix 14: Instrument Rosters
NLSY79 Appendix 15: Recipiency Event Histories
NLSY79 Appendix 16: 1994 Recall Experiment
NLSY79 Appendix 17: Interviewer Characteristics Data
NLSY79 Appendix 18: Work History Data
NLSY79 Appendix 19: SF-12 Health Scale Scoring
NLSY79 Appendix 20: Round 20 (2002) Early Bird and Income Recall Experiments
NLSY79 Appendix 21
NLSY79 Appendix 22: Migration Distance Variables for Respondent Locations
NLSY79 Appendix 23: Revised Asset and Debt Variables and Computed TOTAL Net Wealth Variables
NLSY79 Appendix 24: Reanalysis of the 1980 AFQT Data from the NLSY79
NLSY79 Appendix 25: Attitudinal Scale Scoring
NLSY79 Appendix 26: Non-Response to Financial Questions and Entry Points
NLSY79 Appendix 27: IRT Item Parameter Estimates, Scores and Standard Errors
NLSY79 Appendix 28: NLSY79 Employer History Roster
NLSY79 Appendix 29: Date of Interview Current Status Variables
NLSY79 Appendix 30: Programs for Assorted Created NLSY79 Variables
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