NLSY79 Appendix 14: Instrument Rosters

NLSY79 Appendix 14: Instrument Rosters
Instrument Rosters
In the paper and pencil (PAPI) questionnaires administered from 1979-1992, basic information about specific types of subjects (household members, children, etc.) was often recorded in a table or grid structure, and subsequently stored in a similar format. With computer assisted personal interviewing (CAPI), expanded electronic versions of these grids and tables were implemented.
During the course of the survey, a number of these matrices of data, or "rosters," are constructed. Rosters contain one or more pieces of information on a given subject. They are often presented to the interviewers as lists of information that are used to verify information, or from which one of the subjects on the roster is chosen as the answer to a survey question. For example, the EMPLOYER roster (a list of employers for whom the employer has worked since the date of last interview), is presented to the interviewer at the end of the ON JOBS) module of the survey, so that s/he can verify that the list of employers, and some specific information associated with each employer is accurate.
Many of the rosters used during the administration of the survey are not presented as contiguous blocks of data in the public release data. Often in these cases, the relevant information contained in these rosters is present in variables scattered throughout the public data. For instance, although the many variables found on the EMPLOYER roster are not present as a contiguous block, or a roster per se, much of the information contained in the roster is present in other variables in the Employer Supplements.
Occasionally, sets of created variables may also be loaded into a roster structure. The primary example of a roster constructed outside of a running survey is the EMPLOYER_HISTORY roster, which contains over 32,500 variables in the current public release data.
A number of commonly used rosters (or comparable grid items from the 1979-1992 PAPI questionnaires) are listed below, along with the formats of question names for those roster items, relevant areas of interest and helpful search criteria. Work continues on imposing more consistency on question names and substantive areas of interest, so users can expect to see improvements with each successive release. Changes will be reflected in accompanying documentation.
For further discussion of rosters, see NLSY79 Appendix 13.
Household Roster
The HHI_FINAL roster in the 1993-present electronic questionnaires replaced the Household Enumeration in the PAPI instruments from 1979-1992.
- Relevant Areas of Interest = HOUSEHOLD RECORD
- Roster Names for Survey Years 1979-1992 = HHI[FIELDNAME]
- Roster Names for Survey Years 1993-Present = HHI_FINAL_[FIELDNAME]
Employer Roster
The EMPLOYER roster did not exist in a cohesive fashion prior to 1993. However, most of the elements on this roster are included in a systematic fashion in the Employer Supplements sections for each survey year.
- Areas of Interest include WORK HISTORY - MAIN - JOB INFORMATION [YEAR] (through 2012); JOB INFORMATION; EARNINGS; INDUSTRY & OCCUPATION; PERIODS NOT WORKING WITHIN JOB TENURE
- Roster Names for Survey Years 1979-present = EMPLOYER_[FIELDNAME]
Biological Child Roster
The CHILD/BIOCHILD rosters in 1993-present replace the paper and pencil Biological Children's Record Form in the PAPI instruments from 1979-1992.
- Relevant Areas of Interest = CHILD RECORD FORM/BIOLOGICAL
- Roster Names for Survey Years 1979-1996 = BIO[FIELDNAME]
- Roster Names for Survey Years 1998-Present = BIOCHILD4_[FIELDNAME]
Users should note that variables in the FERTILITY AND RELATIONSHIP HISTORY/CREATED area of interest, survey year XRND, provide a cumulative and extensively reviewed record of biological children. These variables are updated with each survey round and contain the latest information available for gender, birthdate, death date (if applicable) and latest residential status for each biological child.
Non-biological Child Roster
The NBIOCHILD rosters in 1994-present replace the paper and pencil Non-biological Children's Record Form in the PAPI instruments from 1979-1992.
- Relevant Areas of Interest = CHILD RECORD FORM/NONBIOLOGICAL
- Roster Names for Survey Years 1979-1996 = NBIO[FIELDNAME]
- Roster Names for Survey Years 1998-Present = NBIOCHILD4_[FIELDNAME]
Cohorts
- NLSY97
- Topical Guide to the Data
- Asterisk Tables
- I. Employment, Unemployment, and Job Search (age restrictions as of interview date)
- II. Schooling (age restrictions as of 12/31/96)
- III. Training (age restrictions as of interview date)
- IV. Income, Assets, and Program Participation
- V. Family Formation (age restrictions as of end of previous calendar year--12/31/96 in rd 1, 12/31/97 in rd 2, and so on)
- VI. Family Background (age restrictions as of 12/31/1996)
- VII. Expectations
- VIII. Attitudes, Behaviors, and Time Use
- IX. Health (age restrictions as of 12/31/96)
- X. Political Participation
- XI. Environmental Variables (in main data set)
- Education
- Employment
- Household, Geography & Contextual Variables
- Family Background
- Marital History, Childcare & Fertility
- Income
- Health
- Attitudes
- Crime & Substance Use
- Asterisk Tables
- Intro to the Sample
- Using & Understanding the Data
- Other Documentation
- Codebook Supplement
- Introduction to the NLSY97 Created Variable Appendices
- Appendix 1: Education Variable Creation
- Enrollment Status and Highest Grade/Degree - Appendix 1
- Date Received Diploma or Degree - Appendix 1
- Number of Grades Repeated or Skipped - Appendix 1
- Number of Schools Attended - Appendix 1
- Credits Earned toward Bachelor's/Associate's Degree - Appendix 1
- Date Left High School and Highest High School Grade - Appendix 1
- Private or Parochial School - Appendix 1
- SAT/ACT Scores - Appendix 1
- Training: Receipt of Certificate or Vocational License - Appendix 1
- Appendix 2: Employment Variable Creation
- Appendix 3: Family Background and Formation
- Household Size as of Survey Date - Appendix 3
- Marital Status and Marital/Cohabitation History - Appendix 3
- Fertility and Child Status - Appendix 3
- Number of Residences since Age 12 - Appendix 3
- Current Citizenship Status - Appendix 3
- Mother's Age at First Birth/Respondent's Birth
- Relationship to Household Parent Figures (Round 1 Parent Interview) - Appendix 3
- Relationship to Household Parent Figures (Rounds 7-9 Childhood Retrospective) - Appendix 3
- Relationship to Household Parent Figures (Interview Date) - Appendix 3
- Appendix 4: Geographic Variable Creation
- Appendix 5: Income and Assets Variable Creation
- Appendix 6: Event History Creation and Documentation
- Appendix 7: Continuous Month Scheme and Crosswalk
- Appendix 8: Instrument Rosters
- Appendix 9: Family Process and Adolescent Outcome Measures
- Appendix 10: CAT-ASVAB Scores
- Appendix 11: Collection of the Transcript Data (High School)
- Appendix 12: Post-Secondary Transcript Study
- Attachment 1: Census Industrial & Occupational Classification Codes
- Geocode Codebook Supplement
- Introduction to NLSY97 Geocode Data
- Attachment 100: Census Bureau State and County Codes
- Attachment 101: Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)/Core-Based Statistical Area (CBSA) Codes
- Attachment 102: IPEDS Data and College Identification Codes
- Attachment 103: Migration Distance Variables for Respondent Locations
- Attachment 104: Codebook Pages for Geocode and Zipcode Variables
- Questionnaires
- Errata
- Errata for NLSY97 Round 17 Release
- Errata for NLSY97 Round 16 Release
- Addendum: Additional NLSY97 Speech & Post-Secondary Variables Available
- Addendum: NLSY97 Post-Secondary Data and Transcript Data Files Now Available
- Errata for NLSY97 Round 15 Release
- Errata for NLSY97 Round 14 Release
- Errata for NLSY97 Round 13 Release
- Errata for NLSY97 Round 12 Release
- Errata for NLSY97 Round 11 Release
- Errata for NLSY97 Round 10 Release
- Errata for NLSY97 Round 9 Release
- Errata for NLSY97 Round 8 Release
- Errata for NLSY97 Round 7 Release
- Errata for NLSY97 Round 6 Release
- Errata for NLSY97 Round 5 Release
- Errata for NLSY97 Round 4 Release
- Errata for NLSY97 Round 3 Release
- Tutorials
- Technical Sampling Report
- Codebook Supplement
- Get Data
- Topical Guide to the Data
- NLSY79
- Topical Guide to the Data
- Asterisk Tables
- Education
- Employment
- Employment: An Introduction
- Work Experience
- Jobs & Employers
- Class of Worker
- Discrimination
- Fringe Benefits
- Industries
- Job Characteristics Index
- Job Satisfaction
- Job Search
- Labor Force Status
- Military
- Occupations
- Time & Tenure with Employers
- Wages
- Work History Data
- Employer History Roster
- Business Ownership
- Retirement
- Household, Geography & Contextual Variables
- Family Background
- Marital History, Childcare & Fertility
- Income
- Health
- Attitudes
- Crime & Substance Use
- Intro to the Sample
- Using & Understanding the Data
- Other Documentation
- Get Data
- Topical Guide to the Data
- NLSY79 Child/YA
- Topical Guide to the Data
- Intro to the Sample
- Using & Understanding the Data
- Other Documentation
- Codebook Supplement
- Appendix A: HOME-SF Scales (NLSY79 Child)
- Appendix B: Composition of the Temperament Scales (NLSY79 Child)
- Appendix C: Motor & Social Development (NLSY79 Child)
- Appendix D: Behavior Problems Index (NLSY79 Child)
- Appendix D, Part 1: Composition of the BPI subscales
- Appendix D, Part 2a: BPI Anxious/Depressed Subscale
- Appendix D, Part 2b: BPI Antisocial Subscale
- Appendix D, Part 2c: BPI Dependent Subscale
- Appendix D, Part 2d: BPI Headstrong Subscale
- Appendix D, Part 2e: BPI Hyperactive Subscale
- Appendix D, Part 2f: BPI Peer Conflicts/Withdrawn Subscale
- Appendix D, Part 2g: BPI Full Scale
- Appendix D, Part 3a: BPI Internalizing Subscale
- Appendix D, Part 3b: BPI Externalizing Subscale
- Appendix D, Part 3c: BPI Total Scores
- Appendix E: Sample SPSSx Program for Merging NLSY79 Child/YA & Mother Files
- Appendix F: Sample SAS Program for Merging NLSY79 Child/YA & Mother Files
- Appendix G: NLSY79 Child Assessment Scores, Reference Numbers (2010-2014)
- Appendix H: Identification Codes in the Child and Young Adult Database
- Attachment 100: Codebook Pages for Young Adult Geocode Data
- Questionnaires
- Errata
- Errata for 2014 Child/Young Adult Release
- Data Addition: New Work and School Status Variables Created
- Errata for 2012 Child/Young Adult Release
- Errata for 2010 Child/Young Adult Release
- Errata for 2008 Child/Young Adult Release
- Errata for 2006 Child/Young Adult Release
- Errata for 2004 Child/Young Adult Release
- Errata for 2002 Child/Young Adult Release
- Errata for 2000 Child/Young Adult Release
- Errata for NLSY79 Child Interview Dates 1986-1992
- Research/Technical Reports
- Codebook Supplement
- Get Data
- NLS Mature and Young Women
- NLS Older and Young Men