Collected Dataset / NLSY79_Military_2012

A military sample of 1,280 individuals was designed to represent the population born January 1, 1957, through December 31, 1961, serving in the military as of September 30, 1978.  The inclusion of the military sample allows comparative civilian-military analyses.

In 1985, interviewing of the full military sample ceased.  Retained were 201 military respondents randomly selected from the entire military sample.  Of these, 51 were cases that would have been selected as part of a random sample of youth including the military, and 150 additional cases were selected to provide a sufficient number of original military sample members to avoid overly large sampling variability for the military sample.  

Participants received a computer-assisted personal interview. 90.7% of interviews were collected by telephone. Only a sub-sample of 147 respondents from the NLSY79 Military Sample was interviewed. Economically disadvantaged, non-Black/non-Hispanic members of the supplemental sample were no longer interviewed.