Collected Dataset / NLSY79_Supplemental_1990

NLSY79_Supplemental_1990

NLSY79_Supplemental_1990

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Population

NLSY79 Supplemental Sample

A set of 5,295 individuals was designed to oversample civilian Hispanic or Latino, black, and economically disadvantaged, nonblack/non-Hispanic youths born January 1, 1957, through December 31, 1964. 

In 1991, the 1,643 members of the economically disadvantaged, non-Black/non-Hispanic supplemental sample were no longer interviewed.

Data Collection Event

NLSY79 1990 Interview

One quarter of participants were received a computer-assisted personal interview.  The remaining participants were interviewed with paper-and-pencil.  12.6% of interviews were collected by telephone.  Only a sub-sample of 201 respondents from the NLSY79 Military Sample was interviewed.