The NLSY97 is one of the major social science data sets in the U.S. The survey includes a random sample of America's teenagers at the beginning of the 21st Century, some 9000 youths age 12 -16 in 1997 who have been interviewed annually since 1997. The content of the survey includes the youth's schooling, earnings, family formation, and many social behaviors, attitudes and expectations. The course will acquaint students with the nature of large-scale, omnibus, national, longitudinal data sets; it will discuss many of the challenges of fielding such a survey; it will review the substantive findings from the NLSY97 to date; and it will provide opportunity to undertake analyses using this data resource.
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