• National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97)-- Survey of young men and women born in the years 1980-84; respondents were ages 12-17 when first interviewed in 1997.
• National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79)-- Survey of men and women born in the years 1957-64; respondents were ages 14-22 when first interviewed in 1979.
• NLSY79 Children and Young Adults-- Survey of the biological children of women in the NLSY79.
• National Longitudinal Surveys of Young Women and Mature Women (NLSW)-- The Young Women's survey includes women who were ages 14-24 when first interviewed in 1968. The Mature Women's survey includes women who were ages 30-44 when first interviewed in 1967. These surveys are now conducted simultaneously in odd-numbered years.
• National Longitudinal Surveys of Young Men and Older Men-- The Young Men's survey, which was discontinued in 1981, includes men who were ages 14-24 when first interviewed in 1966. The Older Men's survey, which was discontinued in 1990, includes men who were ages 45-59 when first interviewed in 1966.

• NLS Data Files on CD
• Order NLS Data
• How to order Geocode Data
• Other Confidential data

Current

• August 25, 2004: Number of Jobs Held, Labor Market Activity, and Earnings Growth Among Younger Baby Boomers: Results from More Than Two Decades of a Longitudinal Survey [NLSY79 Round 20] (HTML) (PDF)
• February 18, 2004: Employment of Teenagers During the School Year and Summer [NLSY97 Round 5] (HTML) (PDF)

Archived

• NLSY97 Releases
• NLSY79 Releases

• NEW The NLSY79 public-use file that includes data from rounds 1-20 (1979-2002) was released in June 2004. The NLSY79 restricted-access geocode file that includes information on each respondent's state, county, and metropolitan area of residence in rounds 1-20 is also available. For more information, see NLS News, No. 04-117 (NLSY79 data for Round 20 now available) (PDF 184KB)
• NEW The NLSY97 main public-use file that includes data from rounds 1-6 (1979-2003) was released in June 2004. The NLSY97 event history and restricted-access geocode files will be available in October 2004.
• NEW The NLSY79 Child-young adult file that includes data from rounds 1-9 (1986-2002) was released in June 2004.

General publications

• NLS Handbook (2003)
• "NLS News" Newsletter --This quarterly newsletter includes information about new data releases, error notices, completed NLS research and other information of interest to researchers.

Technical manuals

• NLSY97 User's Guide (2002)
• NLSY79 User's Guide (1999)
• NLSY79 Child and Young Adult User's Guide (2000)
• Mature Women's User's Guide (2001)
• Young Women's User's Guide (2000)
• List of manuals and summary reports available

NLS Publications

• Work and Family
• NLS Discussion Paper Series
• Reports on Youth Employment
• Monthly Labor Review Articles
• Annotated Bibliography

• NLSY97 Variable Selection and Data Request --Request and download up to 250 variables from the NLSY97 1997, 1998 and 1999 interviews.

• Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey--national data on employment, unemployment, earnings, and other labor market topics by demographic characteristics.
• Census Bureau Population and Household Topics
• National Longitudinal Surveys Annotated Bibliography-- Descriptions of over 3,000 NLS-based journal articles, working papers, monographs, and dissertations stored in a searchable electronic database.
• National Data Sets-- The Research Forum encourages collaborative research and informed policy on welfare reform, child and family well-being, and community-related issues. The website includes a list publicly available nationally representative data sets.