• 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 public-use files via NLS Investigator at NLSinfo.org
• NLS public-use files via download at NLSinfo.org
• NLS Geocode data
• NLS zip code, census tract, and school survey data

Current

• January 23, 2008: America's Youth at 20: School Enrollment, Training and Employment Transitions between ages 19 and 20 [NLSY97 Round 9] (HTML) (PDF)
• June 27, 2008: Number of Jobs Held, Labor Market Activity, and Earnings Growth Among the Youngest Baby Boomers: Results from a Longitudinal Survey (HTML) (PDF)

Archived

• NLSY97 Releases
• NLSY79 Releases

• Average number of jobs started by individuals from age 18 to age 40 by age and sex (PDF 5K)
• Distribution of number of jobs held by individuals from age 18 to age 40 in 1978-2004 by educational attainment, sex, race, Hispanic ethnicity, and age (PDF 5K)
• Number of unemployment spells experienced by individuals from age 18 to age 40 in 1978-2004 by age, sex, race, and Hispanic ethnicity (PDF 5K)
• Number of unemployment spells experienced by individuals from age 18 to age 40 in 1978-2004 by educational attainment, sex, race, and Hispanic ethnicity (PDF 5K)

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• NLSY97 Round 9 Press Release: America's Youth at 20: School Enrollment, Training and Employment Transitions between ages 19 and 20 (HTML) (PDF)

General publications

• NLS Handbook (2005)
• "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 at NLSinfo.org

• NLSY97 User's Guide
• NLSY79 User's Guide
• NLSY79 Child and Young Adult User's Guide (2004)
• Mature Women's User's Guide (2001)
• Young Women's User's Guide (2001)
• 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

• 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.