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Appendix A: Survey Descriptions
Appendix A: Survey Descriptions
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Data collection instruments and methods are also listed, as well as information on the current status of the survey. All of the information appearing in this appendix was reviewed and approved by the survey's principal investigator and was current at the time of publication of this report.
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Social Statistics Research Unit, City University, London John Bynner and Peter Shepherd Social Statistics Research Unit, City University, London The NCDS is a continuing multidisciplinary longitudinal study that takes as its subjects all those living in Great Britain who were born March 3-9, 1958. It has its origins in the Perinatal Mortality Survey.
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Contact: John Bynner Peter Shepherd NCDS User Support Social Statistics Research Unit City University Northhampton Square London ECIV OHB Phone: (0171) 477-8484 Fax: (0171 ~ 477-8583 E-mail: ncds@ssru.city.ac.uk Robert Michael University of Chicago Harris Graduate School of Public Policy llSSE.60th St.
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The NLSCY is the first nationwide household survey on child health, development, and well-being in Canada. Data on the prevalence of and interaction among various characteristics and conditions will assist policy makers in understanding the processes that modify risk and protect and encourage the healthy development of children.
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· Parent questionnaire: Health, education, labor force activity and income, family functioning, depression, social support, neighborhood. · General child questionnaire: Child care, family and custody history, parenting style, health status and injuries.
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· Principal questionnaire: Composition of student population, school discipline, attendance and stability of school population, material and human resources, parental involvement. · Tests: Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, math computation, reading comprehension.
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951-9731 Fax: (613) 951-7333 E-mail: montgil@statcan.ca APPENDIX A Susan McKellar Applied Research Branch Human Resources Development Canada Phone: (819)
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family formation. Content: The NLSY79 child dataset contains information on health, school and family background, attitudes, cognitive and socioemotional development, and quality of the home environment of the sample children.
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children born to a nationally representative cross-section of women age 29-36 in 1994 and (2) all children born to a nationally representative sample of women age 14-21 in 1979.
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Software on the CD allows merges between the child and young adult cases and any item from the entire longitudinal main youth record of NLSY79 mothers. Comprehensive documentation and bibliographies are available at no charge.
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have a record of delinquency. In the study the characteristics of this group are compared with a control group of 81 nondelinquents from the same birth cohort.
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SURVEY DESCRIPTIONS 31 search assistants in interviews with subjects, parents, teachers, and neighborhood committees and through examination of police records and census data. In addition to type of delinquency and data of occurrence, data are obtained on education, type of community, occupation, income, marital status, age, race, sex, family cohesiveness, disciplinary punishments in school, learning attitude, goals in life, and bad habits.
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children's progress during the first two years of elementary school, kindergarten and first grade. Design: A nationally representative sample of approximately 15,000 children born during calendar year 2000.
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Parents will be the primary respondents. Data will also be gathered from child care and early education providers, schools and teachers, and the children themselves.
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Jerry West National Center for Education Statistics U.S. Department of Education To provide national data on (1)
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Data will be collected from the children, their parents/guardians, teachers, and schools. Contact: Jerry West National Center for Education Statistics U.S.
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Raikes, Project Monitor Louisa Tarullo, Project Officer Local research: See attached list Esther Kresh, Project Officer Increasing awareness of the problems facing low-income families with infants and toddlers led ACYF to launch this project in 1995. The Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project (EHSREP)
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The EHS Research and Evaluation Project, coordinated by the EHS research consortium of national and local researchers and ACYF, encompasses five major components: · An implementation study to examine service needs and use for lowincome families with infants and toddlers, assess program implementation, illuminate pathways to achieving quality, examine program contributions to community change, and identify and explore variations across sites. · An impact evaluation to analyze the effects of EHS programs on children, parents, and families in depth, using an experimental design descriptive study to assess outcomes for program staff and communities.
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. · Family development, including parent-child relationships, home environment, family functioning, family health, parental involvement, parent selfsufficiency, father involvement.
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· Synthesis Report, 2000: Synthesis of all aspects of the EHS evaluation for a broad audience. Agencies/Organizations Involved in Planning the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project: Administration on Children, Youth, and Families, Administration for Children and Families, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bureau of Maternal and Child Health, Department of Education, Health Resources and Services Administration, and the Department of Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Services for Families with Infants and Toddlers.
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40 Early Head Start Local Research Investigators: University of Arkansas, Little Rock Mark Swanson, Robert Bradley, and Richard Clubb University of California, Los Angeles Carollee Howes, Shira Rosenblatt, and Jane Wellencamp University of Colorado Health Sciences Center APPENDIX A Robert Emde, JoAnn Robinson, Paul Spicer, Jon Korfmacher, and Norman Watt (University of Denver) Catholic University of America Shavaun Wall, Christine Sabatino, Harriet Liebow, and Nancy Taylor Iowa State University Carla Peterson and Susan McBride University of Kansas Judith Carta, Jean Ann Summers, and Jane Atwater Michigan State University Rachel Schiffman, Cynthia Gibbons, Tom Reischl, and Hiram Fitzgerald University of Missouri, Columbia Kathy Thornburg, Mark Fine, and Jean Ispa New York University Mark Spellmann and Catherine Tamis-LaMonde University of Pittsburgh Carol McAllister, Robert McCall, and Beth Green (Portland State University)
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Department of Education National Opinion Research Center Aurora D'Amico and Jeffrey Owings National Center for Education Statistics U.S. Department of Education The National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88)
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Data came from student (original and new) questionnaires, dropout questionnaires, student achievement test scores, school administrator and teacher questionnaires, and a parent questionnaire focusing on the financing of postsecondary education.
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Dropout questionnaire: Reasons for leaving school, school attitudes and experiences, current activities (employment and education) , family background, future plans, self-opinion and attitudes, substance abuse, money and work, family composition and events, and language use.
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For example, NELS:88 data can be used to investigate the transition from middle to secondary school, students' academic growth over time, features of effective schools, the process of dropping out of school as it occurs from eighth grade on, the role of the school in helping disadvantaged students, the school experiences and academic performance of language-minority students, and factors associated with attracting students to the study of mathematics and science. Contact: Aurora D'Amico National Center for Education Statistics 555 New Jersey Ave., NW Washington, DC 20208 Phone: (202)
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Richard Udry Carolina Population Center University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Purpose: Add Health was designed to assess the health status of adolescents and to explore the causes of their health-related behaviors, focusing on the effects of the multiple contexts or environments (both social and physical) in which they live.
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· Adolescent and school networks constructed from school questionnaire responses. Questionnaire Topics: School Administrator Wave I · School characteristics and specialization.
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Adolescent In-home Interview-Wave I Majority of topics from in-school questionnaires repeated. Detailed relationship information about household members.
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Persons qualifying for the contractual data will receive individual datasets contain~ng: · 21,000 Wave I adolescent interviews with the school and parent questionnaire data attached (as available) ; 154 school administrator questionnaires Wave I; · 128 school administrator questionnaires Wave II; · Contextual data base (approximately 4,000 variables)
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966-2829 Fax: (919) 966-7019 E-mail: udry@unc.edu Chris Bachrach, Program Officer National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Phone: (301)
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Bureau of the Census National Opinion Research Center Randall Olsen Center for Human Resource Research Ohio State University The National Longitudinal Survey (NLS) was begun in the mid 1960's to collect data on the labor force experience of 20,000 participants, who were interviewed about such information as current employment status, work history, and characteristics of last job.
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SURVEY DESCRIPTIONS Frank Mott Center for Human Research 921 Chatham Lane, Suite 200 Columbus, OH 43221 Phone: (614) 442-7328 E-mail: mott@pewter.chrr.ohio-state.edu longitudinal appa 51 9/1198, 12:13 PM 51
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Both interviews have self-administered portions providing data on such issues as smoking, drinking, dating, religious beliefs, depression, and expectations. Information will also be obtained from school administrators and school transcripts.
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SURVEY DESCRIPTIONS Contact: Michael W Horrigan National Longitudinal Surveys Suite 4945 2 Massachusetts Ave., NE Washington, DC 20212-0011 Phone: (202)
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to explore the costs, feasibility, and effectiveness of alternative methods of tracking over time sampled immigrants after their initial contacts that will permit a longitudinal survey of a highly mobile population with minimal attrition; and (3) to obtain immediately useful information from the NIS pilot that would both aid in the design of survey instruments for the full survey and provide new and important information on recently admitted immigrants.
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The second type consists of data on characteristics and behavior unique to immigrants; such data include migration and language acquisition histories. Contact: Guillermina Jasso, New York University, jasso@is3.nyu.edu Douglas S
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Previously affiliated investigators are Mark Appelbaum, DeeAnn Batten, Kaye Fendt, and Henry Ricciuti. Description: The NICHD Study of Early Child Care is a natural history longitudinal study of the relationship between variations in child care and family rearing environments and the social, emotional, cognitive, linguistic, and health development of children from one month of age through first grade.
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and children's developmental outcomes, after taking into account the relationship between family and child predictors of the same developmental outcomes. Developmental outcomes include self-control, compliance, social interactions with parents and peers, children's attachment to mother, cognitive development, language development, attention, school readiness, growth, and health status.
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· An ecological theoretical model guides the investigation. The ecological conceptualization requires in-depth cumulative assessment of the environments in which children grow as well as assessment of their unfolding developmental outcomes.
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Early adolescence is a period of major biological and psychological transition. The extensive information that the NICHD study provides about child rearing and child development in infancy, the toddler years, and middle childhood provides a unique opportunity to study the predicted and unpredicted connections between early developmental processes and developmental outcomes in early adolescence.
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Sarah L Friedman, Director Program on Cognitive, Social, and Affective Development Child Development and Behavior Branch, NICHD 9000 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD 20892 Phone: (301)
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Sponsoring Organizations: Principal Investigator: Investigator's Institution: Purpose: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development William T Grant Foundation Annie E
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The study began in 1997 and will follow the children through adolescence and into adulthood. The sample has been oversampled for African Americans.
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challenged the research community to approach creatively the "why" of the development of delinquent behavior in order to provide a sound empirical basis for developing improved strategies for delinquency prevention and establishment of interdisciplinary teams to investigate the multicausal nature of antisocial behavior, including community, family, school, and individual difference influences. Description: There is some general agreement that one of the most appropriate ways to obtain a better understanding of delinquency and drug use is to conduct longitudinal studies that follow the same children and youth over extended periods of their lives.
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· Identifying developmental pathways through multiple contexts from childhood through early adulthood that lead to successful outcomes or serious delinquency. · Examining whether delinquency, drug use, and other antisocial behaviors are a single phenomenon, or whether they are distinctly different antisocial outcomes with different sets of causal factors.
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· Family variables: family demographics (family structure, occupation, education, income of parents) , child supervision and monitoring, discipline style and practices, family life events, marital discord/violence.
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66 APPENDIX A program is in process. Collaborative efforts with other researchers using program data in conjunction with other longitudinal datasets are in process.
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MacArthur Foundation National Institute of Justice National Institute of Mental Health Felton Earls Stephen Buka Harvard University The Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods is designed to offer a comprehensive understanding of human development and social behavior, with particular attention to the multilevel causes and effects of social competence versus antisocial behavior. The study will enhance current knowledge on factors leading to some of the nation's most serious public health problems, including delinquency, criminal behavior, violence, and substance abuse.
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. Using an accelerated longitudinal design, the LCS will follow children and youth as they move through childhood and adolescence into adulthood.
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population in order to evaluate recent federal welfare reform legislation and its impact on the American people. These data will provide the basis for an overall evaluation of how well welfare reforms are achieving the aims of the Clinton administration and the Congress and meeting the needs of the American people.
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Additional questions on children in the household will gather information on school status, activities at home, child care, health care, and child support. A few additional questions will be asked for sample persons who moved prior to the Bridge Survey and with whom an interview could not be obtained during 1997.
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other low-income families, and in doing so, shall pay particular attention to the issues of out-ofwedlock birth, welfare dependency, the beginning and end of welfare spells, and the causes of repeat welfare spells, and shall obtain information about the status of children participating in such panels." Special Features: The survey meets a specific need, to evaluate the effects of the 1996 welfare reforms, not currently addressed by other surveys. Future Outlook: Plans are to conduct this survey through the year 2002 to collect data that will enable interested persons to evaluate the 1996 federal welfare reform legislation and its impact on the American people.
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Hauser Center for Demography University of Wisconsin, Madison The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) is a long-term study of a random sample of 10,317 men and women who graduated from Wisconsin high schools in 1957.
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Minorities are not well represented; there are only a handful of African American, Hispanic, or Asian persons in the sample; given the longitudinal design of the WLS and the miniscule numbers of minorities in Wisconsin at the time the study began, there is no way to remedy this omission. About 19 percent of the NILS sample is of farm origin, which is consistent with national estimates of persons of farm origin in cohorts born in the late 1930s.
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Public releases of the WLS data are also available from DPLS: Data and Program Library Services University of Wisconsin-Madison 3313 Social Sciences Bldg. 1180 Observatory Dr.
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