National Longitudinal Survey of Older Men, 1966-1990 / Ohio State University. Center for Human ResourceResearch.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 4675.

ICPSR ; 4675

National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS) Series ; 4675

Language:

English

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

The National Longitudinal Survey of Older Men is one of six surveys, designed by the United States Department of Labor, comprising the National Longitudinal Survey (NLS) Series. The original purpose of the survey was to study employment patterns among men in their 40s and 50s who were on the verge of making decisions about the timing and extent of their withdrawal from the labor force and their plans for retirement. The survey was first administered to 5,020 respondents by interviewers from the United States Census Bureau in 1966. The survey was repeated a further 12 times between the years of 1967 and 1983. An additional version of the survey was completed by living respondents or by the widows or other family members of deceased respondents in 1990, and afterward it was discontinued. The survey queried respondents on 14 main subjects: labor market experiences, work-related discrimination, training investments, schooling information, military experiences, retirement plans and experiences, volunteer work and leisure-time activities, income and assets, physical well-being, health care and health insurance, alcohol and cigarette use, attitudes, aspirations, and psychological well-being. Also collected were geographic and environmental data, demographic and family background data, marital history, and number of children and dependents. An important portion of the survey was dedicated to the respondent's labor market experiences. Respondents were asked to provide information regarding their occupation, their working class, hours worked per week, rate of pay, and attitude toward their current job. Respondents were also asked about a variety of job-related activities including shift worked, union membership, length of commute, tenure, employment benefits, and eligibility for retirement benefits. Respondents who were unemployed or temporarily out of the labor force were aske... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04675

Contents:

Part 1: 1966; Part 2: 1967; Part 3: 1968; Part 4: 1969; Part 5: 1971; Part 6: 1973; Part 7: 1975; Part 8: 1976; Part 9: 1978; Part 10: 1980; Part 11: 1981; Part 12: 1983; Part 13: 1990

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2008-01-04.

Start: 1966; and end: 1990.

OCLC:

190871839

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Restricted for use by site license.