Data Collection for Older NLSY Children

描述(申请人提供)：我们的主要目标是通过2008年和2010年的数据收集，将NLSY79青年成人数据收集扩展到21岁及以上的青年。这些年轻人是NLSY79名女性受访者所生的年龄最大的孩子。这笔正在进行的赠款为2004/2006年采访21岁及以上青年提供了资金。在NICHD的支持下，所有NLSY79儿童自1986年以来每两年接受一次各种认知和社会情绪评估。将这些儿童测试数据与NLSY79整个生命周期中的一系列母亲、家庭和儿童的属性、行为和态度联系起来，使科学和社会科学领域的多个学科的研究人员能够开展一系列与方案和政策相关的研究。然而，对于许多研究人员来说，一个关键问题涉及儿童和青春期的发展轨迹与随后的成人成功和幸福之间的后续联系。自1994年以来，NICHD一直支持收集NLSY79名15岁及以上儿童(青壮年)的教育、就业、健康行为和态度信息。自2000年以来，对年龄最大的年轻人(21岁)的访谈得到了NICHD的一笔赠款的资助，这使得研究得以扩大，使用了他们十几岁时母亲的代际数据，以及从幼儿到青少年的多波数据，以探索青春期到成年早期的过渡。将这一数据收集延长至2010年，将使研究人员和政策分析人员能够探索科学界核心感兴趣的代内和跨代研究主题，重点是二十多岁的成年人。在2008/2010年，21岁的青壮年人数将增加，从而可以按性别、社会经济地位和种族/族裔进行更详细的分析，样本将变得更加多样化，增加青壮年样本的效用，以便作出更广泛的概括。这些数据在许多方面都与公共卫生有关。自1979年以来，从这些年轻人的母亲那里收集了关于她们所有怀孕、体重和药物使用情况的健康数据。从出生起就从年轻人那里收集健康数据，例如详细的产后健康问题和保健、身高和体重、事故和伤害、所有疾病的性质、情绪问题和哮喘史。年轻人回答与性行为、怀孕和活产有关的问题。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Our primary objective is to extend the NLSY79 young adult data collection for youth age 21 and over through the 2008 and 2010 data collection rounds. These youth represent the oldest children born to NLSY79 female respondents. The ongoing grant has provided funds for interviews with youth age 21 and over in 2004/2006. With NICHD support, all NLSY79 children have received a variety of cognitive and socio-emotional assessments biennially since 1986. Linking these child test data with a range of maternal, family and child attributes, behaviors and attitudes from the full NLSY79 life span has permitted researchers across multiple disciplines in the sciences and social sciences to carry out a range of programmatic and policy-relevant research. However, for many researchers, a critical issue concerns subsequent connections between the developmental trajectory in childhood and adolescence and subsequent adult success and well-being. Since 1994, the NICHD has supported collecting educational, employment, health behavioral and attitudinal information from NLSY79 children age 15 and over (young adults). Since 2000, interviews with the oldest young adults (21+) have been funded by a grant from NICHD, enabling an expansion of research using intergenerational data from their mothers when they were teenagers/early adults, plus multiple waves of data from early childhood through the teen years to explore adolescence to early adult transitions. Extending this data collection through 2010 will enable researchers and policy analysts to explore both within- and cross-generational research topics of core interest to the scientific community, focused on adults throughout their twenties. In 2008/2010 the number of young adults ages 21+ will increase, permitting more detailed analyses by gender, socioeconomic status and race/ethnicity, and the sample will become more heterogeneous, increasing the utility of the young adult sample for making broader generalizations. These data are relevant to public health in numerous ways. Data on health have been collected from the mothers of these young adults since 1979 relating to all their pregnancies, body mass and substance use. Health data have been collected from young adults since birth, e.g. detailed post-natal health issues and health care, height and weight, accidents and injuries, the nature of all illnesses, emotional problems, and asthma histories. Young adults answer questions relating to sexual behaviors, pregnancies and live births.