Data Collection for Older NLSY Children

描述（由申请人提供）：我们的主要目标是通过2008年和2010年的数据收集回合，将NLSY 79年轻成人数据收集扩展到21岁及以上的年轻人。这些年轻人是NLSY 79名女性受访者所生的最大的孩子。正在进行的赠款为2004/2006年与21岁及以上青年的面谈提供了资金。在NICHD的支持下，自1986年以来，所有NLSY 79儿童每两年接受一次各种认知和社会情感评估。将这些儿童测试数据与整个NLSY 79生命周期的一系列母亲，家庭和儿童属性，行为和态度联系起来，使科学和社会科学多个学科的研究人员能够开展一系列计划和政策相关的研究。然而，对于许多研究人员来说，一个关键问题是儿童和青少年的发展轨迹与随后的成年成功和幸福之间的联系。自1994年以来，NICHD一直支持从NLSY 79名15岁及以上儿童（年轻成人）收集教育、就业、健康行为和态度信息。自2000年以来，与年龄最大的年轻人（21岁以上）的访谈得到了NICHD的资助，使研究能够扩大使用他们的母亲在青少年/早期成年时的代际数据，以及从幼儿到青少年的多波数据，以探索青春期到早期成年的过渡。将这一数据收集工作延长到2010年，将使研究人员和政策分析人员能够探讨科学界核心感兴趣的代内和跨代研究课题，重点是20多岁的成年人。在2008/2010年，21岁以上的年轻人的数量将增加，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，从而增加年轻人样本在进行更广泛的概括方面的效用。这些数据在许多方面与公共卫生有关。自1979年以来，从这些年轻成年人的母亲那里收集了有关其所有怀孕、体重和物质使用的健康数据。从出生起就收集了年轻人的健康数据，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、情绪问题和哮喘病史。年轻人回答有关性行为、怀孕和活产的问题。

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.