Education and the Transition to Adulthood

描述（由申请人提供）：本项目将为1997年全国青年纵向研究（NLSY97）的受访者添加有关高等教育的详细信息，这些信息是从成绩单和其他考试成绩的行政记录以及高等教育入学历史中挑选出来的。高等教育成绩单将根据研究人员、政策制定者和管理人员使用的成熟分类收集和编码。这些新收集的数据，加上大量总结和描述学生高等教育经历和结果的变量，将作为公开分发的NLS数据集的一部分提供。NLSY97是全国最具代表性的纵向数据集，用于研究从高中到工作和成年的过渡。在几个关键领域（就业、学校教育、婚姻和同居、政府项目参与、移民），NLSY97包括了所有受访者每月的状态变量。这项高等教育成绩单研究提供了宝贵的详细时间信息，包括学生在高等教育机构的入学模式、他们所修课程（包括课程内容）和他们在这些课程中的表现。这项研究产生的数据将提供有关家庭、教育、工作和健康在整个生命过程中复杂相互作用的重要信息。这些信息是了解产生基于教育的健康差异的途径的关键。这项大型而复杂的研究将涉及两个主要阶段和一个多学科研究小组。第一阶段涉及收集和编码来自约4,800名NLSY97受访者的约7,500份高等教育成绩单。第二阶段将编制变量和数据文件，供公众传播。这些构建的变量对于促进高等教育数据的广泛使用至关重要。除了提供公共访问数据外，调查人员还将在一些环境中举办讲习班，并提供详细的文件，向研究和应用环境中的多学科用户介绍数据，并鼓励使用这些数据。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project will add detailed information on postsecondary education for the National Longitudinal Study of Youth of 1997 (NLSY97) respondents, culled from transcripts and other administrative records of test scores and postsecondary enrollment histories. Postsecondary transcripts will be collected and coded according to a well-established taxonomy used by researchers, policy makers, and administrators alike. These newly collected data, plus a large number of variables that summarize and describe students' postsecondary experiences and outcomes will be made available as part of the publicly distributed NLS data set. The NLSY97 is the premier nationally representative longitudinal data set for studying the transition from high school to work and into adulthood. In several key domains (employment, schooling, marriage and cohabitation, government program participation, migration), the NLSY97 includes month-by-month status variables for all respondents. This postsecondary transcript study provides invaluable detailed chronological information about students' enrollment patterns across post-secondary institutions, the courses they took (including the content of the courses) and their performance in those courses. The data produced from this study will provide vital information about the complex interplay of family, education, work and health across the life course. This information is key to understanding the pathways through which education-based health disparities are produced. This large and complex study will involve two major phases and a multidisciplinary research team. The first phase involves the collection and coding of approximately 7,500 postsecondary transcripts from about 4,800 NLSY97 respondents. The second phase will produce constructed variables and data files for public dissemination. These constructed variables are essential to stimulate wide use of the postsecondary education data. In addition to producing public access data, investigators will conduct workshops in a number of settings and provide detailed documentation to introduce the data to multidisciplinary users in both research and applied settings, and encourage their use.