Education and the Transition to Adulthood

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目将增加1997年（NLSY97）的受访者的国家青年纵向研究中学后教育的详细信息，从成绩单和其他行政记录的考试成绩和中学后入学的历史。中学后成绩单将收集和编码根据一个完善的分类研究人员，政策制定者和管理人员使用。这些新收集的数据，加上大量的变量，总结和描述学生的中学后的经验和成果将提供作为公开分发的NLS数据集的一部分。NLSY 97是研究从高中到工作和成年过渡的首要全国代表性纵向数据集。在几个关键领域（就业，教育，婚姻和同居，政府计划的参与，移民），NLSY 97包括所有受访者的每月状态变量。这项专上成绩单研究提供了有关学生在专上院校的入学模式、他们所修读的课程（包括课程内容）以及他们在这些课程中的表现的宝贵详细时间顺序信息。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。这一信息是了解教育导致的健康差距产生途径的关键。这项庞大而复杂的研究将涉及两个主要阶段和一个多学科研究团队。第一阶段涉及从大约4，800名NLSY 97受访者中收集和编码大约7，500份中学后成绩单。第二阶段将产生结构变量和数据文件，供公众传播。这些构建的变量是必不可少的，以刺激广泛使用的中学后教育数据。除了制作公共访问数据外，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，并鼓励他们使用。

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.