Pathways to the Future: A Longitudinal Study of Young Americans. Preliminary Report: Youth and the Labor Market - 1979

摘要

This volume represents a first and preliminary report from a National Longitudinal Survey (NLS) of a representative sample of 12,693 youth age 14-21 who will be interviewed annually for at least five years. The new survey builds on the lessons from the previous Department of Labor-funded surveys of youth, refining and supplementing the questions and adjusting the sample in order to add to the knowledge development from the earlier surveys. Hispanic, black and poor youth are oversampled. In the case of Hispanics, this will provide the first extensive information ever available concerning their transition experience. Extra effort is devoted to determining employment and training program participation, as well as vocational training in school, so that the impacts of these activities can be better addressed. There is a special panel of military recruits so that they can be compared with other youth who do not enlist. A range of additional questions are introduced to tighten the net of information compared with previous surveys.