National Survey of Parents and Youth Questionnaires for Waves 1 and 2

摘要

These questionnaires were developed for Wave 1 of the National Survey of Parents and Youth and modified slightly for Wave 2. The Wave 2 versions are shown with footnotes to indicate where the Wave 1 instrument differed. There are four questionnaires. The first is a household screener. It comes in two parts. Part I was administered with paper and pencil, mostly at peoples doorsteps. Its purpose was to establish the eligibility or ineligibility of a household. Part II of the screener was administered with a laptop computer. Its purpose was to select a sample of eligible youth and parents from each household. There are then three substantive questionnaires: one for children aged 9 to 11, one for adolescents and teens aged 12-18 (the Teen instrument), and one for parents. The child instrument is basically a shortened version of the teen instrument. It was made shorter because of the shorter attention spans of younger children and because of the difficulty of some of the concepts for them.