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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 1998. Longitudinal Surveys of Children. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/6254.
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Longitudinal Surveys of Children

Kirsten K. West Robert M. Hauser Terri M. Scanlan, Editors

Committee on National Statistics

Board on Children, Youth, and Families

Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

National Research Council | Institute of Medicine

NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Washington, D.C.
1998

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Committee On National Statistics 1997-1998

NORMAN M. BRADBURN (Chair),

National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago

JULIE DAVANZO, RAND,

Santa Monica, California

WILLIAM F. EDDY,

Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University

JOHN F. GEWEKE,

Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

ERIC A. HANUSHEK, W.

Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy and Department of Economics, University of Rochester

RODERICK J. A. LITTLE,

School of Public Health, University of Michigan

THOMAS A. LOUIS,

Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota

CHARLES F. MANSKI,

Department of Economics, Northwestern University

WILLIAM D. NORDHAUS,

Department of Economics, Yale University

JANET L. NORWOOD,

The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.

EDWARD B. PERRIN,

Department of Health Services, University of Washington

PAUL R. ROSENBAUM,

Department of Statistics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

KEITH F. RUST,

Westat, Inc., Rockville, Maryland

FRANCISCO J. SAMANIEGO,

Division of Statistics, University of California, Davis

MIRON L. STRAF, Director

ANDREW A. WHITE, Deputy Director

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Board On Children, Youth, And Families 1997-1998

JACK P. SHONKOFF (Chair),

Brandeis University

DAVID V. B. BRITT,

Children's Television Workshop, New York, New York

LARRY BUMPASS,

Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin

FERNANDO A. GUERRA,

San Antonio Metropolitan Health District, San Antonio, Texas

BERNARD GUYER,

Department of Maternal and Child Health, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene

ALETHA C. HUSTON,

Department of Human Ecology, University of Texas at Austin

RENÉE R. JENKINS,

Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Howard University

SARA McLANAHAN,

Office of Population Research, Princeton University

ROBERT MICHAEL,

Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago

PAUL NEWACHECK,

Institute of Health Policy Studies and Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco

MARTHA PHILLIPS,

The Concord Coalition, Washington, D.C.

JULIUS B. RICHMOND,

Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

TIMOTHY M. SANDOS,

TCI Education Division, Denver, Colorado

DEBORAH STIPEK,

Graduate School of Education, University of California, Los Angeles

DIANA TAYLOR,

Women's Health Program, Department of Family Health Care Nursing, University of California, San Francisco

GAIL WILENSKY,

Project Hope, Bethesda, Maryland

EVAN CHARNEY (Liaison),

Institute of Medicine

RUTH GROSS (Liaison),

Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine

ELEANOR MACCOBY (Liaison),

Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council

DEBORAH PHILLIPS, Director

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Workshop Participants

ROBERT M. HAUSER (Workshop Chair),

Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin, Madison

CHRISTINE BACHRACH,

Center for Population Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health

PAULA BAKER,

Center for Human Resource Research, Ohio State University

RICHARD BAVIER,

Office of Management and Budget

BENNETT BERTENTHAL,

National Science Foundation

STEPHEN BUKA,

Harvard University

LARRY BUMPASS,

University of Wisconsin, Madison

LESLIE CHRISTOVICH,

Food and Nutrition Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture

ROBERT DALRYMPLE,

Office of Analysis and Evaluation, Food and Nutrition Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture

JOHN ENDAHL,

Food and Nutrition Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture

JEFF EVANS,

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health

AMY FINKELSTEIN,

Council of Economic Advisers

SARAH FRIEDMAN,

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health

JOHN GOERING,

Office of Research, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

JEANNE GRIFFITH,

Division of Science Resources Studies, National Science Foundation

MARIA HANRATTY,

Council of Economic Advisers

SUSAN HAUAN,

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

DON HERNANDEZ,

Board on Children, Youth, and Families, National Research Council

SANDRA HOFFERTH,

Institute of Social Research, University of Michigan

DAVID HUIZINGA,

Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado

GUILLERMINA JASSO,

New York University

NANCY KIRKENDALL,

U.S. Office of Management and Budget

ROBERT KOMINSKI,

Population Division, U.S. Bureau of the Census

PAMELA LATTIMORE,

National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice

MARY CLARE LENNON,

National Center for Children in Poverty

ROSE LI,

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health

MICHAEL LOPEZ,

Administration on Children, Youth, and Families

JOHN LOVE,

Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

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JENNIFER MADANS,

Vital and Health Statistics Systems, National Center for Health Statistics

GILLES MONTIGNY,

Statistics Canada

KRISTIN MOORE,

Child Trends, Inc.

RANDALL OLSEN,

Center for Human Resource Research, Ohio State University

JEFFREY OWINGS,

School and Family Longitudinal Studies Program, National Center for Education Statistics

HELEN RAIKES,

Administration on Children, Youth, and Families

SARAH REBER,

Council of Economic Advisers

KERRY RICHTER,

Child Trends, Inc.

PATRICIA RUGGLES,

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

MARK SHRODER,

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

HOWARD SILVER,

Consortium of Social Science Associations

LOUISA TARULLO,

Administration on Children, Youth, and Families

KATHERINE TOUT,

Child Trends, Inc.

JAMES TRUDEAU,

National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice

J. RICHARD UDRY,

Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina

JOHN VEUM,

Bureau of Labor Statistics

CHRISTY VISHER,

National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice

DANIEL WEINBERG,

U.S. Bureau of the Census

JERRY WEST,

National Center for Educational Statistics, U.S. Department of Education

MARVIN WOLFGANG,

University of Pennsylvania

MARTY ZASLOW,

Child Trends, Inc.

National Research Council Staff

NANCY GEYELIN, Project Assistant,

Board on Children, Youth, and Families

JEFFREY KOSHEL, Study Director,

Committee on National Statistics

ANU PEMMARAZU, Research Assistant,

Committee on National Statistics

DEBORAH PHILLIPS, Director,

Board on Children, Youth, and Families

TERRI SCANLAN, Program Specialist,

Committee on National Statistics

MIRON STRAF, Director,

Committee on National Statistics

BARBARA BOYLE TORREY, Executive Director,

Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

KIRSTEN WEST, Research Associate,

Committee on National Statistics

ANDREW WHITE, Deputy Director,

Committee on National Statistics

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Acknowledgments

The Committee on National Statistics and the Board on Children, Youth, and Families would like to thank all who participated in the workshop on longitudinal research on children, sharing their expertise, experiences, and concerns through stimulating discussions and for their thoughts and comments that lent to the shaping of this report. We especially thank Robert Hauser of the University of Wisconsin for serving as chair.

We also gratefully acknowledge the contributions of those who worked to organize the workshop and prepare this report. Miron Straf, Deborah Phillips, and Andrew White led and oversaw the undertaking of the workshop, from its development to the preparation of this report. Kirsten West took the major responsibility for organizing the workshop, preparing an initial draft of the workshop summary and responding to reviewers' comments. Terri Scanlan assisted in organizing the workshop and preparing the report for publication. We are grateful to Anne Bridgman, who made valuable revisions on initial drafts; Barbara Bodling, who provided the editing; and to Eugenia Grohman, who oversaw the review process.

With sadness, we acknowledge the untimely death of our friend and colleague, Marvin E. Wolfgang. He was a distinguished criminologist and scholar of longitudinal surveys of delinquency. We are privileged to have had him join us for this workshop.

This report has been reviewed by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with procedures approved by the NRC's Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the authors and the NRC in

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making the published report as sound as possible and to ensure that the report meets institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the study charge. The content of the review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the deliberative process.

We wish to thank the following individuals for their participation in the review of this report: Larry Bumpass, Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin; Julie DaVanzo, RAND, Santa Monica, California; Greg Duncan, Center for Urban Affairs, Northwestern University; Sara McLanahan, Office of Population Research, Princeton University; William O'Hare, Anne E. Casey Foundation, Baltimore, Maryland; Paul R. Rosenbaum, Department of Statistics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; and Jay Teachman, Department of Human Development, Washington State University. Although the individuals listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, responsibility for the final content of this report rests solely with the authoring committees and the NRC.

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List of Surveys Represented

British National Child Development Study (NCDS) Representative: Paula Baker

Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) Representative: Gilles Montigny

Children and Young Adults of the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth Representative: Randall Olsen

Delinquency in a Birth Cohort in the People's Republic of China Representative: Marvin Wolfgang

Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth and Kindergarten Cohorts (ECLS) Representative: Jerry West

Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project Representative: John M. Love

National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS:1988) Representative: Jeffrey Owings

National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) Representative: J. Richard Udry

National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979 (NLSY79) Representative: Randall Olsen

National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 (NLSY97) Representative: John Veum

New Immigrant Survey Pilot Study Representative: Guillermina Jasso

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National Institute for Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care Representative: Sarah Friedman

Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) Representative: Sandra Hofferth

Program of Research on the Causes and Correlates of Delinquency: Denver Youth Survey, Pittsburgh Youth Study, Rochester Youth Development Survey Representative: David Huizinga

Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods Representative: Stephen Buka

Survey of Program Dynamics for Assessing Welfare Reform (SPD) Representative: Don Hernandez

Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) Representative: Robert M. Hauser

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The Committee and the Board on Children, Youth, and Families convened in September a workshop to discuss ways to foster greater collaboration and sharing of information among principal investigators of several longitudinal surveys of children. Among many topics discussed were issues of coverage and balance of content, sampling design and weighting, measurement and analysis, field operations, legitimation and retention of cases, data disclosure and dissemination, and resources available for longitudinal studies. The workshop was sponsored by the National Institute on Justice.

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