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Article: Antecedents and predecessors of NLSY79: paving the course: a historical view of the NLSY79 development stages highlights lessons learned during an era filled with new concepts and innovations in sociology, economics, and computer science.(Antecedents of NLSY79)(National Longitudinal Survey of Youth)
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- Monthly Labor Review
- Article date:
- February 1, 2005
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In 1965, at the prompting of the Assistant Secretary of Labor, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, individuals from the Department of Labor (DOE) and Ohio State University designed the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience. At the time, the participants did not realize that they were creating one of the premier, large scale national longitudinal surveys in the United States. Initially funded for 5 years by the Department of Labor, the "Parnes" data, as the Original Cohorts were called, continued for 37 years, with the last scheduled fielding of the women samples in 2003. (1) The success of the Original Cohorts led to the creation of the National Longitudinal Survey ...