NLSY data

We’re using some data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, a cohort of American young adults aged 14-22 at enrollment in 1979. They continue to be followed to this day, and there is a wealth of publicly available data online. I’ve downloaded the answers to a survey question about whether respondents wear glasses, a scale about their eyesight with glasses, their (NLSY-assigned 😒) race/ethnicity, their sex (presumably at birth, but unclear), their family’s income in 1979, and their age at the birth of their first child.

The complete-case dataset we will mostly use in class can be downloaded here: https://github.com/louisahsmith/data/raw/main/nlsy/nlsy.rds

If you are interested in downloading your own NLSY data (e.g., for the final project), you can do so here: https://www.nlsinfo.org/investigator/pages/login.jsp (you can click “begin searching as a guest” - you don’t need a login).