The SubjectTag
variable uniquely identify subjects. For Gen2
subjects, the SubjectTag is identical to their CID (ie, C00001.00 -the
SubjectID assigned in the NLSY79-Children files). However for Gen1
subjects, the SubjectTag is their CaseID (ie, R00001.00), with "00"
appended. This manipulation is necessary to identify subjects uniquely in
inter-generational datasets. A Gen1 subject with an ID of 43 has a
SubjectTag
of 4300. The SubjectTags of her four children remain
4301, 4302, 4303, and 4304.
For Gen2, an NLSY79 variable of MathStandardized
is C05801.00.
Afi
and Afm
, values were simplified
(to one value per subject) by Kelly Williams in Sept 2010.
The variables for height and weight were manipulated in R files available in a
repository available to the public.
Find the appropriate subfolder, and view the HTML report for more details.
Download CSV
If you're using the NlsyLinks package in R, the dataset is automatically available.
However to use the kinship information in a different environment, download the
csv,
which is readable by all statistical software.
links-metadata-2017-79.yml
documents the dataset version information.