DOI: 10.3886/icpsr38451
title: Oregon Youth Study Wave 23, 2005-2007
title: Archival Version

description: The original Oregon Youth Study began 1983. The goal was to examine the etiology of antisocial behaviors in boys, with a view to designing preventive interventions within the context of the family and the school. This longitudinal study has expanded over the past few decades into an intergenerational study, retaining the original young men and including their partners and children. Wave 23 of the Oregon Youth Study targets males aged 31-32.
description: The goal of this study was to examine the etiology of antisocial behaviors in boys, with a view to designing preventive interventions within the context of the family and the school.
description: Boys and their families were recruited into the Oregon Youth Study (OYS) by inviting the entire fourth grade (ages 9-10 years) of boys from schools in neighborhoods with a higher-than-usual incidence of delinquency within the medium-sized Pacific Northwestern city to participate. The latter was assessed by analyzing the home addresses of youth committing delinquent acts compared with the school-boundary areas. Thus, the boys were at elevated risk for delinquency due to neighborhood characteristics (in a medium-sized city) but were not necessarily showing conduct problems at the time of recruitment. Juvenile court data regarding the frequency of delinquent episodes (by youth home address) reported by the police was used to calculate (for each of the 43 schools in the districts) the prevalence of delinquency in that neighborhood.
A cohort sequential design was employed for the OYS. Two successive birth cohorts of fourth-grade boys were sampled to permit the replication of results, although sample size is such that almost all studies have involved the two combined cohorts (which had highly similar characteristics).
description: The data includes variables on participants' mental health, how many children they have, self reported crimes, employment, sexual history, and drug and alcohol use.
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: Brief Symptom Inventory Public Data
DS2: Boy's Substance Use Public Data
DS3: CES-Depression Public Data
DS4: Interviewer Ratings Public Data
DS5: Target Interview Public Data
DS6: Target Interview Restricted Data
DS7: Perceived Stress Scale Public Data
DS8: Self-Esteem (Self-Perception) Public Data
DS9: Young Adult Adjustment Scale Confidant Public Data
DS10: Extended Family Health History Restricted Data
DS11: Self-Report Delinquency Restricted Data
DS12: Self-Report Employment Public Data
DS13: Family Tree Questionnaire Restricted Data
DS14: Getting Along with Partner Public Data
DS15: Grandparent Restricted Data
DS16: Confidant Information Form Public Data
DS17: Kinship Public Data
DS18: Michigan Alcohol Screening Test Restricted Data
DS19: Neighborhood Questionnaire Public Data
DS20: Parent Update Questionnaire Public Data
DS21: Adult Behavior Checklist Public Data
DS22: Adult Behavior Checklist Restricted Data
DS23: Sex Survey 1 Public Data
DS24: Sex Survey 1 Restricted Data
DS25: Sex Survey 2 Public Data
DS26: Sex Survey 3 Public Data
DS27: Sex Survey 4 Public Data
DS28: Sex Survey 5 Public Data
DS29: Sex Survey 6 Public Data
DS30: WAIS-R Vocabulary Public Data
DS31: WAIS-R Block Design Public Data
DS32: Young Adult Adjustment Scale Parent Public Data
DS33: Young Adult Self-Report Public Data
description: Males between the ages of 31-32 living in Oregon.
description: For additional information please refer to the study website.