SAS command files now contain the exact record length of each data file on the infile statement. This name will remain the same, even when updates are made as is done for the other waves of data. New variables about occupational aspirations and cognition have been added. The data for these three files must be downloaded with the wave 1 data file. It will run under either DOS or windows.
Additional appendices are now available in machine-readable form.
Old documentation is being scanned and added to this webpage as it becomes available. Notes have been added to the documentation describing updates to death variables. New links to WLS papers have been added. Links will be added as machine-readable versions of papers listed in the WLS Bibliography become available.