The TRC, along with individuals from funding agencies, meets twice each year. The committee is multidisciplinary, reflecting the wide rage of social scientists who use the NLS data.
Members generally serve two three-year terms.
The NLSY79 Child sample consists of all children born to female NLSY79 respondents who live with their mothers at the time of interview. The NLSY79 is a nationally representative sample of men and women who were ages 14 to 21 on December 31, 1978. Since 1994, a special set of instruments has gathered information from young adult children who were age 15 or older by the end of the calendar year of the survey. It is estimated that the children in the sample typify approximately the first 80 percent of childbearing to a contemporary cohort of American women. Due to the depth and breadth of information available in the NLSY79 C-YA, it can be used for a wide range of research objectives.