The Bureau of Labor Statistics primarily funds the core activities of the NLS of Mature Women. Additional funding has been provided by the Social Security Administration, as well as the Department of Labor Women's Bureau and Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration. The TRC, along with NLS staff and 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.
This group meets biannually to discuss TRC suggestions and long-range issues affecting the survey. The sample for the NLS of Mature Women, originating in 1967, is a nationally representative sample of 5,083 women who were ages 30 to 44 as of March 31, 1967. Blacks were sampled at three times their expected rate in the population. The sample design made it possible for any household that included a member of the sample for the NLS of Mature Women also to include sample members from the NLS of Young Women cohort, which began in 1968. Within each PSU, a probability sample of housing units was selected for screening.