The Bureau of Labor Statistics primarily funds the core activities of the NLS of Young Women. Additional funding has been provided by 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 Young Women, originating in 1968, is a nationally representative sample of 5,159 women who were ages 14 to 24 as of December 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 Young Women also to include sample members from the NLS of Mature Women cohort, which began in 1967. Within each PSU, a probability sample of housing units was selected for screening.