Marion County [Oregon] youth study, 1964-1979
By: principal investigator, Mark Temple
Series: ICPSR -- 8334; ICPSR (Series) -- 8334
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Subjects: Young men; Attitudes; Longitudinal studies; Socioeconomic status
Description: This is an investigation of the young men in Marion County, Oregon. The subjects were interviewed in a twelve-wave panel study beginning in their sophomore year of high school and continuing to age 30. The original base population consisted of 1,227 individuals. The first wave, conducted in the high schools in 1964, consisted of a 200-item questionnaire. The second wave, the first in the longitudinal design, involved face-to-face interviews with a 225-item instrument. The ten subsequent waves of the study were conducted by mail, at nearly one year intervals. The interview schedules are concerned with the issues of coming of age such as family relations, school performance, educational plans, dating, drinking, drug use, military service, delinquency, offenses and dispositions (civilian and military), and Vietnam experiences.
Notes: Holding archive: Criminal Justice Archive and Information Network.

ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Chronological coverage: 1964-1979.

Marion County, Oregon.

The file is organized so that each of the 1,227 respondents is represented by 36 separate records. This results in a total of 44,172 records, each with a logical record length of 162. There are over 1,200 variables.