National youth survey [United States]
Subtitle: wave III, 1978
By: principal investigator, Delbert Elliott
Series: ICPSR -- 8506; ICPSR (Series) -- 8506
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] :
Number of pages: 27600
Subjects: Youth; Attitudes; Parents; Socioeconomic status; Public opinion
Description: Parent and youth data for the third wave of the National Youth Survey are contained in this data collection which includes data for youth interviewed in 1979 about events and behavior of the preceding year, 1978. The first wave was conducted in 1976 (ICPSR 8375) and the second wave was conducted in 1977 (ICPSR 8424). Data were collected on demographic and socioeconomic status of respondents, disruptive events in the home, neighborhood problems, parental aspirations for youth, labelling, integration of family and peer contexts, attitudes toward deviance in adults and juveniles, parental discipline, and community involvement.
Notes: Survey data.

Holding archive: Criminal Justice Archive and Information Network.

ICPSR data class: Class III.

Chronological coverage: 1978; Data of collection: 1979.

Personal interviews.

United States.

National Institute for Mental Health, and United States Department of Justice, MH27552, and 78-JN-AX-0003.

Logical record length and Card Image formats.

Due to the dual funding arrangement, two different schedules are used with the two subsamples. These schedules are similar except for the sections on drug use, and data from both these schedules have been integrated into a single coding frame. Question numbers with an asterisk(*) were used only in the NIMH interviews and question numbers with a numeric sign(#) were used only in the Department of Justice interview schedule.

Part number: 1 ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 1,725 ; variable count: 801 ; LRECL: 1,074 ; records per case: 16.

Universe: Youth in the United States.

Elliott, Delbert S., David Huizinga, and Suzanne S. Ageton. Explaining delinquency and drug use. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1985.

Elliott, Delbert S., et al. The prevalence and incidence of delinquent behavior. Boulder: Behavioral Research Institute, 1983.

Elliott, Delbert S., and Suzanne S. Ageton. "Reconciling Race and Class Differences in Self-reported and Official Estimates of Delinquency." American sociological review 45 (February 1980) 95-110.