Experiences and plans of young adults, 1973-1978 [United States]
By: principal investigator, Stephen P. Dresch
Series: ICPSR -- 8074; ICPSR (Series) -- 8074
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 adults; Longitudinal studies; Vocational guidance
Description: The Experiences and Plans of Young Adults, 1973-1978, dataset is a longitudinal study of a national sample of young people. The respondents were originally observed as high school juniors in 1973 by the American College Testing Program. The first follow-up by the Institute for Demographic and Economic Studies (IDES) took place in 1976. The second IDES follow-up study was conducted in 1978-1979. The original study was concerned with the amount of information young people had about specific job characteristics and career planning activities. The two follow-up studies collected information on current living situation, work, education, military experience, activities since high school, and demographic information and future plans.
Notes: Holding archive: National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging.

ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Data collected: 1973, 1976, 1978-1979.

United States.

The orginal wave consisted of 9,296 respondents. The first follow-up has 5,293 respondents, and the second follow-up has 3,615 respondents. Nonrespondent records are padded with blanks. The file contains 9,296 records with a logical record length of 3,590 characters per record.

"Considerations and Procedures in National Norming: An Illustration Using the ACT Assessment of Career Development and ACT Career Planning Program, Grades 8-11," ACT Research Report No. 65 (1974).