· 1993 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey
The school-based 1993 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey (1993 National YRBS) was conducted by the Division of Adolescent and School Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The National YRBS is one component of the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS), an epidemiological surveillance system that was established by (CDC) to monitor the prevalence of major risk behaviors among American youth. The 1993 National YRBS focuses on priority health-risk behaviors established during youth that result in the most significant mortality, morbidity, disability, and social problems during both youth and adulthood. These include: behaviors that result in unintentional and intentional injuries; tobacco use; alcohol and other drug use; sexual behaviors that result in HIV infection, other sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs) and unintended pregnancies; dietary behaviors; and physical activity. This data set contains information on 91 variables from a nationwide sample of 16,296 students in grades 9-12, who were surveyed during February through May 1993.
This data is provided by the Sociometrics Corporation.
Documentation The data is available in the following formats:
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/shen/dapm1.dta.gz (in gzipped form) 423 Kb
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/shen/dapm1.tpt.gz (in gzipped form) 808 Kb
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/shen/dapm1.por.gz (in gzipped form) 595 Kb
· 1980-1985 University of Utah Adolescent Family Study
Records of clinic-intake
interviews conducted in the
This data is provided by the Sociometrics Corporation.
Documentation The data is available in the following formats:
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/shen/dapc3.dta.gz (in gzipped form) 22 Kb
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/shen/dapc3.tpt.gz (in gzipped form) 35 Kb
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/shen/dapc3.por.gz (in gzipped form) 28 Kb
· Contemporary American Family Poll: Sept. 18-25, 1981
The Contemporary American
Family Poll,
This data is provided by the Sociometrics Corporation.
Documentation The data is available in the following formats:
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/shen/dapb2.dta.gz (in gzipped form) 30 Kb
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/shen/dapb2.tpt.gz (in gzipped form) 56 Kb
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/shen/dapb2.por.gz (in gzipped form) 40 Kb
· Marital Instability Over the Life Course: 1981-2000
To examine the causes of
marital instability throughout the life course, six waves of data were
collected between 1980 and 2000 from married individuals who were between the
ages of 18 and 55 in 1980. Information collected in 1980 (Wave I) focused on
the effects of wives' participation in the labor force on marriage and marital
instability. Measures predicting marital instability and divorce and assessing
marital quality were developed. Variables include information on earnings,
commitment to work, hours worked, and occupational status. The focus of Wave
II, conducted in 1983, was to link changes in factors such as economic
resources, wife's employment, presence of children, marital satisfaction, life
goals, and health to actions intended to dissolve a marriage, such as divorce
and permanent separation. Information on adjustment to marital dissolution,
relationship with in-laws, size of home, parents' employment, use of free time, club membership, child-care arrangements,
and responsibility for chores was gathered. Wave
The data file contains 2, 033 cases and 5, 058 variables and is available in the following formats:
Stata/SE format (in gzipped form):
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/icpsr3812/3812.dta.gz 929 Kb
Stata/SE is available on the Unix systems econ.bc.edu, ecsa200.bc.edu, and goanna.bc.edu,
and may be acquired for desktop systems. You may use Stata/SE
or Stat/Transfer on one of the Unix systems to create a subset file that may be
used with standard (Intercooled) Stata,
and will require much less
SAS transport format (in gzipped form):
3812.tpt.gz 4 Mb
3812.por.gz 3 Mb
Codebook for Waves I, II, III: 1980, 1983, 1988
Codebook for Wave IV: 1992 and 1994
· National Survey of Families and Households, 1988
The National Survey of
Families and Households 1988 is a national survey designed to look at the
causes and consequences of changes in the American family and household
structure. It includes interviews with a probability sample of 13,017
respondents conducted between March of 1987 and May of 1988. The sample
includes a main cross-section sample of 9,643 households in the
These data were acquired from the American Family Data Archive (AFDA) of Sociometrics Corporation.
List of variables for FAM0105 - Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
Stata/SE format (in gzipped form):
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/fam0105.dta.gz 10 Mb
Stata/SE is available on the Unix systems econ.bc.edu, ecsa200.bc.edu, and goanna.bc.edu,
and may be acquired for desktop systems. You may use Stata/SE
or Stat/Transfer on one of the Unix systems to create a subset file that may be
used with standard (Intercooled) Stata,
and will require much less
fam0105.por.gz 22 Mb
· The National Survey of Families and Households, 1992
The National Survey of Families and Households 1988 (AFDA 01-05) was a national survey designed to look at the causes and consequences of changes in the American family and household structure. It included interviews with probability sample of 13,017 respondents conducted between March, 1987, and May, 1988. This dataset is the second wave of NSFH, a five-year follow-up to the original interviews. Wave 2 of NSFH includes (1) an interview of all surviving members of the original sample; (2) a similar interview with the current spouse or cohabiting partner; (3) an interview with the original spouse or partner of the primary respondent if the relationship has ended; (4) a telephone interview with "focal children "who were originally age 13-18; (5) a short telephone interview with "focal children "who were originally age 5-12; (6) short proxy interviews with a surviving spouse or other relative if the original respondent has died or is too ill to interview; and (7) a telephone interview with a randomly selected parent of the main respondent.
These data were acquired from the American Family Data Archive (AFDA) of Sociometrics Corporation.
List of variables for FAMA4A8 - Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
List of variables for FAMA9B4 - Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
List of variables for FAMB5B9 - Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
Stata/SE format (in gzipped form):
Stata/SE is available on the Unix systems econ.bc.edu, ecsa200.bc.edu, and goanna.bc.edu,
and may be acquired for desktop systems. You may use Stata/SE
or Stat/Transfer on one of the Unix systems to create a subset file that may be
used with standard (Intercooled) Stata,
and will require much less
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/fama4a8.dta.gz 6.93 Mb
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/fama9b4.dta.gz 3.74 Mb
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/famb5b9.dta.gz 614 Kb
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/famc1.dta.gz 637 Kb
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/famc2.dta.gz 64 Kb
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/famc3.dta.gz 105 Kb
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/famc4.dta.gz 217 Kb
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/famc5c6.dta.gz 672 Kb
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/famc7.dta.gz 18 Kb
fama4a8.por.gz 15 Mb
fama9b4.por.gz 9 Mb
famb5b9.por.gz 2 Mb
famc1.por.gz 950 Kb
famc2.por.gz 110 Kb
famc3.por.gz 143 Kb
famc4.por.gz 351 Kb
famc5c6.por.gz 2 Mb
famc7.por.gz 25 Kb
· National Survey of Children: 1976-1987
A three-wave longitudinal study was carried out by the Foundation for Child Development in 1976 (Wave 1) and by Child Trends, Inc. in 1981 and 1987 (Waves 2 and 3) in which the child was the focus of a personal interview with parents and children themselves. The purpose of Wave 1 was to assess the physical, social, and psychological well-being of different groups of American children; develop a profile of the way children live and the care they receive; permit analysis of the relationships between the condition of children's lives and measures of child development and well- being; and replicate items from previous national studies of child and parents to permit analysis of trends over time. Wave 2 focused on the effects of marital conflict and disruption on children. The third wave of data examined the social, psychological, and economic well-being of sample members as they became young adults. Further, for the first two waves, a teacher from the child's school answered questions on the child's academic performance and atmosphere. A total of 4,118 variables provide data on 1,423 children.
These data were acquired from the American Family Data Archive (AFDA) of Sociometrics Corporation.
List of variables for FAM0612 - Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
Stata/SE format (in gzipped form):
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/fam0612.dta.gz 2 Mb
Stata/SE is available on the Unix systems econ.bc.edu, ecsa200.bc.edu, and goanna.bc.edu,
and may be acquired for desktop systems. You may use Stata/SE
or Stat/Transfer on one of the Unix systems to create a subset file that may be
used with standard (Intercooled) Stata,
and will require much less
fam0612.por.gz 3 Mb
· National Child Care Survey 1990: Parent Study
The National Child Care Survey
is a nationally representative study of 4,392 households with one or more
children under age 13 conducted in late 1989 and early 1990. The study
consisted of a survey of parents in randomly selected households with children
under age 13 (the Parent Study), a survey of individuals who provide child care
in their own homes, a survey of child care providers used by the respondents in
the Parent Study, a low-income substudy, and a
military substudy. This data set includes only data
from the Parent Study. The low-income substudy has
been archived separately as AFDA Data Set Nos. 20-21. Data in this study can be
linked to two studies of child care providers: A Profile of Child Care
Settings: Home-Based Programs (AFDA Data Set Nos. 15-16) and A Profile of Child
Care Settings: Center-Based Programs (AFDA Data Set Nos. 17- 18). Each of these
three studies employ the same first stage primary sampling unit (
These data were acquired from the American Family Data Archive (AFDA) of Sociometrics Corporation.
List of variables for FAM1314 - Part 1 | Part 2
Stata format (in gzipped form):
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/fam1314.dta.gz 1.36 Mb
fam1314.por.gz 17 Mb
· A Profile of Child Care Settings: Home-Based Programs, 1990
The Profile of Child Care Settings Study was conducted for the U.S. Department of Education with the primary objective of determining the levels and characteristics of early education and care that are available in the United States. Telephone interviews were conducted with nationally representative samples of regulated home-based family day care providers and center-based early education and care programs between October, 1989 and February, 1990 using computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) methods. The final samples included 583 regulated home-based family day care providers and 2,089 center-based programs (archived as AFDA Data Set Nos. 17-18). This data set focuses on the survey of 583 home-based programs. The survey of home-based family care programs collected extensive data on a number of topics including care provided, children's activities, costs and income, help with child care, health and safety, and caregiver characteristics. There are 633 variables in all, seven of which provide demographic information about the counties where the home-based programs are located. The 583 cases on file represent an 87.1% completion rate among sampled programs eligible for the study.
These data were acquired from the American Family Data Archive (AFDA) of Sociometrics Corporation.
Stata format (in gzipped form):
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/fam1516.dta.gz 193 Kb
fam1516.por.gz 210 Kb
· A Profile of Child Care Settings: Center-Based Programs, 1990
The Profile of Child Care Settings Study was conducted for the U.S. Department of Education with the primary objective of determining the levels and characteristics of early education and care that are available in the United States. Telephone interviews were conducted with nationally representative samples of regulated home-based family day care providers and center-based early education and care programs between October, 1989 and February, 1990 using computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) methods. The final samples included 583 regulated home-based family day care providers (archived as AFDA Data Set Nos. 15-16), and 2,089 center-based programs. This data set focuses on the survey of 2,089 center-based programs. The survey of center-based early education and care programs collected extensive data on a number of topics including general characteristics, admission policies and vacancies, types of children served, subsidies, staff, curriculum and activities, meals, health and safety, and operating experiences. There are 887 variables in all, seven of which provide demographic information about the counties where the center-based programs are located. The 2,089 cases on file represent an 88.7% completion rate among sampled programs eligible for the study.
These data were acquired from the American Family Data Archive (AFDA) of Sociometrics Corporation.
fam1718.por.gz 720 Kb
· National Commission on Children: 1990 Survey of Parents and Children
The 1990 Survey of Parents and Children was sponsored by the National Commission on Children, and is a national telephone interview opinion survey conducted among 1,738 parents in the continental United States who live with their children. The survey collected nationally representative data on the current state of family life, the quality of the relationship between parents and their children and their interactions with the major institutions affecting the family, such as, schools, the workplace, neighborhoods, and religious and civic organizations. Subjects were identified from a national random sample of telephone numbers plus supplemental random samples of families with Black and Hispanic children. The response rate was 71% for parents, and approximately 81% for child interviews within these families.
These data were acquired from the American Family Data Archive (AFDA) of Sociometrics Corporation.
Stata format (in gzipped form):
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/fam19.dta.gz 245 Kb
fam19.por.gz 340 Kb
· The National Child Care Study 1990: Low-Income Substudy
The study is a nationally representative survey of 972 households with total annual incomes below $15,000 and one or more children under age 13. The survey was conducted in February-July of 1990 and focused on what kinds of child care arrangements respondents used, how those arrangements were chosen, and how they were paid for. The survey included a schedule of when the respondent and his or her spouse or partner was at work, and a schedule of when each child was at each child care arrangement to provide a detailed picture of the correspondence between child care arrangements and work. Extensive data on employment history were gathered, including the relationship between work and child care in the past. Basic demographic information such as income, education, and ethnic group is also included. There are 1,419 variables in all. The questionnaire was administered over the telephone with the interviewer using a CATI (Computer Aided Telephone Interview) system. The Low-Income Substudy was designed to supplement the number of low-income households included in a larger "main" child care study (archived separately as AFDA Data Set Nos. 13-14). A total of 430 parent interviews were completed with eligible low-income households as part of the low-income substudy, resulting in an interviewer completion rate among eligible households of 78%. Combining these 430 interviews with the 672 low-income interviews from the main study yields a total of 1,102 low-income parent interviews. Of these, only 974 actually had family incomes under $15,000 and are included in this substudy.
These data were acquired from the American Family Data Archive (AFDA) of Sociometrics Corporation.
List of variables for FAM2021 - Part 1 | Part 2
Stata format (in gzipped form):
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/fam2021.dta.gz 319 Kb
fam2021.por.gz 380 Kb
· Marital Instability Over the Life Course: 1981-1988
This study consists of data drawn from a three-wave panel study on marital instability. Five major dimensions of marital quality formed the foci of the study: divorce proneness (or marital instability), marital problems, marital happiness, marital interaction, and marital disagreements. Initially, the investigators devoted considerable attention to female labor force participation as it related to marital dissolution and divorce proneness. For the last two waves, the investigators drew heavily on a life course perspective to guide their investigation. Life course theories emphasize the extent to which social behaviors are a product of individuals' relative positions along a developmental continuum. A total of 2,033 cases and 1,593 variables were assessed across the three waves. Topics addressed in the study include: demographics (i.e., household characteristics, race, income, religion, education, etc.); marital/divorce history; pre-marital courtship history; marital behavior (e.g., division of labor, quarreling/violence); mental and physical health of husband and wife; employment (history, status, attitudes, and aspirations); attitudes about children; satisfaction about various aspects of life (e.g., marriage, home, community, etc.); problem areas in marriage; divorce/separation (including previous discussions of and current behavior, attitudes about divorce); and involvement with friends, relatives, voluntary associations, and the community.
These data were acquired from the American Family Data Archive (AFDA) of Sociometrics Corporation.
List of variables for FAM2224 - Part 1 | Part 2
Stata format (in gzipped form):
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/fam2224.dta.gz 1.44 Mb
fam2224.por.gz 2 Mb
· Stanford Child Custody Study: Family, 1984-1990
The Stanford Child Custody
Project embodies two studies. The first, Study I, focuses on the evolution of
child custody arrangements in divorcing families and is comprised of two data
sets ("Family" focused and "Child" focused). Study II is a
follow-up of adolescents from the Study I sample. Study II data are still being
analyzed by the original investigators as of this writing and are not yet
publicly available. The present report concerns the family focused data from
Study I. The Stanford Child Custody Study, 1984-1990 (Study I) is a three-wave,
longitudinal study of post-divorce child custody arrangements. The study is
based on a sample of 1,124 families who filed for
divorce in two
These data were acquired from the American Family Data Archive (AFDA) of Sociometrics Corporation.
List of variables for FAM2527 - Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
The data is available in the following formats:
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/fam2527.dta.gz 1.09 Mb
Stata/SE
is available on the Unix systems econ.bc.edu,
ecsa200.bc.edu, and goanna.bc.edu, and may be acquired for desktop systems. You
may use Stata/SE or Stat/Transfer on one of the Unix
systems to create a subset file that may be used with standard (Intercooled) Stata, and will
require much less
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/fam2527.tpt.gz (in gzipped form) 1.4 Mb
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/fam2527.por.gz (in gzipped form) 1.2 Mb
· Stanford Child Custody Study: Child, 1984-1990
The Stanford Child Custody
Project embodies two studies. The first, Study I, focuses on the evolution of
child custody arrangements in divorcing families and is comprised of two data
sets ("Family" focused and "Child" focused). Study II is a
follow-up of adolescents from the Study I sample. Study II data are still being
analyzed by the original investigators as of this writing and are not yet
publicly available. The present report concerns the family focused data from
Study I. The Stanford Child Custody Study, 1984-1990 (Study I) is a three-wave,
longitudinal study of post-divorce child custody arrangements. The study is
based on a sample of 1,124 families who filed for
divorce in two
These data were acquired from the American Family Data Archive (AFDA) of Sociometrics Corporation.
Stata format (in gzipped form):
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/fam2830.dta.gz 411 Kb
fam2830.por.gz 500 Kb
· 1975 National Family Violence Survey
The 1975 National Family Violence Survey explores conflict/resolution and violence in the family. The Survey was conducted by Family Research Laboratory at University of New Hampshire, and interviews were conducted among households in which at least one couple resided using a national probability sampling technique. The Survey was designed to show that physical violence between family members is more frequent than believed. There are a total of 2,143 cases and 807 variables included in the study. Topics in the study include: demographics, (household characteristics and composition, race, income, religion, education, etc.); marital/divorce history; marital behavior (conflict/violence and resolution); employment (history, status); and satisfaction/attitudes about various aspects of life. A similar study (AFDA Data Set No. 32) was conducted in 1985 to track changes in the occurrence of family violence between 1975 and 1985.
These data were acquired from the American Family Data Archive (AFDA) of Sociometrics Corporation.
Stata format (in gzipped form):
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/fam31.dta.gz 912 Kb
fam31.por.gz 910 Kb
· 1985 National Family Violence Survey
The 1985 National Family Survey was conducted by Family Research Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire and explores conflict/resolution and violence in the family. It is a national cross-sectional survey which can be compared to a similar study conducted by the investigators in 1975 (AFDA Data Set No. 31). The Survey was designed to show that physical violence between family members is more frequent than believed. One objective of the 1985 survey was to generate comparisons of the incidence of intra-family physical violence by race and ethnicity. Another objective was to generate state-by-state estimates of family violence. There are a total of 6,002 cases and 567 variables included in the study. Topics in the study include: demographics (household characteristics/composition, race, income, religion, education, etc.); marital/divorce history; marital behavior (conflict/violence and resolution); employment (history, status); and satisfaction/attitudes about various aspects of life.
These data were acquired from the American Family Data Archive (AFDA) of Sociometrics Corporation.
Stata format (in gzipped form):
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/fam32.dta.gz 1.24 Mb
fam32.por.gz 2 Mb
· National Health Interview Survey on Child Health, 1988
The 1988 National Health Interview Survey on Child Health (NHIS-CH) was conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), and cosponsored by the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development and the Health Resources and Services Administration. The U.S. Census Bureau directed field work for the survey. The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) is a continuous, cross- sectional survey representing the household population of the United States. Each year the NHIS collects basic health and demographic information by face-to-face interviews with a sample of about 122,000 family members in about 47,000 families. For the 1988 NHIS-CH, additional information was collected for one randomly selected child 0-17 years of age in each NHIS sample household. Topics covered in the 1988 NHIS-CH interview included child care, marital history of the child's parents, geographic mobility, circumstances of the pregnancy and birth, injuries, impairments, acute conditions, chronic conditions, passive smoking, sleep habits, school problems, developmental problems, and use of health care services. The resulting data set for this survey includes 1,347 variables and 17,110 cases.
These data were acquired from the American Family Data Archive (AFDA) of Sociometrics Corporation.
Stata format (in gzipped form):
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/fam3334.dta.gz 3.49 Mb
fam3334.por.gz 6 Mb
· Treatment Process: A Problem at Three Levels, 1988
This study investigates the process of therapeutic intervention in the treatment of oppositional children and their parents. As part of an ongoing program of empirical investigation of treatment process variables, Patterson and Chamberlain employ nonreactive observational measures of behavior to assess the effects of family management training on the behavior of extremely antisocial, preadolescent children. This data set is comprised of two separate raw data files generated from this research. Data Set No. 35 includes therapist-client verbal interaction codes for 73 families participating in the Parent Training treatment program conducted at the Oregon Social Learning Center (OSLC). Three phases of treatment were videotaped. Verbal interactions were coded with the Therapy Process Coding System developed at OSLC. Data Set No. 36 includes demographic data gathered during the treatment intake interview.
These data were acquired from the American Family Data Archive (AFDA) of Sociometrics Corporation.
Stata format (in gzipped form):
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/fam35.dta.gz 1.42 Mb
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/fam36.dta.gz 7.20 Kb
fam35.por.gz 3 Mb
fam36.por.gz 9 Kb
· The Intergenerational Panel Study of Parents and Children (A Detroit Area Study), 1962-1993
The Intergenerational Panel Study of Parents and Children is an eight-wave intergenerational study (1962-1993) of 1,113 white couples in the Detroit metropolitan area who gave birth in July, 1961. The study investigates childbearing, employment, divorce, changing family attitudes, and child outcomes in the domains of marriage, childbearing, school, work, living arrangements, family relationships and the transition to adulthood. A combined mother and son/daughter data file contains 3,079 variables and 1,113 cases; and a Life History Calendar data file contains 6,126 variables and 937 cases.
These data were acquired from the American Family Data Archive (AFDA) of Sociometrics Corporation.
List of variables for FAM3740 - Part 1 | Part 2
List of variables for FAM4147 - Part 1 | Part 2
The data is available in the following formats:
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/fam3740.dta.gz (in gzipped form) 1.14 Mb
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/fam4147.dta.gz (in gzipped form) 299 Kb
Stata/SE is available on the Unix systems econ.bc.edu, ecsa200.bc.edu, and goanna.bc.edu,
and may be acquired for desktop systems. You may use Stata/SE
or Stat/Transfer on one of the Unix systems to create a subset file that may be
used with standard (Intercooled) Stata,
and will require much less
· SAS transport:
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/fam3740.tpt.gz (in gzipped form) 1.9 Mb
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/fam4147.tpt.gz (in gzipped form) 462 Kb
·
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/fam3740.por.gz (in gzipped form) 1.5 Mb
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/fam4147.por.gz (in gzipped form) 483 Kb
The JOBS Child Outcomes Study is a longitudinal investigation of the life circumstances and development of young children (ages 3 to 5 year at baseline) in families receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children whose mothers were randomly assigned to one of three groups (Human Capital Development, Labor Force Attachment, Control) to test strategies to reduce welfare dependency and promote self-sufficiency. The data were collected as part of an evaluation of the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) Training Program. The evaluation was conducted by the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation; The Child Outcomes substudy of the parents and children was conducted by Child Trends, Inc. The Fulton County Descriptive Study, the subject of this data set, was a subset of the JOBS Child Outcomes Study sample and only took place in Fulton County, Georgia. Its purpose was to describe the participants in one site soon after random assignment. The study gathered information about child outcomes and intervening maternal, familial, and child processes related to cognitive development, safety and health, problem behavior and emotional well-being, and social development.
These data were acquired from the American Family Data Archive (AFDA) of Sociometrics Corporation.
The data is available in the following formats:
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/fam5152.dta.gz (in gzipped form) 495 Kb
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/fam5152.tpt.gz (in gzipped form) 804 Kb
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/fam5152.por.gz (in gzipped form) 646 Kb
· The National Survey of Family Growth, Cycle V, 1995
This is the fifth in a series of periodic surveys of women 15-44 years of age. In Cycle 5, event histories of education, living arrangements during childhood, and work have been added along with complete marital and cohabitation histories, and sexual partner histories for 5 years prior to the interview. The survey also included, for the first time, characteristics of male partners. Data are contained in two files: a respondent file with individual-level data; and an interval file that uses the pregnancy as the unit of analysis.
These data were acquired from the American Family Data Archive (AFDA) of Sociometrics Corporation.
List of variables for FAM9196 - Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
The data is available in the following formats:
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/fam9196.dta.gz (in gzipped form) 7.38 Mb
Stata/SE
is available on the Unix systems econ.bc.edu,
ecsa200.bc.edu, and goanna.bc.edu, and may be acquired for desktop systems. You
may use Stata/SE or Stat/Transfer on one of the Unix
systems to create a subset file that may be used with standard (Intercooled) Stata, and will require
much less
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/fam97.dta.gz (in gzipped form) 6.1 Mb
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/fam9196.tpt.gz (in gzipped form) 13.3 Mb
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/fam97.tpt.gz
(in gzipped form) 2.4 Mb
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/fam9196.por.gz (in gzipped form) 10.8 Mb
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/fam97.por.gz
(in gzipped form) 1.8 Mb
· The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, Waves I & II (ADD Health), 1994-1996
The National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health (Add Health) was mandated by Congress to collect data for the purpose of measuring the impact of social environment on adolescent health. It examines the general health and well-being of adolescents in the United States, including, with respect to these adolescents, (1) the behaviors that promote health and the behaviors that are detrimental to health; and (2) the influence on health of factors particular to the communities in which adolescents reside. Some of the dependent variables include diet and nutrition, eating disorders, depression, violent behavior, intentional injury, unintentional injury, suicide, exercise, health service use, and health insurance coverage.
These data were acquired from the American Family Data Archive (AFDA) of Sociometrics Corporation.
List of variables for FAM98A3- Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
In Home Questionnaire Code Book, Introductory Guides
In School Questionnaire Code Book
Parental Questionnaire Code Book
Parental Questionnaire Code Book - Guide to Recoded Variables
In Home Questionnaire Code Book:
Section 01 | Section 02 | Section 03 | Section 04 | Section 05
Section 06 | Section 07 | Section 08 | Section 09 | Section 10
Section 11 | Section 12 | Section 13 | Section 14 | Section 15
Section 16 | Section 17 | Section 18 | Section 19 | Section 20
Section 21 | Section 22 | Section 23 | Section 24 | Section 25
Section 26 | Section 27 | Section 28 | Section 29 | Section 30
Section 31 | Section 32A| Section 32B| Section 33 | Section 34
Section 35 | Section 36 | Section 37 | Section 38 | Section 39
Section 40 | Section 41 | Section A |
In Home Questionnaire Code Book II, Introductory Guides 1
In Home Questionnaire Code Book II, Introductory Guides 2
In Home Questionnaire Code Book II, Questions and Variable Names
In Home Questionnaire Code Book II:
Section A1 | Section A2 | Section 01 | Section 02 | Section 03
Section 04 | Section 05 | Section 06 | Section 07 | Section 08
Section 09 | Section 10 | Section 11 | Section 12 | Section 13
Section 14 | Section 15 | Section 16 | Section 17 | Section 18
Section 19 | Section 20 | Section 21 | Section 22 | Section 23
Section 24 | Section 25 | Section 26 | Section 27 | Section 28
Section 29 | Section 30 | Section 31A| Section 31B| Section 32
Section 33 | Section 34 | Section 35 | Section 36 | Section 37
Section 38 | Section 39 |
The data is available in the following formats:
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/fam98a3.dta.gz (in gzipped form) 8.89 Mb
Stata/SE
is available on the Unix systems econ.bc.edu,
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require much less
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http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/afda/fam98a3.por.gz (in gzipped form) 12 Mb
· Adolescent Women's Contraceptive Decision Making Project, Baltimore City, 1988
The Adolescent Women's Contraceptive Decision-Making Project, Baltimore City, 1988 is a six-month, longitudinal study that explores the use of contraceptives among adolescent women. The objective of the study was to determine whether consistency of contraceptive use is associated with the young woman's social network (family, friends, and sexual partners) and their attitudes towards pregnancy and contraception. Respondents were surveyed at three points in time: At baseline, at 3 months, and at 6 months. A total of 430 cases and 2,678 variables are included in this study. Other topics addressed in the study include: demographics (household characteristics/composition, race, education, employment, religion, etc.); contraceptive behavior; and attitudes toward pregnancy and contraception.
These data were acquired from
the AIDS/
List of variables - Part 1 | Part 2
The data is available in the following formats:
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/aids/std0608.dta.gz (in gzipped form) 227 Kb
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is available on the Unix systems econ.bc.edu,
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may use Stata/SE or Stat/Transfer on one of the Unix
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require much less
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http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/aids/std0608.por.gz(in gzipped form) 312 Kb
· National Survey of Adolescent Males-1988 and 1990-91
The National Survey of Adolescent Males (NSAM) 1988 and 1990-91 is a two-wave longitudinal study conducted between 1988 and 1991. The survey followed young men from adolescence, the period of initiation of sexual activity and other risk behaviors, into the beginning of young adulthood, a time when sexual activity is often at its highest. This data set includes data from both Wave 1 (1988) and Wave 2 (1990-91) of the survey. In 1988, a nationally representative, multi-stage probability sample of 1,880 never-married, non-institutionalized males ages 15 to 19 living in the contiguous United States (which oversampled for Blacks and Hispanics) was surveyed. The study's primary objective was to determine adolescent males' behaviors, education and knowledge concerning human sexuality, contraception, and sexually transmitted diseases. Wave 1 data were collected between April and December 1988. The primary mode of data collection was face-to-face interviews. The most sensitive topics (e.g., substance use, risky sexual behaviors) were assessed with confidential, written self-administered questionnaires. Extensive personal histories of sexual activity and contraception use were gathered, as well as respondents' personal perceptions of the various costs and benefits of contraceptive use and fathering children. Information on school attendance and recent employment history were also included. Wave 2, which is also referred to as the Follow-up Survey of Young Men (FSAM), was conducted between November 1990 and March 1991, when respondents were generally between the ages of 17 and 22. Of those respondents who participated in Wave 1, the follow-up rate was 89 percent (N=1,676). Data collection procedures were similar to those employed in Wave 1, with the use of face-to-face interviews and self-administered questionnaires. A total of 1,816 variables were assessed across 1,880 cases in Waves 1 and 2.
These data were acquired from
the AIDS/
List of variables - Part 1 | Part 2
The data is available in the following formats:
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/aids/std0910.dta.gz (in gzipped form) 871 Kb
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/aids/std0910.tpt.gz (in gzipped form) 1.6 Mb
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/aids/std0910.por.gz (in gzipped form) 1.2 Mb
The 1991 National Survey of
Men was conducted to examine issues related to sexual behavior and condom use
among
These data were acquired from
the AIDS/
List of variables - Part 1 | Part 2
The data is available in the following formats:
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/aids/std1416.dta.gz (in gzipped form) 978 Kb
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is available on the Unix systems econ.bc.edu,
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http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/aids/std1416.por.gz (in gzipped form) 2 Mb
· 1991 National Survey of Women
The 1991 National Survey of Women
(NSW) was conducted as a follow-up to the 1983 Survey of Unmarried Women (NSU),
which examined sexual, contraceptive, and fertility behaviors, and the factors
associated with these behaviors in a nationally representative probability
sample of 1,314 never- married women between the ages of 20 to 29. The NSW
sample consists of two subsamples of women. Women in
the first sub-sample (n=929) were first interviewed as part of the NSU in 1983
when they were 20-29 years old and had never been married. These women were
subsequently traced an reinterviewed
in 1991. The second subsample of women (n=740) was
obtained from a new area probability sample of 20-27 year old women, regardless
of marital status women in this latter sample were interviewed for the first time
in 1991. The combined sample consists of 1,669 women who were 20-37 years old
in 1991. In-person interviews were conducted using a standard questionnaire and
assessed infor-mation regarding respondents' personal
back-ground; pregnancy history; sexual initiation and current exposure; current
husband or partner; previous marital relationships; non-marital sex-ual partners; nonsexual romantic partners; health and
risk-taking behavior; attitudes, per- ceptions and
knowledge regarding health and contraception; and condom use. A self-admin-istered questionnaire, which assessed self-esteem, locus of
control, and attitudes toward marriage, was also completed by respondents. The
NSW includes a total of 1,669 cases and 2,236 variables. This data set contains
data from the 1991 NSW only. Data from the 1983 baseline survey, the National
Survey of Unmarried Women, are not included in this data set however,
these data are available from Sociometrics Data
Archive on Adolescent Pregnancy and Pregnancy Pre-vention
(DAAPPP Data Set No. D5-D7). Instructions on how to
merge the 1983 and 1991 data are provided in the User's Guide to AIDS/
These data were acquired from
the AIDS/
List of variables - Part 1 | Part 2
The data is available in the following formats:
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/aids/std1719.dta.gz (in gzipped form) 590 Kb
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is available on the Unix systems econ.bc.edu,
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may use Stata/SE or Stat/Transfer on one of the Unix
systems to create a subset file that may be used with standard (Intercooled) Stata, and will
require much less
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/aids/std1719.tpt.gz (in gzipped form) 1.1 Mb
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/aids/std1719.por.gz (in gzipped form) 804 Kb
· 1990 Los Angeles Women's Health Risk Study
Female prostitutes have been a
risk group of special epidemiologic concern since the early stages of the
acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic. High rates of sexual
activity with multiple partners expose both prostitutes and their clients to
substantial risk of infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other
sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Moreover, evidence that many female
prostitutes inject drugs or have sex with men who do has raised the concern
that these women could serve as a bridge for HIV transmission between injecting
drug users and non-drug-injecting heterosexuals. Finally, prostitutes' sexual
and drug-related risk behaviors not only place many of them at high risk of
becoming HIV-infected themselves but also passing HIV infection to children
they bear. These data were acquired from the AIDS/
The data is available in the following formats:
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/aids/std20.dta.gz (in gzipped form) 372 Kb
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/aids/std20.tpt.gz (in gzipped form) 466 Kb
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/aids/std20.por.gz (in gzipped form) 351 Kb
· Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study, Wave 1
The Welfare, Children and
Families Study is a longitudinal study of children and
their caregivers in low-income families that were living in low-income
neighborhoods in three cities in 1999. The purpose of the study is to
investigate the consequences of policy changes resulting from the Personal Responsibility
and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA). The survey was
designed to provide information on the health and cognitive, behavioral, and
emotional development of children and on their primary caregivers' labor force
behavior, welfare experiences, family lives, use of social service, health, and
well-being. The data come from completed interviews conducted between March and
December, 1999 with 2,402 children and their caregivers in
These data were acquired from
the Child Well-Being and Poverty Data Archive (
List of variables - Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
A User's Guide to the Machine-Readable Files and Documentation
Original Adult Public Release Codebook
Original Child Public Release Codebook
The data is available in the following formats:
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/cwp/cwp0104.dta.gz (in gzipped form) 3.42 Mb
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http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/cwp/cwp0104.tpt.gz (in gzipped form) 3.9 Mb
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/cwp/cwp0104.por.gz (in gzipped form) 3 Mb
· Boston City Hospital Maternal Health Habits Project, 1984-87
This study was designed to
investigate the effects on infants of various prenatal factors, including the
use of alcohol, cigarettes, and illicit drugs; violence; emotional well-being;
social support; and life experiences. As part of an ongoing investigation of
maternal health behaviors, psychosocial characteristics, and pregnancy
outcomes, subjects were continuously recruited from the Women's and Adolescent
Prenatal Clinics of Boston City Hospital from July 1984 through June 1987.
English- and Spanish-speaking women who were willing to give informed consent
and who gave birth by
These data were acquired from
the The Maternal Drug Abuse Data Archive (
List of variables - Part 1 | Part 2
The data is available in the following formats:
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/mda/mda1012.dta.gz (in gzipped form) 839 Kb
Stata/SE
is available on the Unix systems econ.bc.edu,
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http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/mda/mda1012.tpt.gz (in gzipped form) 1.4 Mb
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/mda/mda1012.por.gz (in gzipped form) 1.0 Mb
· California Perinatal Substance Exposure Study, 1992
This epidemiologic
cross-sectional survey was conducted in order to obtain a 1992 estimate of prevalence
of prenatal drug exposure by specific drug type for both the State of
These data were acquired from
the The Maternal Drug Abuse Data Archive (
Stata format (in gzipped form):
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/mda/mda13.dta.gz 309 Kb
mda13.por.gz 500 Kb
· National Survey of Sexuality Issues among Women with Physical Disabilities, 1994
The 1994 National Study on Sexuality Issues Among Women with Physical Disabilities focuses on a broad range of sexuality issues facing women with physical disabilities. The survey was administered nationally to women with and without physical disabilities and assessed demographics, culture, sexuality, relationships, developmental experiences, reproductive health conditions, and access to health care services. This study contributes significantly to the relatively small body of research done on the effects of physical disabilities on disabled women's courtship, sexual, and reproductive behavior. Data Set #12 and contains 732 variables for 900 cases.
These data were acquired from
the The Research Archive on Disability in the
The data is available in the following formats:
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/rad/rad12.dta.gz (in gzipped form) 285 Kb
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/rad/rad12.tpt.gz (in gzipped form) 374 Kb
http://capricorn.bc.edu/data1/vdc/private/rad/rad12.por.gz (in gzipped form) 339 Kb