Sponsored by the US National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, the NSLY refers to a series of longitudinal studies of various birth cohorts begun in the 1960s and 1970s. Of particular interest is the NLSY-79, which began in 1979 to study adolescents and young adults born between 1958 and 1965, and its related Child-Mother data set begun in 1986, which conducts biennial interviews and assessments of all children born to female NLSY-79 respondents. Children born after 1986 were added as new child respondents in subsequent waves, so that eventually the sample will include all the children born to this cohort.
See Early Childhood Longitudinal Studies (ECLS), Longitudinal studies, National Child Development Study (NCDS), National Educational Longitudinal Surveys (NELS), National Institute for Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care (NICHD-SECC), National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (AddHealth), National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY), New York Longitudinal Study (NYLS)