The National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth - Overview and Changes After Three Cycles
Author(s) -
Sylvie Michaud
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
canadian studies in population
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.157
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1927-629X
pISSN - 0380-1489
DOI - 10.25336/p6qk58
Subject(s) - survey research , national longitudinal surveys , survey methodology , sample (material) , data collection , survey sampling , survey data collection , survey instrument , psychology , geography , medicine , environmental health , population , applied psychology , demographic economics , social science , sociology , statistics , chemistry , mathematics , pathology , chromatography , economics
The National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth is a long-term study tomonitor child development and well being of Canada’s children as they growfrom infancy to adulthood. To do so, a representative sample of Canadianchildren aged between 0-11 years old was selected and interviewed in 1994-1995. Interviews are conducted every two years and the current plans are tofollow that cohort of children until they reach the age of 25. The survey has now gone through three collection cycles and already a number of changes have been observed. The paper will give an overview of the objectives of the survey, the survey design, the collection methodology, the survey content and the products and research that has already been done on the survey. The last section will present the future direction of the survey.
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