Attrition and the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience: Avoidance, Control and Correction

'This report was prepared under a contract with the Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, under the authority of the Comprehensive Employment and Training AcL Researchers undertaking such projects under government sponsorship are encouraged to express their own judgments. Interpretadons or viewpoints stated in this report do not necessarily represent the ofiicial position or policy of the U.S. Department of Labor. these surveys is to study the labor force activity of different population groups. The original groups included men who were 45-59 years old in 1966, women who were 30-44 years old in 1967, men who were 14-24 years old in 1966, and women who were 14-24 years old in 1968. In 1979, a new survey, conducted by the National Opinion Research Center {editor's note:) (NORC) in Chicago, was added for young men and women who were 14-21 in that year. Each of the five surveys is designed to collect information on all phases of the respondent's labor force activity and on other characteristics such as educational attaiiunent, health, family composition, and financial status that are known to be related to such activity.