Population Representative and Other Datasets on Children and Families Supported by the NICHD

• In Event: Child development data for secondary analysis from the Departments of Education & Health and Human Services

Abstract

The third presentation provides information about the Child Development Supplement (CDS) to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) Child and Young Adult cohort, the Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study (FF), the Baby’s First Years Study, the Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD), and the Family Life Project (FLP) birth cohort study of children growing up in rural poverty, all funded by NICHD. The CDS is one research component of the PSID, a longitudinal study of a representative sample of individuals and the families in which they reside. Since 1968, the PSID has collected data on family composition changes, housing and food expenditures, marriage and fertility histories, employment, income, time spent in housework, health, consumption, wealth, and more. The NLSY79 is a multi-purpose panel survey that originally included a nationally representative sample of men and women who were 14 to 21 years of age on December 31, 1978. As of the 2014 interview round, the women had reached the ages of 50 to 57. The children of these female respondents are estimated to represent over 95 percent of all the children ever to be born to this cohort of women. The FF study follows a cohort of children born in large cities between 1998 and 2000 (roughly three-quarters of whom were born to unmarried parents). The initial FF study consists of interviews with mothers and fathers at birth and followed up at ages one, three, five, nine, and fifteen. Baby’s First Years is a longitudinal study of the connections between poverty reduction and brain development among very young children. Data are available from the baseline data collection and cover aspects of family life hypothesized to be affected by poverty, including parent stress, family expenditures, family routines, parents’ time use and parenting practices, and child care arrangements. Future waves examine children’s development, as well as their physical health, stress, and behavior. SECCYD is a longitudinal study that was initiated by NICHD to address questions about the relationships between child care experiences, child care characteristics, and children's developmental outcomes. Data was collected from birth (1991-1994) through grade 9 (2005-2007). The Family Life Project (FLP) is a birth cohort study of children in three rural counties of North Carolina and three rural counties of Pennsylvania that is designed to examine the early development of children who are at risk regarding later successful adjustment and for whom we have little information: children living in rural, largely poor communities. Data have been archived for the first phase of the study which covers birth through age 36 months.

Authors

• Regina Bures, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD/NIH)
  Presenting Author

• James A Griffin, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  Non-Presenting Author