Using the National Longitudinal Surveys to Examine Changes in Women's Role Behavior

Abstract

This paper explores the uses of a particular set of panel data, the National Longitudinal Surveys, to study women's issues. Women's labor force behaviors, role conceptions, and family statuses were measured at several time points. Various ways of examining the relationships among these variables are presented. The general utility of using panel data to study women's issues is also discussed.

Black-White Differences in Mother-to-Daughter Transmission of Sex-Role Attitudes

“…This mother-daughter pairing creates certain biases in our sample toward younger mothers, daughters from larger families, and first-born daughters than are reflective of the population, but the mother-daughter matched sample is remarkedly close to population estimates on a range of characteristics (Macke and Mott 1980; see also Wolf 1980 in truncation problems in the NLS data). The NLS data provide a unique opportunity to study intergenerational change in a national longitudinal study with a high retention rate of respondents (Macke 1982;Mott 1978).…”