The design and content of the National Survey of Families and Households.

摘要: This paper is a procedural history of the National Survey Families and Households (NSFH). It attempts to 1) describe project 2) enumerate some major criteria that guided decisions relating design survey what it covered questions included 3) procedures were used including sample field data preparation. The NSFH includes interviews with probability 13017 respondents. main cross-section 9643 households plus double sampling blacks Puerto Ricans Mexican Americans single-parent families stepchildren cohabiting couples recently married persons. 1 adult per household was randomly selected as primary respondent. cross-sectional several retrospective sequences. A considerable amount life-history information collected respondents family living arrangements in childhood experience leaving parental home marital cohabitation well education employment fertility histories. permits detailed description past current other characteristics experiences analysis consequences earlier patterns on states parenting relationships kin contact economic psychological well-being.