The NHES:1999 Data File User's Manual, Volume III -Youth Interview Data File, provides documentation and guidance for users of the public release data file for the Youth Interview of the 1999 National Household Education Survey (NHES:1999). This volume contains a description of the data file and a discussion of data considerations and anomalies. Included as appendixes are the public file layout, SAS code for creating derived variables, crosswalks of items asked in the 1999 Youth Interview and the NHES:1996 Youth Civic Involvement Interview, the codebook for the Youth Interview public data file, and directions and code for linking data files. The youth service activity coding manual is also included. Volume III is meant to be read in conjunction with the NHES:1999 Data File User's Manual, Volume I. More information about the purpose of the study, the sample design, the other survey components, the data collection instruments, and data collection and data processing procedures is contained in the NHES:1999 Data File User's Manual, Volume I. Information about the Parent Interview public data file and the Adult Education Interview public data file can be found in Volumes II and IV of the manual, respectively.
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