Subject: Information on surveys measuring wellbeing
From: Jeffrey Kling (kling@marlowe.Princeton.EDU)
Date: Tue Oct 24 2000 - 11:31:59 EDT
For your information, notes on selected surveys (description, data quality,
how to get data, etc.) have been put on the web at:
http://www.wws.princeton.edu/~kling/surveys
This information may be useful to students who come to you asking about data
sources.
This is intended to be a public good (funded by the Center for Health
and Wellbeing), so please pass on the link to anyone you think might be
interested.
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Surveys Measuring Well-Being
This site contains descriptions of the content and particularly the data
quality and availability of some existing surveys that measure aspects of
well-being. Surveys summarized are listed below:
National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health)
Early Childhood Education Survey (ECLS)
Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing (FF)
Growing up in Poverty (GP)
High School and Beyond (HS&B)
Living Standards Measurement Surveys (LSMS)
Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (L.A.FANS)
Monitoring the Future (MTF)
National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS:88)
New Hope Demonstration (NH)
National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)
National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79)
Children of the National Longitudinal Survey
of Youth 1979 (NLSY79-CHILDYA)
National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97)
National Survey of America's Families (NSAF)
Panel Study on Income Dynamics Child Development Supplement (PSID)
Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN)
Survey of Program Dynamics (SPD)
Welfare, Children, and Families (3CITY)
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Note: this material was developed by my research assistant Manisha Modi
and reflects my own research interests in surveys measuring aspects of
well-being in the U.S. I anticipate that the collection will grow over time.
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Jeffrey Kling
Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs
Department of Economics & Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
Firestone A-16-J phone: 609-258-6153
One Washington Road fax: 609-258-2907
Princeton University e-mail: kling@princeton.edu
Princeton, NJ 08544-2918 papers: www.wws.princeton.edu/~kling
