Dear Colleagues,
As I'm sure most of you know, the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS)
program which includes the NLSY and the NLS97 is overseen by the Bureau of
Labor Statistics (BLS). Despite receiving almost level funding in the
current federal Fiscal Year (FY12) budget, the BLS has recently decided
that for the remainder of FY12, it is cutting NLS funding from $5.6 million
to less than $1 million essentially eliminating the program for this
year. This reduction has resulted in an immediate cessation of field
activities for 2012. There is also apparently a plan to move the NLS
to triennial
data collection and to drop the Hispanic over sample.
I thought that since many of you are users of the NLS data sets, you would
want to know about these developments. Please contact me if you would like
further information.
Sincerely,
Janet
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Janet Currie
Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Policy Affairs
Director, Center for Health and Wellbeing
316 Wallace Hall, Princeton University
Princeton NJ 08544
609 258 7393, http://www.princeton.edu/~jcurrie
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Received on Tue Feb 28 2012 - 14:52:56 EST
