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DESCRIPTION: The National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) provide data on family experience in the United States.
This study permits a close examination of the resulting family compositions and household operations. Data were gathered on
the composition of families, family background, and on the relationship of household members to each other. The NSFH data
contains two waves: Wave I and Wave II. Wave I was conducted from March 1987 through May 1988, one adult, the primary respondent,
was chosen from each of the households in the sample. The NSFH Wave I sample was reinterviewed for the second wave of the
survey, which was conducted from 1992 to 1994.
Data were gathered on sex, age, marriage, separation, divorce histories, adoption, child custody arrangements, stepfamily
relation, the quality of respondent’s relationships with their parents, children, and in-laws, earnings from wages, self-employment
income, interest, dividends, investments, pensions, social security, public assistance, and child support/alimony. In addition
to the main interview conducted with the primary respondent, a shorter, self-administered questionnaire was given to the spouse
or cohabiting partner of the primary respondent in Wave 1. An interview with the current or original spouse, cohabiting partners,
surviving spouse or other relative and focal child was conducted in Wave II.
CODEBOOKS: Codebooks are available for check out in hardcover from the CFDR office located in 240 Williams Hall. Electronic
forms of the codebook are available and may be downloaded from the Wisconsin ftp location Wave I codebook(ftp://elaine.ssc.wisc.edu/pub/nsfh/c1all.001)and (ftp://elaine.ssc.wisc.edu/pub/nsfh/c2mainall.001) for Wave II.
DATA: Data are available for Waves I and II in raw form, and as SAS and SPSS data sets. The data are located on the CFDR server: (\Public\Data\NSFH\) Included are subfolders for raw data, input programs, SAS and SPSS datafiles. Data may also be obtained
by filling out a CFDR data request form or contacting the CFDR office at 372-7279.
LIST OF FREQUENCIES: Frequencies are available for all variables and waves in each codebook.
WEBLINKS: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/nsfh/home.htm
Full questionnaires, codebooks, data and skip maps are available for download. Also an FAQ page (http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/nsfh/faq.htm).
UPCOMING RELEASES: Wave III is scheduled for release Summer 2004. The Wave III sample includes only a subset of NSFH1: those in Wave I who had a focal child eligible for an NSFH3 interview.
Focal child eligible for wave 3 were those who had been eligible for wave 2. These young adults were ages 18-34 at wave 3,
10-24 at wave 2, and 5-18 at wave 1. Included also were NSFH1 main respondents who were ages 45 and older by January 1, 2001—in
mid and later life. Thus, the wave 3 sample does not include NSFH1 respondents who were under age 45 if they did not have
an eligible focal child. For information on the content of Wave III go to http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/nsfh/t3sum.htm
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