Fragile Families

DESCRIPTION: The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, also called "The Survey of New Parents," follows a birth cohort of (mostly) unwed parents and their children over a five-year period.  It addresses three areas of great interest to policy makers and community leaders-non-marital childbearing, welfare reform, and the role of fathers-and brings these three areas together in an innovative, integrated framework. The study follows approximately 5,000, made up of roughly 3,800 unwed couples and 1,200 married couples. The data are representative of non-marital births in each of the 20 cities, and they also will be representative of non-marital births in US cities with populations over 200,000. Follow-up interviews with both parents take place when the child is approximately one, three, and five years old. Data on child health and development will be collected from the parents during each of the follow-up interviews, and in-home assessments of child well-being will be carried out at the three and five year follow-ups. Child well-being measures overlap with those used in the evaluations of the Infant Health and Development Program, Early Head Start, the Teenage Parent Demonstration, and the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort 2000 (ECLS-B).

CODEBOOKS: Codebooks/Data Dictionaries are available in .txt format on the local area network (\Public\Data\Fragile Families), through the CFDR, or from the OPR website once you have registered.

DATA : Registered users can download Fragile Families baseline and one-year follow-up data for both mothers and fathers from the following site   http://opr.princeton.edu/archive/ff/ , or data can be obtained from the CFDR once you have registered with OPR.

LIST OF FREQUENCIES : Frequencies for all variables are available in the codebooks.

WEBLINKS: http://www.fragilefamilies.princeton.edu/documentation.asp Full questionnaires are available for download.

CONDITIONS FOR USE: You must register with the OPR data archive prior to analyzing the data. You can do so here http://opr.princeton.edu/archive/ff/