Family Structure

The links below provide users with information on a selection of national data sets used to capture family structure utilizing multiple measures such as, relationship history, family background, fertility, and child living arrangements.

Each spreadsheet contains detailed information on the following...

• Question wording
• Responses
• Respondent
• Variable name
• Codebook location
• Valid responses [cross sectionally and longitudinally] or unweighted frequencies
• Examples of journal articles that have used the specific data set

• Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE)

• Current Population Survey (CPS 2007, 2008, & 2009)

• Early Childhood Longitudinal Study: Birth Cohort (ECLS-B)

• Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS-K)

• The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study

• National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG 2002)

• National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health)

• National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79)

• National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97)

• Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP)

Suggested Citation:

National Center for Family & Marriage Research. Measures Snapshots. Pilot Data: Name of Data Set. Retrieved from http://www.bgsu.edu/ncfmr/resources/data/measures-snapshots/family-structure.html