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National Youth Survey [United States]: Wave IV, 1979

Metadata Updated: November 14, 2025

Youth data for the fourth wave of the National Youth Survey are contained in this data collection. The first wave of this survey was conducted in 1976 (ICPSR 8375), the second wave in 1977 (ICPSR 8424), and the third wave in 1978 (ICPSR 8506). Data are available in this wave on the demographic and socioeconomic status of respondents, disruptive events in the home, youth aspirations and expectations, social isolation, normlessness, perceived disapproval by parents and peers, attitudes toward deviance, exposure and commitment to delinquent peers, sex roles, interpersonal violence, pressure for substance abuse by peers, self-reported delinquency, drug and alcohol use, and victimization.

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: us-pd

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Dates

Metadata Created Date August 18, 2021
Metadata Updated Date November 14, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from DOJ JSON

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date August 18, 2021
Metadata Updated Date November 14, 2025
Publisher Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Maintainer
Identifier 3934
Data First Published 1988-10-25T00:00:00
Language eng
Data Last Modified 2008-09-10T11:39:33
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 011:21
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Metadata Catalog ID https://www.justice.gov/data.json
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Collection Package Id c8996238-1989-4d23-b958-775698ba8f3b
Harvest Object Id 231de6fb-fae3-4090-95e7-f3e45866779e
Harvest Source Id 3290e90a-116f-42fc-86ac-e65521ef3b68
Harvest Source Title DOJ JSON
License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
Program Code 011:000
Publisher Hierarchy Office of Justice Programs > Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 924da21df9912cc3ba020cdb381a6107e8d81112f5bb8e0b98b896f1be10e27c
Source Schema Version 1.1

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