The American Family Data Archive (AFDA)

See also the AFDA Comprehensive Archive

The purpose of AFDA is to facilitate access to the highest quality datasets on topics related to the family, family structure and change, family interaction, and family well being. The archive comprises machine-readable data and documentation from nationally recognized studies on important issues relating to American family life, demographics, and family patterns. Datasets in the archive, as with all of Sociometrics 'topically focused data archives, have been selected with the guidance of national panel of leading researchers in the field. The AFDA panel, chaired by Dr. Brent Miller, includes Drs. Richard Kulka, Theodora Ooms, Douglas Sprenkle, Elizabeth Thomson, and Arland Thornton. Data sets in the archive may be purchased individually or grouped in any number of data set combinations.

Sociometrics American Family Data Archive (AFDA) is available as a comprehensive archive. Publication as an archive enables a user to conduct variable searches across all datasets in the archive simultaneously. This capability provides the user with a means to use a single search to locate all the variables in all the datasets in the archive that match the user's search criteria. This can help the user to locate very efficiently the most appropriate dataset or sets from the archive for a particular research purpose. The entire archive may be particularly useful for academic departments, research centers, and agencies that have multiple analysis needs that can be met in multiple ways by the collection of datasets in the archive.

AFDA includes the following data sets:

• The Intergenerational Panel Study of Parents and Children (A Detroit Area Study), 1962-1993 (Thornton, Freedman, Axinn)
• The Fulton County Descriptive Study, A Subset of the JOBS Child Outcomes Study, 1992-1994 (The JOBS Descriptive Study)(Kristin A. Moore, Martha J. Zaslow, Mary Jo Coiro, & Suzanne Miller)
• The High School and Beyond Longitudinal Survey (National Center for Education Statistics)
• The National Survey of Family Growth, Cycle V, 1995 (National Center for Health Statistics)
• The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, Waves 1 & 2 (AddHealth) (J. Richard Udry)
• The National Survey of Families and Households, 1992 (J. Sweet et al.)
• The National Survey of Families and Households: 1988 (J. Sweet, L. Bumpass, & V. Call)
• The National Survey of Children: 1976-1987 (N. Zill, J. Peterson, K. Moore, & F. Furstenberg)
• The National Child Care Survey, 1990, Parent Study (S. Hofferth, A. Brayfield, et al)
• The National Child Care Survey, 1990, Low-Income Study (S. Hofferth, A. Brayfield, et al)
• A Profile of Child Care Settings, 1990, Center-Based Programs (E. Kisker & V. Piper)
• A Profile of Child Care Settings, 1990, Home-Based Programs (E. Kisker & V. Piper)
• National Commission on Children: 1990 Survey of Parents & Children (K. Moore)
• Marital Instability Over the Life Course: 1981-1988 (A. Booth, D. Johnson, L. White, & J. Edwards)
• Stanford Child Custody Study: Family, 1984-1990 (E. Maccoby, R. Mnookin, & C. Depner)
• Stanford Child Custody Study: Child, 1984-1990 (E. Maccoby, R. Mnookin, & C. Depner)
• National Family Violence Survey: 1975 (M. Straus & R. Gelles)
• National Family Violence Survey: 1985 (M. Straus & R. Gelles)
• National Health Interview Survey on Child Health: 1988 (National Center for Health Statistics)
• Treatment Process: A Problem at Three Levels: 1988 (G. Patterson & P. Chamberlain)

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Download the README file for the data sets.