Project TALENT: Consequences of Adolescent Childbearing for the Young Parents' Future life,1960-1974

In 1976 the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for studies that would investigate the consequences of adolescent pregnancy and childbearing. The present file was extracted from the samples and variables in the Project TALENT data base in response to this RFP. Project TALENT began in 1960 with the administration of a two-day battery of tests and inventories to a nationally representative sample of 375,000 students in Grades 9-12. These students were resurveyed 1, 5, and 11 years after their expected high school graduation -- when they were approximately 19, 23, and 29 years old -- per the schedule given in Table 03-1.