Marion County [Oregon] youth study, 1964-1979

This is an investigation of the young men in Marion County, Oregon. The subjects were interviewed in a twelve-wave panel study beginning in their sophomore year of high school and continuing to age 30. The original base population consisted of 1,227 individuals. The first wave, conducted in the high schools in 1964, consisted of a 200-item questionnaire. The second wave, the first in the longitudinal design, involved face-to-face interviews with a 225-item instrument. The ten subsequent waves of the study were conducted by mail, at nearly one year intervals. The interview schedules are concerned with the issues of coming of age such as family relations, school performance, educational plans, dating, drinking, drug use, military service, delinquency, offenses and dispositions (civilian and military), and Vietnam experiences.