In Thorsen and Pearce-Morris’s (2016) study on the impact of adolescent mental health on marital outcomes, they use data from the Child and Young Adult Supplement to the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79). The NLSY79, a longitudinal survey, was “based on a nationally representative sample of 12,686 women and men” (p. 228). What feature of survey methodology is best highlighted in this description of NLSY79?
a. generalizability
b. versatility
c. split ballot
d. efficiency
e. none of these
