In Thorsen and Pearce-Morris’s (2016) study on the impact of adolescent mental health on marital outcomes, they used available secondary data from the Child and Young Adult Supplement to the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NSLY79). The children of the women who were sampled in the 1979 survey had 3 years of data for the authors to analyze (2000, 2002, and 2004). What feature of survey methodology is best highlighted in Thorsen and Pearce-Morris’s use of the supplemental data to the NLSY79?
a. split ballot
b. generalizability
c. versatility
d. efficiency
e. none of these
