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 was a longitudinal survey, as was the supplement that the authors use in their research. “The sample for this study pools adolescents between the ages 14 and 16 who responded to the questionnaire for the 2000, 2002, or 2004 . . . [and] the analytic sample was further restricted to those adolescents who were reinterviewed” (p. 228). What feature of survey methodology is best highlighted in these comments about the scope of the NLSY79 supplement?
a. generalizability
b. split ballot
c. versatility
d. efficiency
e. none of these
