Respondents’ home residences have been geocoded at each interview wave and contextual data on the neighborhood, community, and state have been merged to all individual records. More than 8,500 data elements on the social and physical environment at multiple spatial levels are available across waves, including such information as race, ethnic, foreign-born, and religious denomination composition, poverty rates, crime statistics, sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevalence, divorce and child support laws, welfare policies, cigarette taxes, and the proximity and number of parks, sidewalks, recreation centers, fast food restaurants, alcohol outlets, and other physical and social characteristics of the environments in which young people live.
