Description: Comprised of a pair of surveys with partially overlapping samples administered in Peninsular Malaysia. Each survey collected detailed current and retrospective information on subjects including family structure, fertility, economic status, education/training, transfers, and migration.
Coverage: Malaysia.
Topics:
- Employment history
- Family structure and background
- Marital history
- Fertility/reproductive history
- Health
- Income
- Housing characteristics
- Household possessions
- Support transfers
- Social networks
- Migration history
- Mortality
Age Range of Sample: 18+
Sample Size:
1976/77
– 1,262 households
1988/89
– 926 households from MFLS-1
– Subset of adult children from original households
– 2,184 women age 18 – 49
– 1,357 persons age 50+
Years of data collection: 1976/77 and 1988/89
Data Availability: Publicly available; registration required to download data
Data & Documentation Links:
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACDA/