PHDCN: Social Support from Family and Friends in Chicago, 2000-2002

Over 6,000 children, adolescents, and young adults from Chicago were followed in the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN) Longitudinal Cohort Study. The Provision of Social Relations instrument, administered during Wave 3 (2000-2002) to Cohorts 6 to 18, evaluates social support received from family and friends. This dataset was created by Felton J. Earls of Harvard University.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between social support and antisocial behavior based on longitudinal cohort data.
• Analyzing variations in family and friend support across different Chicago neighborhoods.
• Studying developmental trajectories of social relations from childhood to young adulthood.

Strengths

• Longitudinal data following over 6,000 subjects across multiple time points.
• Interdisciplinary study design examining family, school, and neighborhood influences.
• Data collected from randomly selected cohorts, which likely supports generalizability.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count for this specific instrument is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Harvard University

Collection Method

Longitudinal Cohort Study with coordinated longitudinal studies and administered instruments.

Time Range

2000-2002 (Wave 3)

Geography

Chicago neighborhoods