NWFSRDC News and Highlights Corner: Future of Families Data Now Available!

Posted: 3/28/2025 ()

We are excited to announce that Future of Families and Child Well-being Study (FFCWS) data are now available at the NWFSRDC. FFCWS is the longest-running and only contemporary U.S. birth cohort study of young adults based on a national sample. FFCWS follows children from birth through young adulthood, enabling researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to understand the impacts of family structure, education, employment, income, health, housing, and resource sharing on human development. FFCWS data in the NWFSRDC will be linkable to other FSRDC data files and will contain the core files plus additional contextual files (such as geographic identifiers, school context files, and county- and tract-level information). More details about the FFCWS data available at the NWFSRDC can be found at researchdatagov.org. Contact us to learn more about the data access process!