Currently, registered users can download Fragile Families baseline, one-year, three-year and five-year follow-up data for both mothers and fathers. Here are the dates of the most recent file releases and the expected timeline for future file releases:

  Most Recent Next Release/Revision
Baseline May 2008 none
One-Year Core May 2008 none
Three-Year Core May 2008 none
Three-Year In-Home May 2008 none
Three-Year Child Care   Winter 2009
Five-Year Core August 2008 none
Five-Year In-Home February 2009 none
Three and Five-Year Employment and Child Care Calendars May 2009 none
* Medical Records (from birth hospitalization) August 2008 none
* Contextual Data (first three waves) November 2006 none
 
* Part of a restricted contract data release.
Data can be downloaded from the OPR Data Archive.

See the "Introduction to the Fragile Families Public Use Data" for more detail.

Data are available for download from the Princeton University Office of Population Research data archive. Users must register before downloading data. Files are packaged in WinZip archives containing SAS, SPSS, and Stata data sets. Please visit our Frequently Asked Questions for help with downloading, unzipping, and using data sets.

In order to protect the confidentiality of survey respondents, geographic (i.e., city) identifiers are not released on the public use data files. Medical records data are also not included on the public data files. Researchers can apply for these data via restricted use contract.

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