Project TALENT is a longitudinal survey designed to investigate the personal, educational, and experiential factors that promote or inhibit the development of human talents. Extensive data were obtained in 1960 from a sample of over 400,000 students in grades 9-12 in the United States. These data included cognitive skills of the individuals, their interests, plans, family background, and activities while in high school, as well as general characteristics of the schools they attended. Follow-up surveys conducted 1 year, 5 years, and 11 years after high school graduation produced data regarding the individual's post-high school education and work experiences, family development, plans and aspirations, and life satisfaction (see TM 870 794). This "Project TALENT Public Use File, 1960-1976" is a machine-readable data file (MRDF) containing data for a self-weighted subsample of 4,000 high school students selected from the original 400,000 participants. From each of the high school classes of 1960 through 1963, 1,000 men and women were selected, all of whom had responded to the 11-year follow-up survey. This file then contains data from the original 1960 testing as well as from the 11-year follow-up survey. The 1960 student data include: scores on information tests, ability tests, aptitude tests, and achievement tests in language, mathematics, and visualization; dispositional traits; occupational and activity interests; family background, and personal matters related to health, current school and social activities, and life plans. The 11-year follow-up variables included: educational experience in terms of degrees, noncollege training, occupational training in high school, financial support for college study, colleges and dates attended, and perceived value of education; career in terms of work experience, occupation, income, job satisfaction, career plans, and reasons for stopping work; and personal variables such as marital status and history, childbearing history, expected family size, spouse's education and career, quality of life, geographical mobility, military experience, political behavior, leisure and civic activities, race, and discrimination experienced. The data are in logical record format with record lengths of 2,383 for each of the 4,000 cases. The file has approximately 1,175 variables. TYPE OF SURVEY: National Probability Survey; Follow-up Survey; Longitudinal Survey. POPULATION: High school students from the classes of 1960-1963 participating in the Project TALENT surveys. METHODOLOGY: A subsample of 4,000 Project TALENT participants were selected (1,000 men and women from each of the high school classes of 1960-1963); all of whom had responded to the 11-year follow-up mail survey. FREQUENCY OF SURVEY: Periodic. YEAR OF FIRST DATA: 1960. (CDM/WTB)