Summary, Sample and Descriptive

 

 

Subtopics

[Status Variables] [Geography]

       

SIB DATA

 

SIB DATA

Summary

1957

1964

1975

1977

1992-93

1993-94

Respondent's Identification Number (not available on public release) IDSWL IDSWL IDSWL XIDSWL IDSWL XIDSWL
Respondent's Identification Number for user's tape. Used to merge data from different waves of public data. IDUSER IDUSER IDUSER IDUSER IDUSER IDUSER
IDUSER of this sibling respondent as a original sample member. (not available on public release)           SA026RE
NA007RE
Office ID # Assigned by the Wisconsin Survey Research Laboratory. (freqs reflect private data) (not available on public release)     IDOF01
XIDOF01
XIDOF77    
ID number of the person who interviewed     IDINT XIDINT RA019RE SA014RE
Iduser of respondent's spouse at the time of the 1975 interview (if spouse also in 1/3 sample). (not available on public release)     MR75IDUS      
Iduser of the respondent flagged in RRMR92F/XSMR93F. (not available on public release)         MR92IDUS XR93IDUS
Iduser of the second person referenced in RS92F. (not available on public release)         RSIDUS1  
Iduser of the third person referenced in RS92F. (not available on public release)         RSIDUS2  
Gender of respondent or other sample member.

SEXRSP

    XSEXRSP

RA001RE

SA001RE
NA001RER

Month of birth date (not available on public release)     CMBRDX XCMBRDX RA002REM SA002REM
Year of birth.     BRDXDY XBRDXDY RA002REY SA002REY
Age of respondent. (not available on public release) AGERSP          
Are respondent and sibling twins.     TWINR XSMTWIN    
Sample Code for 1977 siblings       XRSP77    
Sample Code for Sex Pairs for 1977 siblings       XSMGP    
1/6 Sample identification. IDSAMPQ          
Group resopndent was randomly assigned to     GROUP91   RA004RE SA004RE
NA002RE
Recoding Status of 1957 Questionnaires (1957Q) Flag to indicate whether a 1957 questionnaire was recoded. ISVERIF          
Data for variables described in the WLS data release called WLS23 were updated for this graduate from retrospective information obtained in the 1992-93 survey. UPD93          
Did R have any relationship with another R in the 1/3 sample at time of interview? (RS92F is any sibling and RRMR92F and XSMR93F are for any graduates)
(not available on public release)
    RRMR75F  

RRMR92F
RS92F

XSMR93F

Is this graduate a parent of a child with a disablity as determined by Selzer and Greenberg? (not available on public release)
        RA027RE SA027RE
Any comments or suggestions about the study in general?         MA002RER NB002RER
Status Variables Return to Top          

1957

1964

1975

1977

1992-93

1993-94

The master file for 1957-1977 contains detailed status variables for all interviews since it has records for all 10317 graduates. The following variables reside in the 1957-77 data file, but are about the year indicated by the column heading. These are the best measures.            
Outcome of telephone interview.     STAT75 XSTAT77 STAT92P XSTAT93P
Outcome of mail interview.   RSPW64
RS64FU
    STAT92M XSTAT93M
Is respondent still living?   LIV64     LIV92 XLIV
Year of death         DEATYR XDEATYR
Other response status variables            
Outcome of telephone interview. (less detailed than above)         RA006RE SA006RE
Outcome of mail questionnaire. (less detailed than above)         RA007RE SA007RE
Date of phone interview (day/month/year). (CMINT and XCMINT are century months) (the 'day' variables are not available on public release)    

DAYINT
MOINT
CMINT

XDAYINT
XMOINT
XCMINT

RA016RED
RA016REM
RA016REY

SA012RED
SA012REM
SA012REY

Date completed mail questionnaire. (day/month/year) (the 'day' variables are not available on public release)        

RA017RED
RA017REM
RA017REY

SA013RED
SA013REM
SA013REY

Time interview started.     TIMINT XTIMINT
   
Length of interview.     LNGINT XLNGINT    
Time it took to complete the mail questionnaire         MA001RER NB001RER
Combined Response Status for 1964 and 1975
    RSP75      
Combined Sample (Graduate and Sibling) Response Code
      XSMPL    
Responded to which 1993/94 survey.           SA005RE
Response Status in 1964 by Sub-Sample
  RS64        
Response Status to Oct. 1957 questionnaire IDSOC57Q          
Who responded to the questionnaire WHOCT57Q          
Was this respondent interviewed in 1977           NA003RE
Date completed mail questionnaire was
received from the sibling respondent.

          NA005RE
Did respondent complete both phone and mail interviews           NA004RE
Number of mail questionnaires sent to respondent.         RA018RE NA006RE
Geography
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1957

1964

1975

1977

1992-93

1993-94

Place of residence (not available on public release)   GEOG64 GEOG70
GEOG75
XGEOG77    
Minor civil division for residence (not available on public release)     MCD70
MCD75
XMCD77    
State of respondent's address. (not available on public release)         RA020RE SA015RE
5-digit FIPS code for county containing primary zip code. (not available on public release)         RA021RE SA021RE
Zip code of primary address. (not available on public release)         RA005RE SA016RE
1990 based LMA code for zip code of primary address. (not available on public release)         RA022RE SA022RE
1980 based LMA code for zip code of primary address. (not available on public release)         RA023RE SA023RE
1993 Metropolitan Statistical Area code for primary address. (not available on public release)         RA024RE SA024RE
1990 county population based on zip code of primary address. (not available on public release)         RA025RE SA025RE
Rural-Urban residence of Respondent RLUR57          
Residential area of Respondent RES57          
Size of Place of Residence in Hundreds     RSPL100
SPL100
XSPL100    
Current residence same as that of March 1970?     ADR70 XADR70    
Was respondent living in Wisconsin at time of interview?     IOST75 XIOST77    


Table last updated November 3, 2003