CHANGE
NOTICE #22 - 12/00CHANGE
NOTICE #22 - 12/00A new edition (DPLS edition 10) of the first wave WLS data has been
released.
A new edition (DPLS edition 9) of the second wave WLS graduate data has
been released.
A new edition (DPLS edition 5) of the third wave WLS sibling data has
been released.
If you received any WLS data before May 1, 2003, please read this notice.
The TENTH edition of the 1957-77 WLS graduates and siblings differs from previous releases in the following ways:
The NINTH edition of the 1992-93 WLS graduates differs from previous releases in the following ways:
The FIFTH edition of the 1993-94 WLS siblings differs from previous releases in the following ways:
OLD NEW
DATE IDUSER VAR VALUE VALUE REASON FOR CHANGE
10/01 254034 XLIV 2 1 During ndi checking, we
XDEATYR 9999 9998 discovered that the sib
had mistakenly been coded
as deceased
OLD NEW
DATE IDUSER VAR VALUE VALUE REASON FOR CHANGE
10/01 137016 RS64FU 9 6 See entry of 12/93 by jp
RS64 9 7 These missing values require
a code other than 9 which
was assigned in the 12/93
correction
OLD NEW
DATE IDUSER VAR VALUE VALUE REASON FOR CHANGE
9/19/02 62055 LIV92 2 1 During widow checking, we
DEATYR 1987 9998 discovered that the grad/sib
had mistakenly been coded
188007 XLIV 2 1 as deceased
XDEATYR 1979 9998
267004 XLIV 2 1
XDEATYR 1989 9998
IDUSER VAR Old New Reason
9/26/02 10004 LIV92 2 1 Coded deceased based on early SSDI
DEATYR 9998 search, Not 100% certain good
357008 LIV92 2 1 match. Name is same, but dates of
DEATYR 9998 birth differ, did not die inWi,
soc not issued in Wi.
1/09/03 310004 & 184022, changed liv92 to 2 (both deceased)
deatyr =1999 & 2002 respectively
10/25/01 wls1401.asc Variables XGEOGHS - XRESHS confusing in documentation
not yet coded. The blank are 9 codes are listed as well as the
codes which were to be assigned and none of these codes had
freqs attached. Attached freqs to the current codes; entered
note prior to the "to be assigned " codes.
11/02/01 wls2091.asc Variable ALCM36, documentation only - changed
word Stopped to STarted - this error found during lalel
creation - Question number corresponds to date started living
with first spouse/ not stopped. Changed both wls2091.asc
and wls23u_des.
01/14/02 wls23u_6.lis, wls23.prg The variable XWWWRAL in column 3458
was spelled XWWRAL in both wls23_6.lis & wls23.prg. Both were
corrected.
03/29/02 Moved day of birth of grad and sib to restrict subdirectory.
Removed day of birth from private wave 1 data. CMBRDX
(century month of birth) now only available to private
users. Added BRDXDY - year of birth - available to both
public and private users.
Blanked out cause of death, month of death and death state
for both grad and sib. (first saved these in restrict
subdirectory). XDEATC XDEATMN XDEATST DEATC92 DEATMN
DEATST
Updated whether grad or sib alive and year of death,
LIV92 XLIV DEATYR XDEATYR, from ndi searches.
Following are from entering sib names from 1975 questionnaire into sibnm.dbf;
and also checking sibslv vs. number of sib names for discrepancies.
1/07/03 303004 Inserted sib 5 - female, grade 12, age 20
174016 Beginning at sib 5, educ and age off, sib 8 not entered
previously. Should be: Sib# Sib age Sib educ Sib gender
5 45 11 2
6 43 12 2
7 41 12 2
8 40 12 1
316013 Add 9th sib, age 27, female, educ = 12
81007 Add 4th sib, age 32, female
137025 Insert 3rd sib, female, age 30 16 years educ
356031 Add 2nd sib, female, age 22
02/19/03
IDUSER VAR OLD NEW REASON
282006 CFOSX1 9 1 See ** below.
CFOED1 99 8
CFOSX2 9 2
CFOED2 99 8
CFOSX3 9 1
CFOED3 99 8
CFOSX4 9 1
CFOED4 99 8
192020 CFOSX1 9 1
CFOED1 99 16
CFOSX2 9 1
CFOED2 99 12
CFOSX3 9 2
CFOED3 99 10
CFOSX4 9 1
CFOED4 99 12
CFOSX5 9 2
CFOED5 99 12
CFOSX6 9 1
CFOAG6 9 35
CFOED6 99 12
CFOSX7 9 2
CFOED7 99 12
419001 CFOSX3 9 2
CFOED3 99 12
** From an analysis of SIBSIS, SISOL, SIBBRO, BROOL, SIBSTT and SIBSLV it
was possible to identify where in the table R belonged for 403252
(BORSIB=6).
For 251014 and 454048, only an approximation could be done. However, some
sibs could clearly be placed within the table, so their values were added
from the 1975 questionnaire:
[a] For 251014, BORSIB is either 5,6 or 7. This implies that the first
four sibs can have their data correctly entered.
[b] For 454048, BORSIB is either 1 or 2. This implies that the last sib
can have her data entered.
Discrepancies between selected sibling name and name in sibnm.dbf
(database of sibling names from 1975 interview) pointed to by
SSBPOS (sel sib position in sib table) revealed these errors.
Old records were checked to determine the origin of the discrepancy.
In some cases, the interviewer wrote down the number of the sib
indicated on the top line of the random number selection, rather
than the number on the bottom line. (The top line referred to the
number of siblings in the household; and the bottom line indicated
the position of the randomly selected sibling.) This incorrect
sib was asked about and traced from that time forward. SSBPOS continued
to point to the sib who should have been randomly selected. To correct
this situation, SSBPOS will be changed to the sibling who was actually
asked about in '75 and subsequently followed. (This affects idswls
525025, 765027 and 769019 280034).
In other cases, the correct randomly chosen sibling was asked about
in 1975 and then a different sibling was traced in 1977 and 1992. If we
have completed interviews for 1977 or 1994 from the sibling, then
the 1975 data is set to ref/na and SSBPOS is changed to point to
the sibling who was followed in 1977 and/or 1994. (This affects
116200 and 280034 513002 360217 605058 524086). If the sel sib was
not interviewed in
1977 or 1994, RK066SSE will be coded "3" to indicate that a different
sel sib was asked about in error in 1992. (This affects
256014, 349065, 740162 and 601084 629189)
Note that we first determined correct sel sib position in sib table
by comparing 75 questionnaire and sibnm.dbf. Then modified SSBPOS
to take into account R's postion in sib table.
OLD NEW
DATE IDUSER VAR VALUE VALUE REASON FOR CHANGE
2/19/03 262001 SSBPOS 1 2 See proceeding 3 paragraphs
IVSSBR 15 12
IVSSBO 66 3
IVSSBY 3 12
SSBAGE 51 48
281066 SSBPOS 1 3
IVSSBR 2 3
IVSSBO 66 3
IVSSBY 2 66
SSBAGE 37 32
127009 SSBPOS 1 8
IVSSBR 10 4
IVSSBO 66 3
IVSSBY 2 3
SSBAGE 46 32
159123 TWINR 4 5
SSBPOS 2 3
IVSSBR 55 7
IVSSBO 55 7
IVSSBY 7 66
SSBAGE 36 29
SSBED 12 16
SIBHS 784 999
INSIB 937 999
OCSIB 964 999
CWSIB 2 9
INMSIB 11 99
OCMSIB 13 99
OCSSIBU 400 999
OCPSIBU 477 999
288017 SSBPOS 2 2
IVSSBR 6 10
IVSSBO 6 4
IVSSBY 0 66
SSBAGE 29 25
SSBED 14 15
SIBHS 0 999
INSIB 707 999
OCSIB 301 999
CWSIB 2 9
INMSIB 7 99
OCMSIB 7 99
OCSSIBU 520 999
OCPSIBU 495 999
243033 SSBPOS 1 3
IVSSBR 23 12
IVSSBO 66 9
IVSSBY 2 12
SSBAGE 58 47
SIBHS 360 999
INSIB 669 999
OCSIB 230 999
CWSIB 4 9
INMSIB 6 99
OCMSIB 4 99
OCSSIBU 376 999
OCPSIBU 387 999
210020 SSBPOS 2 7
IVSSBR 4 6
IVSSBO 2 1
IVSSBY 2 66
SSBSEX 2 2
SSBAGE 39 29
SSBED 12 12
SIBHS 314 999
INSIB 991 999
OCSIB 998 999
CWSIB 8 9
INMSIB 88 99
OCMSIB 88 99
OCSSIBU 998 999
OCPSIBU 998 999
329018 SSBPOS 4 3
IVSSBR 6 3
IVSSBO 3 3
IVSSBY 3 10
SSBAGE 30 33
SIBHS 605 999
INSIB 648 999
OCSIB 245 999
CWSIB 1 9
INMSIB 6 99
OCMSIB 3 99
OCSSIBU 310 999
OCPSIBU 371 999
309034 SSBPOS 3 1
IVSSBR 6 6
IVSSBO 2 66
IVSSBY 66 6
SSBAGE 34 42
SIBHS 0 999
INSIB 67 999
OCSIB 534 999
CWSIB 4 9
INMSIB 3 99
OCMSIB 9 99
OCSSIBU 151 999
OCPSIBU 315 999
3/21/02
Code 998 in variable RU029RE (binge drinking) has been changed to include the following respondents: 1. inapropriate 2. ru001re=0 (not in the 79% sample) 3. ru025re=2 (never drink) 4. ru026re=0 or ru026re=1 (did not drink or only drink one day in the last month) Previously the codebook on web was printed as "inappropriate, ru001re=0 or ru025re=2 or ru026re=1".
3/27/02 oinc rp120hed is a sum of rp113re rp114sp and rp119hh. Both
rp113re and rp114sp were corrected on 2/4/02. But rp120hed
was not corrected then. upd032702.sas corrected rp120hed in
the sas save file. wrt023702.sas rewrote the ascii data
file into the /tmp subdirectory. rp120hed in the spss and
stata save files were also corrected.
Also oinc.asc was updated so that all totals have a warning clearly
indicating that a zero sum may be due to missing data.
3/22/02 oinc.asc Added warning not to rp044hef to make it clear that
missing values are treated as 0 when summing.
04/02/02 asst.asc,.txt Added warning to variable RR043REC to make
it clear that 0 total assets may be due to missing data.
9/27/02 pers, psyb Changed .asc doc and spss save files to indicate that 0 total
scores are missing data.
3/28/02 beg write variables for date of phone interview RA016RE as 3
separate variables.Use of variable in format mmddyy is awkward.
* month RA016REM, day RA016RED, year RA016REY;
And for date mail interview returned * month RA017REM, day RA017RED
year RA017REY.
8/29/02 cor578 - referenced in intr Appendix L was updated
It was reworded so it was clear that the maximum is
16 transfers to children - not max of 16 children.
Also added info about transfers that reached limit due to
finite number of transfers per reason.
added note and modified description of rq026kd to make
clear that this is number of transfers/ not number of children.
162-163 RQ026KD Number of transfers to children who received
financial help from respondent. (660,
661a,661b,664,665a,665b,668,669a,669b,
672,673a,673b,676,677a,677b,677d,680,
682,681a,681b,681c,688,689a,689c,689d)
00 1193 1520
01 580 651
02 745 772
03 555 639
04 347 347
05 171 208
06 122 134
07 61 56
08 24 38
09 20 20
10 7 10
11 2 4
12 6 2
13 2 3
14 1 0
15 1 2
16 0 1
97 DON'T KNOW 3 1
99 REFUSED TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT GIVING 141 104
TO CHILDREN, NOT ASCERTAINED
Note: For each child to whom money was transferred, we know the birth order
of the child (RQ027nn), whether or not the child is the selected child
(RQ028nn), the sex of the child (RQ029nn), the amount of money
transferred to the child (RQ030nn), why the child received money
(RQ031nn) and the most recent year child received money (RQ032nn).
There are 16 of each of these variables. RQ026KD indicates how many
have valid entries;nn is the table number. Table entries are in
descending order by amount child received. The same child may be listed for
different reasons in the table.
Note: The survey instrument allowed for transfers to children for each of
these reasons: down payment on a home (3), enter or continue
business or farm (3), increase wealth or decrease debt (3), medical
expenses (4), housing or other living expenses (4), educational
expenses (3), and other (4). The number in parenthesis indicates
maximum number of transfers allowed for that reason. The total number
of transfers in the actual data was 16.
Sep-Oct 2002
Many variables that were previously available to the public are
now unavailable. Cor589.asc has complete details - noted by
** added 09/02 **
These items are now restricted from the public:
State in any form includes residence, job.
However, for 1992 and 1994 state of residence at time of
interview will retain distinction between Wi vs nonWi
for the public.
Month of birth of any person.
Day of 75, 77, 92,94 interview.
3/28/02 ALSO...changes century month of birth (RA002RE) so that it is month
(RA002REM) and year (RA002REY). Month will no longer be available
to the public and day (RA003RE) of birth will no longer be available
to private users. Moved day to restrict subdirectory.
7/05/01 MY018RER Changed description in the list
of variables to make it clear that
MY018RER is not included in the
sum of MY013REC.
10/02 mpsyb MN046REC Items 19m 19t 19hh and 19oo should have
been reversed prior to summing to obtain MN046RER. However the
.sor fileshowed that 19pp was reverse coded, but 19oo was not
reverse coded. Problem corrected.
3/19/03
Discrepancies between selected sibling name and name in sibnm.dbf
(database of sibling names from 1975 interview) pointed to by
SSBPOS (sel sib position in sib table) revealed these errors.
Old records were checked to determine the origin of the discrepancy.
In some cases, the interviewer wrote down the number of the sib
indicated on the top line of the random number selection, rather
than the number on the bottom line. (The top line referred to the
number of siblings in the household; and the bottom line indicated
the position of the randomly selected sibling.) This incorrect
sib was asked about and traced from that time forward. SSBPOS continued
to point to the sib who should have been randomly selected. To correct
this situation, SSBPOS will be changed to the sibling who was actually
asked about in '75 and subsequently followed. (This affects idswls
525025, 765027 and 769019 280034).
In other cases, the correct randomly chosen sibling was asked about
in 1975 and then a different sibling was traced in 1977 and 1992. If we
have completed interviews for 1977 or 1994 from the sibling, then
the 1975 data is set to ref/na and SSBPOS is changed to point to
the sibling who was followed in 1977 and/or 1994. (This affects
159123 and 288017 210020 360217). If the sel sib was not interviewed in
1977 or 1994, RK066SSE will be coded "3" to indicate that a different
sel sib was asked about in error in 1992. (This affects
347008, 120004, 417052 and 59026 422042 and 329018)
Note that we first determined correct sel sib position in sib table
by comparing 75 questionnaire and sibnm.dbf. Then modified SSBPOS
to take into account R's postion in sib table.
OLD NEW
DATE AUT IDUSER VAR VALUE VALUE REASON FOR CHANGE
2/19/03 347008 RK066SSE 1 3 See proceeding 3 paragraphs
120004 RK066SSE 1 3
422042 RK066SSE 1 3
59026 RK066SSE 1 3
4/01/03 The code to create RK028SSC mistakenly coded 18 cases as 2,
rather than 7 or 9. Codes prior to fix:
Obs IDUSER RK001SS SIBSLV RK028SSC RK066SSE
1 1118 9 1 2 8
2 31018 9 1 2 8
3 31056 9 1 2 8
4 57009 9 1 2 8
5 59004 9 1 2 8
6 60016 9 1 2 8
7 78046 7 1 2 8
8 94029 9 1 2 8
9 117001 9 1 2 8
10 159018 7 1 2 8
11 188023 7 1 2 8
12 253010 9 1 2 8
13 268048 9 1 2 8
15 278030 9 1 2 8
16 286011 9 1 2 8
18 338048 7 1 2 8
19 365011 7 1 2 8
20 409023 9 1 2 8
Relevant section from ssib.sor:
1 RK028SSC Does respondent have any
biological or adopted brothers or
sisters who are living?
(RK001SS, IN75, SBLV, z401,
z40b, 401x)
{IN75, SBLV, z401, z40b, 401x}
1 YES
2 NO
7 DON'T KNOW
8 INAPPROPRIATE (NO SIBLINGS,
SBLV = 0,99)
9 REFUSED, NOT ASCERTAINED
* if IDUSER=53221 or IDUSER=54235 then RK028SSC = 2;
else if IDUSER=300036 or IDUSER=276041 then RK028SSC = 1;
else if RK001SS = 1 then RK028SSC = 1;
else if RK001SS = 3 then RK028SSC = 9;
else if RK001SS eq 4 then RK028ssc = 1;
else if SBLV=0 or (IN75=1 and SBLV=99) then RK028SSC = 8;
else if SBLV=1 and IN75=1 then RK028SSC = 2;
else if vz401=0 and vz40b=0 then RK028SSC = 8;
else if v401x = 8 then RK028SSC = 7;
else if v401x ^= . then RK028SSC = v401x;
else if v401x = . then RK028SSC = 9;
The line "else if SBLV=1 and IN75=1 then RK028SSC = 2;" set
RK028SSC to 2 for those grads who were interviewed in 1975 and
had only one living sibling at that time, even if they responded
refused or don't know to whether or not the sibling was living
in 1992.
To correct: For the 18 cases listed above:
if RK001SS eq 7, then code RK028SSC 7 also.
else if RK001SS eq 9 then code RK028SSC 9 also.
For variables RK029SSD through RK066SSE, change the wording for
the inap category from INAPPROPRIATE (NO LIVING SIBLINGS, RK028SSC ^=1)
to INAP (NO SELECTED SIBLING, RK028SSC ^=1)
02/03 It was determined that the conversion factor for lbs to kg was wrong. The new conversion factor (kg = lbs* .45359237) was taken from the National Institute of Standards and Technology web site:
http://physics.nist.gov/Pubs/SP811/appenB8.html#G. The old and new frequencies for the public data are posted below. R Body Mass (OLD VALUES - Public) Cumulative Cumulative MX011REC Frequency Percent Frequency Percent ------------------------------------------------------------- 12 2 0.03 2 0.03 13 5 0.07 7 0.10 14 14 0.20 21 0.31 15 44 0.64 65 0.95 16 142 2.07 207 3.01 17 334 4.86 541 7.87 18 525 7.64 1066 15.51 19 666 9.69 1732 25.19 20 786 11.43 2518 36.63 21 842 12.25 3360 48.87 22 733 10.66 4093 59.53 23 658 9.57 4751 69.11 24 497 7.23 5248 76.33 25 398 5.79 5646 82.12 26 296 4.31 5942 86.43 27 229 3.33 6171 89.76 28 157 2.28 6328 92.04 29 104 1.51 6432 93.56 30 87 1.27 6519 94.82 31 57 0.83 6576 95.65 32 42 0.61 6618 96.26 33 29 0.42 6647 96.68 34 16 0.23 6663 96.92 35 14 0.20 6677 97.12 36 9 0.13 6686 97.25 37 2 0.03 6688 97.28 38 5 0.07 6693 97.35 39 3 0.04 6696 97.40 40 3 0.04 6699 97.44 41 2 0.03 6701 97.47 42 2 0.03 6703 97.50 43 2 0.03 6705 97.53 44 1 0.01 6706 97.54 45 1 0.01 6707 97.56 55 2 0.03 6709 97.59 68 1 0.01 6710 97.60 99 165 2.40 6875 100.00 R Body Mass (NEW VALUES - Public) Cumulative Cumulative MX011REC Frequency Percent Frequency Percent ------------------------------------------------------------- 15 2 0.03 2 0.03 16 3 0.04 5 0.07 17 7 0.10 12 0.17 18 35 0.51 47 0.68 19 75 1.09 122 1.77 20 180 2.62 302 4.39 21 311 4.52 613 8.92 22 456 6.63 1069 15.55 23 527 7.67 1596 23.21 24 694 10.09 2290 33.31 25 626 9.11 2916 42.41 26 628 9.13 3544 51.55 27 728 10.59 4272 62.14 28 468 6.81 4740 68.95 29 396 5.76 5136 74.71 30 347 5.05 5483 79.75 31 297 4.32 5780 84.07 32 230 3.35 6010 87.42 33 187 2.72 6197 90.14 34 126 1.83 6323 91.97 35 86 1.25 6409 93.22 36 72 1.05 6481 94.27 37 60 0.87 6541 95.14 38 45 0.65 6586 95.80 39 34 0.49 6620 96.29 40 24 0.35 6644 96.64 41 15 0.22 6659 96.86 42 10 0.15 6669 97.00 43 13 0.19 6682 97.19 44 7 0.10 6689 97.29 45 2 0.03 6691 97.32 46 6 0.09 6697 97.41 47 1 0.01 6698 97.43 48 6 0.09 6704 97.51 49 1 0.01 6705 97.53 50 4 0.06 6709 97.59 52 1 0.01 6710 97.60 99 165 2.40 6875 100.00
Oct 15, 2001 UPdated cor572.asc to include more details re. cognition scoring. Also copied this to the appendix. This is part of appendix G for wave 3. The .tar file is not yet recreated. January 10,2002 UPdated cog scores according to recommendations in
cor740.asc.
2/28/02 xjobc.asc doc only. Added following note to clarify creation
of sg056jje.
No questions regarding degree of seriousness of danger were asked
of the respondent. SG056JJE was constructed from SG055JJD.
SG056JJE=1,NOT SERIOUS OR EXTREME (If SG055JJD = 4,20,22,25,27,30-32)
SG056JJE=2,SERIOUS DANGER (If SG055JJD =1-3,5-6,8-9,11,19,21,23-24,
26,28,33)
SG056JJE=3,EXTREME DANGER (If SG055JJD = 7,10,12-18,29)
04/02/02 xasst.asc updated note with sr043rec to make it clear that
0 total asstes may be due to missing values for all items
included in the sum.
3/28/02 lj xbegv write variables for date of phone interview SA012RE
as 3 separate variables.
Use of variable in format mmddyy is awkward.
* month SA012REM, day SA012RED, year SA012REY;
And for date mail interview returned * month SA013REM, day
SA013RED year SA013REY.
8/29/02 cor578 - referenced in intr Appendix L was updated
It was reworded so it was clear that the maximum is
16 transfers to children - not max of 16 children.
Also added info about transfers that reached limit due to
finite number of transfers per reason.
added note and modified description of rq026kd to make
clear that this is number of transfers/ not number of children.
162-163 SQ026KD Number of transfers to children for
financial help from respondent. (660,
661a,661b,664,665a,665b,668,669a,669b,
672,673a,673b,676,677a,677b,677d,680,
682,681a,681b,681c,688,689a,689c,689d,
RQ026KD)
00 990 992
01 361 380
02 345 400
03 250 297
04 128 168
05 73 78
06 46 50
07 32 29
08 13 10
09 6 10
10 1 6
11 1 2
12 3 2
13 0 1
97 DON'T KNOW 3 2
99 REFUSED TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT 72 53
GIVING TO CHILDREN, NOT ASCERTAINED
Note: For each transfer, we know the birth order of the child (SQ027nn),
whether or not the child is the selected child (SQ028nn), the sex
of the child (SQ029nn), the amount of money transferred to the
child (SQ030nn), why the child received money (SQ031nn) and the
most recent year child recieved money (SQ032nn).
There are 13 sets of these variables. SQ026KD indicates how many
have valid entries;nn is the table number. Table entries are in
descending order by amount child received. Missing values for
amount are at the end of the table. If the respondent replied
with don't know to all questions about transfers to children,
then all variables in the table are coded "don't know". There
5 cases of this type. If the respondent refused to answer any
questions about transfers to children, then all tables entries
are coded "refused/ not ascertained". There are 125 cases of this
type.
Note: The survey instrument allowed for transfers to children for each of
these reasons: down payment on a home (3), enter or continue
business or farm (3), increase wealth or decrease debt (3), medical
expenses (4), housing or other living expenses (4), educational
expenses (3), and other (4). The number in parenthesis indicates
maximum number of transfers allowed for that reason. The total number
of transfers in the actual data was 13.
Sep-Oct 2002
Many variables that were previously available to the public are
now unavailable. Cor642.asc has complete details - noted by
** added 2002 **
These items are now restricted from the public:
State in any form includes residence, job, death.
However, for 1992 and 1994 state of residence at time of
interview will retain distinction between Wi vs nonWi
for the public.
Month of birth or death of any person.
Cause of death of any person.
Day of 75, 77, 92,94 interview.
3/28/02
* change century month of birth (SA002REC) so that it is month
(now SA002REM) and
year (SA002REY). Month will no longer be available to the public
and day (SA003REC)
of birth will no longer be available to private users. Moved day
to restrict subdirectory.
10/02 psyb NP046REC Items 41m 41t 41hh and 41oo should have
been reversed prior to summing to obtain NP046REC. However
the .sor file showed that 41pp was reverse coded, but 41oo
was not reverse coded. See cor756 for more details.
Problem corrected
10/02 The items summed as Hostility index in NU033REC
should have been separated into a Speilberger anxiety
index and a Speilberger anger index. These new variables
with associated variable for number of questions have been
created.
NUA33REC Speilberger anxiety index.
NUB33REC Number of anxiety items answered.
NUA34REC Speilberger anger index.
NUB34REC Number of angr items answered.
These new variables replace NU033REC and NU034RE.
Due to the addition of new variables in the
ascii data file column locations for variables NU035RER to
NU054RER were changed (shifted down 3 columns).
02/03 It was determined that the conversion factor for lbs to kg was wrong. The new conversion factor (kg = lbs* .45359237) was taken from the National Institute of Standards and Technology web site:
http://physics.nist.gov/Pubs/SP811/appenB8.html#G. The old and new frequencies for the public data are posted below. Body mass index (OLD VALUES - Public) Cumulative Cumulative NX025REC Frequency Percent Frequency Percent ------------------------------------------------------------- 8 1 0.02 1 0.02 9 1 0.02 2 0.05 13 7 0.17 9 0.22 14 8 0.20 17 0.42 15 36 0.89 53 1.30 16 76 1.87 129 3.18 17 205 5.05 334 8.22 18 305 7.51 639 15.73 19 393 9.68 1032 25.41 20 441 10.86 1473 36.26 21 527 12.97 2000 49.24 22 391 9.63 2391 58.86 23 396 9.75 2787 68.61 24 294 7.24 3081 75.85 25 226 5.56 3307 81.41 26 176 4.33 3483 85.75 27 125 3.08 3608 88.82 28 88 2.17 3696 90.99 29 58 1.43 3754 92.42 30 37 0.91 3791 93.33 31 42 1.03 3833 94.36 32 27 0.66 3860 95.03 33 27 0.66 3887 95.69 34 20 0.49 3907 96.18 35 8 0.20 3915 96.38 36 11 0.27 3926 96.65 37 6 0.15 3932 96.80 38 3 0.07 3935 96.87 39 1 0.02 3936 96.90 40 1 0.02 3937 96.92 41 1 0.02 3938 96.95 42 1 0.02 3939 96.97 44 1 0.02 3940 97.00 48 1 0.02 3941 97.02 57 1 0.02 3942 97.05 99 120 2.95 4062 100.00 Body mass index (NEW VALUES - Public) Cumulative Cumulative NX025REC Frequency Percent Frequency Percent ------------------------------------------------------------- 14 1 0.02 1 0.02 15 3 0.07 4 0.10 16 4 0.10 8 0.20 17 7 0.17 15 0.37 18 23 0.57 38 0.94 19 58 1.43 96 2.36 20 102 2.51 198 4.87 21 186 4.58 384 9.45 22 255 6.28 639 15.73 23 315 7.75 954 23.49 24 400 9.85 1354 33.33 25 365 8.99 1719 42.32 26 389 9.58 2108 51.90 27 371 9.13 2479 61.03 28 297 7.31 2776 68.34 29 251 6.18 3027 74.52 30 204 5.02 3231 79.54 31 161 3.96 3392 83.51 32 130 3.20 3522 86.71 33 94 2.31 3616 89.02 34 74 1.82 3690 90.84 35 48 1.18 3738 92.02 36 36 0.89 3774 92.91 37 31 0.76 3805 93.67 38 38 0.94 3843 94.61 39 24 0.59 3867 95.20 40 22 0.54 3889 95.74 41 20 0.49 3909 96.23 42 9 0.22 3918 96.45 43 6 0.15 3924 96.60 44 7 0.17 3931 96.77 45 4 0.10 3935 96.87 46 2 0.05 3937 96.92 47 1 0.02 3938 96.95 48 3 0.07 3941 97.02 53 1 0.02 3942 97.05 99 120 2.95 4062 100.00