CHANGE NOTICE
Change Notice #26 – 07/07 Updated WLS Data from WLS 1957
- 2004
If you received WLS data before
Additional Survey Data Available
Variables from the 2005 selected sibling phone survey and
mail back
questionnaire are available in
this most recent release.
Corrections/Additions to Previously Released Data
Status and Descriptive Variables
- Variables added to indicate the outcome of
sibling phone and mail
interviews: xstat05p-phone XSTAT05M-mail.
- Mortality variables updated for recently
deceased graduates and
siblings.
livgrad - Is the graduate alive?
deatyr - Year of graduate's death.
deatmn - Month of graduate's death. (added for private users only)
xlivsib - Is the sibling alive?
xdeatyr - Year of sibling's death.
xdeatmn - Month of sibling's
death. (added for private users only)
- Month and year of birth updated for
approximately 200 cases in which
it was previously missing.
cmbrdx - Century month of
graduate's birth.
brdxdy - Year of graduate's birth.
xcmbrdx - Century month of
selected siblings birth.
xbrdxdy - Year of selected
siblings birth.
1957-1994 Graduate and Sibling Surveys
- 1957: Renamed district to discode, so can match with HS with district data, private users
only.
- 1975-1994: Variables for grad and sib proxy
report of spouse's education
were misleading in previous versions of the data. edlsp combined current
spouse's education in 1975 (for grad's currently married in
1975) and
spouse's education at time of marriage (for grad's no longer
married
in 1975) into one variable labeled "Educational
attainment of
current/last spouse."
edlspu is now
spouse's education at time of
marriage for grads who are no longer married in 1975. mrceds
remains
available with code for spouse's education at time of 1975 interview
for grads who were married in 1975. Similar changes were made for
siblings’ variables xedlsp and xedlspu. The 1993
graduate and 1994
sibling variables were also incorrectly labeled and
contained "mixed"
codes. Two variables
now replace rc010sp. rca10sp
is spouse's
education in 1975 for those graduates who are still married
to 1975
spouse; and rcb10sp is spouse's education at time of
marriage for those
graduates who have been married since 1975 interview or who
were not
interviewed in 1975.
Similar variables for siblings - sca10sp
and scb10sp replace sc010spc.
- 1975: Childhood: Parent Information and Job
Aspirations
Label on bmfaed was confusing.
The way it was constructed, made
it fairly close to head of household education; the name and
handbook
indicated father's education. Corrected by creating two separate
variables: 1. bmhhed, Best measure
head of household and 2. bmfaedu
Updated best measure of father's education.
Two variables
used to construct bmmaed and bmfaed
were updated/corrected
in 1983 and 1993 and these updates and corrections were not
carried
over to bmmaed and bmfaed. These corrections/ updates are not
in bmmaedu and bmfaedu.
1122 cases differ in value between
bmfaed and bmfaedu.
497 cases change for bmmaed to bmmaedu. Bmfaed and
bmmaed are available in the
archived data set only.
See Appendix
D, Cor972 for more details about these updates.
2004 Graduate Survey
- Summary variables - Additional variables
about the graduate
2004 interview added.
GA501RE -
GA675RE: Date of Each Attempted Contact
with Graduate.
Includes
Unusable Partial Cases.
GA701RE -
GA875RE: Interviewer number of the
person who made each
attempted
contact with the graduate.
Includes
unusable partial cases.
GA005RE Zip code of
graduate's residence at time of 2004
interview
now available for private users only.
- Phone: Mortality Closeout- Variables from the
mortality closeout
questions are available now. The mortality closeout is
administered
when an informant indicates that the graduate we are trying
to reach
is no longer living. A few questions about graduate's last
employment and death are asked.
- Phone: Non-normative children screener. Variables removed from both public and
private data until
fall 2007 in order to carefully check all responses and analysis variables.
- Phone: Non-normative Child - Only one
variable (gh135 Does this
child have a developmental disability or a mental illness?) remains in
the data file at this time.
Remaining variables as listed in the
overview will be available in fall 2007 after extensive
checking
correcting of data. gh135 is available to both public and private
users.
- Phone: Children - Updates to about 120 cases
for selected child
variables. Previous
versions wrong selected child due to death of sel
child before 1993 interview.
Affected variables are: GD003SK
GD004SK
GD104SK
GD005SK GD007SK GDA07SK GD207SK GD009SK GD010SK GD011SK
GD210SK
GD014SK GD017SK GD018SK GD019SK GJ002SK GJ021SK GJ022SK
GJU25SK
GJ032SK GJ033SK GJ034SK GJ035SK GJ036SK GJ037SK GJ038SK
GJ043SK
GJ044SK GJ045SK GJ046SK GJ047SK GJ048SK GJ049SK GJ050SK
GJ051SK
GJ057SK GJ059SK
- Analysis variables for 467 graduates who were
interviewed by mail
and not by phone are now included with graduate 2005 data.
- Phone: Marriage roster. Added gc191sp: Relationship since R's spouse
retired; and gc194sp: Main condition R's spouse has that
limits work.
Corrections
to 134 cases for GC011SP, GC012SP and GC013SP; to 316
cases for GC216SP and to 2373 cases for GC316SP (change from
not
ascertained to inap since never
intended to ask). Unresolved notes
were cleared up and appropriate changes made to the data.
- Phone: Household roster. Largest household is 9 members, removed
rostered variables 10-12. Added variables GE00901-GE00909, Number of
years
household member has lived with respondent.
Updated GE004n, gender of household member. Many cases coded gender unknown now have a valid
gender code. Error in conversion to age
corrected for variable GE00502. 2901 cases affected.
- Phone: Cognition Similarities - items which
were coded discrepantly by
different coders
were reviewed, and the discrepancies resolved.
- Phone: Internet - Corrections made to
separate -2 (inapplicable)
and -4 (not ascertained). Most notable change is to GM006RE,
where the
graduate answered the question because of instrument error
(change from