WLS Codebooks

Note: Codebooks contain frequency data from the private data release. For some variables, these differ from the frequencies in the public release. Variables that differ between the public and private versions include "(not available on public release)" as part of the variable description, or a note indicating the difference between the public and private versions.

Mail: General

Sibling Mail: General Module

OVERVIEW

This module includes items pertaining to the overall characteristics of the
mail survey process.


BRIEF VARIABLE DESCRIPTIONS

  DA001RER:             Time Sibling Respondent Took to Complete Survey.

  DA003RER:             Data Entry Interviewer Number.

  DA004DRE-DA004YRE:    Day, Month, and Year that Survey was Returned.
  

NOTE: See Cor813 in Appendix A for variable creation details

da001rer: How many minutes did it take you took to complete this questionnaire?

Data source: Sibling Respondent      Collected in: 2005      Mode: mail
Source variables: timecomp

Frequencies
Value Label Male Female Total
. System missing - NR 2569 2232 4801
-3 REFUSED 503 1062 1565
-1 DON'T KNOW 1 5 6
0 - 90 533 408 941
92 - 120 395 260 655
130 - 180 271 221 492
190 - 900 165 153 318

da003rer: Data Entry Interviewer Number.

Data source: Sibling Respondent      Collected in: 2005      Mode: mail
Source variables: inum_2

Frequencies
Value Label Male Female Total
. System missing - NR 2569 2232 4801
1 - 1373 440 441 881
1443 - 1784 459 565 1024
1786 - 1876 386 462 848
1877 - 1992 411 471 882
2000 - 629196 172 170 342
Note: Recoded to match public interviewer number for telephone.

da004dre: Day mail survey returned.

Data source: Sibling Respondent      Collected in: 2005      Mode: mail
Source variables: retday
*NOT AVAILABLE ON PUBLIC RELEASE*

Frequencies
Value Label Male Female Total
. System missing - NR 2569 2232 4801
-4 NOT ASCERTAINED 0 7 7
1 - 6 417 456 873
7 - 12 375 419 794
13 - 18 381 445 826
19 - 26 436 506 942
27 - 31 259 276 535
Note: Not available publicly.

da004mre: Month mail survey returned.

Data source: Sibling Respondent      Collected in: 2005      Mode: mail
Source variables: retmnth

Frequencies
Value Label Male Female Total
. System missing - NR 2569 2232 4801
-4 NOT ASCERTAINED 0 7 7
1 156 177 333
2 163 206 369
3 131 129 260
4 118 134 252
5 74 114 188
6 152 153 305
7 114 121 235
8 186 210 396
9 138 166 304
10 119 113 232
11 186 242 428
12 331 337 668

da004yre: Year mail survey returned.

Data source: Sibling Respondent      Collected in: 2005      Mode: mail
Source variables: retyear

Frequencies
Value Label Male Female Total
. System missing - NR 2569 2232 4801
-4 NOT ASCERTAINED 0 7 7
2004 225 268 493
2005 1078 1266 2344
2006 486 493 979
2007 79 75 154

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