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.

Phone: Children's Roster

This module includes all respondents of the telephone survey plus the
661 "mail only" respondents.  See the XBEG module for complete details
about these "mail only" respondents.

sd001kd         Total number of children reported in 1993-1994 interview.

Table entries, one of each for up to 18 children.  Last two digits indicate
the table number.  Only the prefix is specified below.

  sd003         Sex of child.
  sd004         Relationship of child to respondent.
  sd005         Mortality status of child.
  sd006         Month of child's death. (only available for phone respondents)
  sd007         Year of child's death. (only available for phone respondents)
  sd008         Living arrangement of child.
  sd010         Highest grade of child's education. (only available for 
                "mail only" respondents)
  sd014         Century month of child's birth.
 
A similar table is available in the WLS Wave 2 data for children of 
1992-1993 primary respondents.  Variable names for the table in this wave
match those in Wave 2 (except the first letter is S in this wave and R
in Wave 2). Less information was collected for this wave of data.  Thus 
some names from the numerical sequence are omitted in this table. 

The respondent was asked to list his/her children from oldest to youngest.
If the respondent listed any children out-of-order, they were reordered 
for this table.  Don't knows and refusals for birth year are at the end of 
the table. If only month is missing, it is imputed as 6.  Consecutive missing 
values remain in the reported order.  

Information not collected is coded refused/ not ascertained.  Some 
respondents reported the total number of children, but refused to give
any details about these children.  For those cases, all table entries for 
that total number of children are coded refused/ not ascertained and
the remaining table entries are coded inappropriate.  Some respondents 
refused to reveal any information regarding children (including number
of children).  These cases are coded refused/not ascertained for all 
variables in this module.

If the telephone respondent had any children who were alive, were 
biological or adopted, and were 18 years or older; then one of these 
eligible children was randomly chosen as the "selected" child.  No selected
child was chosen for respondents of the mail only survey.  Variables
for this selected child are:

sd003sk       Sex of selected child.
sd004sk       Relationship of selected child to respondent.
sd008sk       Living arrangement of selected child.
sd014sk       Century month of selected child's birth.
sd016sk       Selected child's birth order.
 
Additional information obtained about the selected child is in the
XSKID module (variables sj001sk - sj006sk).

Variable names from the mail only survey are proceeded by an "&" in the
parenthesized list of variable names included with the variable description. 

NOTE:   See APPENDIX D for Creation of Rosters.

NOTE:   See APPENDIX O - COR607, Century Months.