Appendix A - Introduction, Background, and Questionnaires. Telephone, Mail, and Sampling Selection.

  • memo067.asc - A general selection of variables for WLS data
  • memo110c.asc - The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study: A Source of Public Data on Aging in American Families
  • memo127a.asc - Selection of Sample for Sibling Study and other notes
  • memo128.asc - 1977 Sibling Study Tracing Procedures
  • memo130.asc - """Tracing Members of a Panel: a 17-year Follow-up"""
  • memo131.asc - 1975, 1977 Variable name mnemonics
  • cor000a.asc - Recoding of 1957 questionnaires - 8/18/62
  • cor000b.asc - Notes on coding of the 1964 follow-up study and recoding of questionnaires - 8/17/62
  • cor336at3.asc - Location of 1957 raw data: Status of variables and Recommendations for 1983 recoding
  • cor336at5.asc - History of Interviews
  • cor368a.asc - Sibling data construction in the 1975 survey
  • cor368.asc - Clarification of the graduate's education variable in the 1975 sibling roster - selection of birth order and education variables
  • cor446.asc - Summary of 1992/93 telephone survey
  • cor586.asc - "Coding of retrospective data collected in 1992/93 for 1975 nonrespondents"
  • cor583a.asc - Process used to identify sample members who are married to one another
  • cor607.asc - Conversion into century months
  • cor699.asc - 1975, Variables in the background section that presented special problems in cleaning and recoding
  • cor700.asc - Background variables for the 1977 sibling study
  • cor703.asc - Interviewer instructions for 1975 graduate survey
  • cor704.asc - Interviewer instructions for 1977 sibling survey
  • cor813.txt - 2004 Variable Creation for mail questionnaire
  • cor857.txt - 2004 Variable Creation for summary variables - gbeg Graduate phone survey
  • cor904.txt - 2004 Variable Creation for Summary Module - Graduate Spouse Instrument
  • ques57.asc - 1957 questionnaire
  • ques64.asc - 1964 questionnaire
  • ques75.asc - 1975 questionnaire
  • ques77.asc - 1977 questionnaire
  • rqfile.zip - Files used for the CASES CATI survey for 1975 respondents. (Contains 25 files. )
  • nrqfile.zip - Files used for the CASES CATI survey for 1975 non-respondents (contains 25 files)
  • mailq23r.wp5 - Final version of 1993 mail survey with revised menopause page (Word Perfect 5.1)
  • mqmenorg.wp5 - Original version of 1993 mail survey with original menopause page (Word Perfect 5.1)
  • wls70.asc - 1957/77 data used for 1992 survey
  • mailq.zip - Files used for data entry using the CASES software for the 1993 mail surveys sent to all respondents of the 1992 telephone surveys(contains 5 files)

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