APPENDIX G - COR 000b

  "Notes on Coding of the 1964 Follow-up Study and Recoding of
                        Questionnaires"

                       Written (8/17/62)

                        Revised  (9/80)

LIV64:
     This variable indicates whether or not the student was
known to be living or dead based on the parent's response to the
1964 questionnaire.  When the student was dead and there was any
information provided about his schooling, occupation or marital
status - that information was coded.

College Coding:

     The following guidelines were used in the coding of college
variables. In general, all colleges that were mentioned by the
parents in the 1964 follow-up were coded in chronological order.
In the few cases where an individual attended more than three
colleges, the rule was to select the schools which may have had
the greatest effect upon the student. (This included the first
and last or degree granting institution plus one other.) Summer
school attendance was coded only if it's inclusion would not
result in the loss of other data and if it was at a different
institution from the place attended for the majority of one's
academic work.

     The guidelines for coding the dates and number of years
attended did not necessarily retain all of the original
information. When coding dates of attendance, the first two
digits represent the year in which the student first attended and
the last two digits refer to the last year attended.
Interruptions in schooling for any reason (work, family or
military) are not reflected in the dates of attendance codes but
should be reflected in the number of years attended. A
chronological record of starts and stops for academic careers
will only appear on the tape if the respondent attended different
colleges after each interruption. A record may contain apparent
inconsistencies in dates or dates that are not mutually exclusive
but an examination of the records often indicates that the
respondent attended a summer session at one institution while in
continuous residence during the academic year at another
institution.

     By definition, first college was to represent only
undergraduate education. Although, if a respondent remained in
residence at the same institution for both undergraduate and
graduate education, that institution would be coded as both first
and second college with inclusive dates of attendance and number
of years of attendance reported for both first and second college
and representing both undergraduate and graduate portions of the
respondent's education. The only difference in the record for
that individual between first and second college would be the
variable for degree earned (i.e. first college = B.A. and second
college = Master's).

  The codes for degrees earned at colleges attended include a
separate code for a teacher's certificate which could be earned
in a two-year program at a County Teacher's College and was not
equivalent to a Bachelor's degree and the code for other
professional degrees includes Doctor of Veterinary Medicine.

Vocational School Coding:

      The guidelines used for the coding of vocational schools
were similar to those used for the coding of college variables. 
The information received from the parents on the vocational
school careers contained more missing data on dates and degrees
earned than the information on college careers.