06/08/05

                    HMARR - Marriage Module			cor908.txt



OVERVIEW

Information about the Graduate Spouse's current marriage was collected in 
     the following manner:
     
     -Information about the graduate's health, long-term limiting condition(s), memory, and ability to make
      decisions and organize.
     
     -The graduate-spouse was asked the degree of similarity in outlook and closeness with the graduate.  

BRIEF VARIABLE DESCRIPTIONS 

ac038sp			Description of graduate's health. 
                              
     
ac039re               	Similarity of outlook on life with graduate.
                             
     
ac040re               	How close respondent is with the graduate.
                              

av005sp-av006sp      	Description of the graduate's most serious limiting condition
                 
ac096sp-ac099sp	 	Variables ascertaining the state of the graduate's memory and ability to make decisions 
			and organize.
  

OPEN-ENDED CODING DECISIONS

    In the marriage module, item >hc79< was specified as an open-ended response and ascertained the 
    graduate's most serious limiting condition if the spouse reported the graduate had such a condition in the
    previous item.  This item was coded using the International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision.  
    Details on the coding of all disability items can be found in corXXX.      
        
    
PROBLEMS

    Problems occurred in the coding of the Cases instrument and during 
    the interviewing process.  Problems with the instrument that 
    affected codes for analysis variables are included as notes with 
    the affected variables in the codebook. Details regarding the 
    problems with individual cases which occurred during the interviewing 
    process are listed in corXXX.xls.   


PEOPLE

   Megan Andrew -  Writing code to create analysis variables, making 
     corrections to raw data, checking notes, making corrections,  
     coding/supervising coding open-ended responses, and
     writing the COR.
     
   Mandy Lauber - Making corrections to raw data, coding open-ended responses
     
REFERENCES

    Cause of death - gd008 is coded to ICD9 codes using "International 
    Classification of Diseases 9th Revision Clinical Modification: 
    ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes" (Volumes 1 & 2). Washington, D.C.: U.S. 
    National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), 1998.