COR 511 10/25/94 Creation of Respondent's Household Roster Information to determine the members of respondent's household is collected in five separate parts of the questionnaire. These five places are: marriage section, first children's roster (children born prior to 1975), second children's roster (children born after 1975), parent and parent-in-law roster, household roster (includes only those not mentioned in previous rosters/ sections). All this information has been combined into one complete household roster. See COR517 for the program which created these household member variables. The following variables are in the complete household roster: HN The actual number of household members. The respondent is always the first member of the household. If the respondent is married, the spouse is the second household member. HHLIVE Living arrangement. (RE00201, RE00202,...RE00212) ORIG Section of the questionnaire from which information for this member was obtained. (RE00301, RE00302,...RE00312) HHREL Relationship of household member to respondent. These codes also indicate member's sex. (RE00401, RE00402,...RE00412) HHAGE Age of household member at time of interview. (RE00501, RE00502,...RE00512) The largest household has twelve members. Thus, there are twelve of the preceding variables for each respondent. Notes about construction of some variables: HHLIVE Living arrangement Some members of the household are temporarily absent. Other members are currently living in the household, but may be away at other times. This variable reflects that information as much as possible. In the marriage section, question 62m asks, "Are you and your spouse currently living together?" If the answer is no, a follow-up question is asked to determine why not. These answers were assigned codes which indicated the reason why not and also indicated whether the spouse or the respondent was away from the "main" household. If it was unclear who was away and there were other members of the household; the person who lived with the other members of the household was coded as living in the "main" household. If it was unclear who was away and there were no other members of the household, the respondent was coded as "in the main household". To construct HHLIVE, the person living in the "main" household was coded 1, lives in household full-time, and the other person was coded with the reason for not currently living together. These reasons and codes are: 2 Away at work 3 Away at work (temporary assignment) 4 In the military 5 In the process of moving 6 Temporary live-in care of parent 7 Lives in retirement home 8 Illness-stays in nursing home/hospital/medical institution 9 Away for other medical reason, for ex. stay at warm place 10 Travel and extended vacation/visit 11 Has another residence elsewhere 12 Marital difficulties If answer to 62m, "Are you and your spouse currently living together?, is yes, then HHLIVE is coded 1, lives in household full-time. For the first children's roster, question 104t, "Does child currently live with you?", is asked about each child. Question 126g in the second roster is identical. If the child has attended school during the past 12 months, the respondent is asked, "Does this child live with you when school is in session?" If the answer is no, the respondent is also asked, "Does this child live with you when school is not in session?" Combining these questions results in the following possibilities for children who are currently attending school (codes are those used for HHLIVE): 13 Currently in household, lives with respondent when school is in session. 14 Currently not in household, lives with respondent when school is in session. 15 Currently not in household, lives with respondent when school is not in session, does not live with respondent when school is in session. 16 Currently in household,lives with respondent when school not in session, does not live with respondent when school is in session. Children who are not currently attending school and who are coded as living with R are coded 01 for HHLIVE. Some divorced parents have joint custody of their children. These children are coded 17. Almost all members of the complete household roster whose information was obtained from parent/parent-in-law roster or the household roster are coded 1 (lives in household full-time). There were no questions in either of these sections to directly determine living arrangements of these individuals. However, there were a few cases in the household roster for which the open- ended response for relationship was "exchange student" or "temporary foster child". These household members were coded 18, temporary household member. HHLIVE could be recoded to be similar to the part-time/full-time variable in NSFH's household roster. This could be done as follows: Full-time/part-time HHLIVE 1 Full-time 1,13 2 Part-time 2-12, 14-18 8 Inappropriate 98 For HHLIVE = 13, the follow-up question, "Does child live with you when school is not in session", is not asked if the child lives with respondent when school is in session, so it is not 100% certain that this child lives with respondent full-time. However, coding this full-time would be consistent with coding HHLIVE full-time for other household members for whom no direct questions are asked to determine amount of time in the household. HHAGE For mother and father from the parent's roster, year of birth is asked, but not month. So June is used for the month of birth in order to calculate age at time of interview. For mother-in-law and father-in-law, no birth or age information is ascertained, so HHAGE is always 99.