8/08/05 GPAR - Parent Module cor873.txt OVERVIEW Information about the Graduate Respondent's parent(s) was collected in the following manner: -Mortality status of the respondent's mother was requested. If the respondent's mother was deceased, information about the date, place and cause of death was ascertained. If the respondent's mother was living, information about her health, living situation, and frequency of contact with the respondent was ascertained. For a random 50 percent sample of respondents with living mothers, information about closeness and similarity in outlook was ascertained as well. If data on the respondent's mother's date of birth or name was missing from existing records, that information was ascertained as well regardless of the mortality status of the respondent's mother. All respondents were asked the nationality of their mother regardless of her mortality status. -Mortality status of the respondent's father was requested. If the respondent's father was deceased, information about the date, place and cause of death was ascertained. If the respondent's father was living, information about his health, whether he was currently married to and living with the respondent's mother if both were reported as living, his living situation if the respondent's father was not currently living with the respondent's living mother, and frequency of contact with the respondent was ascertained. For a random 50 percent sample of respondents with living fathers, information about closeness and similarity in outlook was ascertained as well. If data on the respondent's father's date of birth, name, or nationality was missing from existing records, that information was ascertained as well regardless of the mortality status of the respondent's father. -Comparison questions concerning work, finances, and family were asked of a random 50 percent of respondents whose same-sex parent lived to at least age 60. A random 10 percent of respondents whose same sex parent lived to at least age 60 were also asked to a comparison question concerning education. -Mortality status of the respondent's father and mother-in-law were ascertained if the respondent was currently married according to information collected in the interview in the marriage module. BRIEF VARIABLE DESCRIPTIONS ge050ma-gg061mab Variables for MOTHER of respondent: year of birth, month of birth, year of death, health, residence, marital status, contact with R, similar outlook to R, closeness with R. ge151ma, ge095ma Included here as new 2003 variable for MOTHER's month of birth and MOTHER's nationality, respectively. NOTE: MOTHER's month of birth is not available with public data. re057mab, re059mad From 1992 data, not replicated for 2003. ge062fa-ge073fab Variables for FATHER of respondent: year of birth, month of birth, year of death, health, residence, marital status, contact with R, similar outlook to R, closeness with R. ge163fa, ge096fa FATHER's month of birth included here as new 2003 variable and is not available in the public data. FATHER's nationality is updated from the 1975 survey for fathers whose information was missing. re069fab, re071fae From 1992 data, not replicated for 2003. ge074pab-ge075pac Variables for PARENTS of respondent: married to each other, same residence. ge076pac-ge079pad Variables for SAME SEX PARENT of respondent: lived to age 65, similarity to R in education, similarity to R in work, similarity to R financially. ge080mi Mortality status of MOTHER-IN-LAW if the respondent was currently married. ge085fi Mortality status of FATHER-IN-LAW if the respondent was currently married. OPEN-ENDED CODING DECISIONS Within the parent module for the graduate survey, the items >Eu142g< and >Eu142i< ascertain the living situation of the respondents' living mothers and fathers. In coding open-ended responses for these items, certain responses were recorded in the following manner: 1) "retirement home" was coded as "senior citizen housing"; 2) "retirement center" was coded as "senior citizen housing"; and 3) "retirement community" was coded as "community-based care". Items >E470b<, >E470bb<, >E476f<, and >E476ff< ascertain the degree of closeness and similarity in outlook the respondent has with each living parent. In some instances, the respondent indicated s/he could not answer the question appropriately because the living parent in question was mentally incapacitated. In these instances, the above items were coded as "Significant other mentally incapacitated." For respondents who were unable to choose a single answer for these scaled items, the first response they gave was coded. Items >E412s< and >E148mm< ascertain how far from the respondent a parent lives. For respondents who provided the location of their parents but no estimated distance, we coded rough estimates from state to state. For respondents who indicated they lived with their parent for only part of the year, the original answer was left intact. Items >E158f< and >E162f< ascertain the mortality status of in-laws for currently married respondents. In some instances, respondents provided the mortality status of in-laws from a previous marriage; only the mortality status of current in-laws was coded. Priority was also given to biological parents of current spouses over stepparents in regard to these items. 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 cor844a.xls. PEOPLE Megan Andrew - Writing code to create analysis variables, making corrections to raw data, checking of notes, making corrections, coding/supervising coding of open-ended responses, and writing the COR. Mandy Lauber - Making corrections to raw data, coding of 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.