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                    SSIB - Sibling Module			cor961.txt

OVERVIEW

     
    This respondent was chosen during an interview of his/her sibling who graduated
    from a Wisconsion high school in 1957.  During an interview in 1975, the 1957
    graduate was asked to list each of his/her siblings and then one of these
    siblings was randomly chosen as the "selected" sibling.  In this module, 
    questions are asked of the respondent (sibling who was randomly chosen
    in 1975) about his/her sibling.  The sibling is this module now refers to
    the 1957 high school graduate, who is referred to as "graduate"
    in this module. 

    If this graduate is deceased, then information about cause and year
    of death is collected; and if the deceased graduate was not interviewed in 2004,
    details regarding his/her last job are also ascertained.  In addition, for
    living graduates who were not interviewed in 2004, martial status and current
    labor force status are collected.  Contact, closeness, and comparison questions
    are asked of all siblings if the graduate is alive.
  
    A small portion of the siblings were asked to give death details about
    any "full or half siblings who are no longer living." In 1975, the graduate 
    was asked to report total number of siblings ever born and list a few details
    about each living sibling.  In 2004, an attempt was made to learn about 
    mortality status of all biological siblings by asking "Did you grow up with 
    any siblings who are no longer living?"  Any deceased siblings who were newly 
    found via. this death question were added to the 2004 sibling roster in the 
    graduate instrument and coded deceased.  There are still about 800 cases in which
    the number of siblings ever born (gk067ss) is greater than the total number of 
    siblings in the roster (gk073re). In order to reconcile these differences, the 
    selected sibling of the corresponding graduate was asked to list any "full or 
    half siblings who are no longer living".  cka01ss indicates if the sibling was 
    asked about deceased siblings.  Any siblings who were not already included in 
    the roster of siblings provided by the graduate were kept in variables 
    ck0021-ck1334.  All of these siblings were deceased prior to 1975 and many of 
    them died at a very young age.  Thus the graduate did not count them as "siblings 
    whom they had grown up with".  
  
BRIEF VARIABLE DESCRIPTIONS 

 ck069s            R grew up with any brothers or sisters            
                   who had a disability or mental illness?           
 
 ck001ss-ck008ssc  Mortality status; year of death and cause of death for
                   deceased graduate.          

 ck009ssc-ck027ssc For deceased graduates: details about usual work including
                   COW, 1990 census codes, major occupation and industry codes, 
                   Nakoa-Treas Prestige Rating, 1990 occupational education and 
                   occupational income scores, and year graduate stopped 
                   working at this job.

 ck034ssd,ck036ssd For those graduates who did not respond in 2004 and are 
                   alive: graduate's marital status and current work status.   
  
 ck057ssd-ck060ssg Frequency of contact sibling respondent has with
                   graduate, or date respondent last saw graduate.
   
 ck061ssd-ck062ssd Similarity of sibling respondent and graduate on
                   general outlook and closeness.

 ck063ssd-ck065ssd Comparison of respondent and graduate in terms of education,
                   work, and finances.

 ck0021-ck1334     Additional reports of biological sibling deaths: year of death,
                   age at time of death, cause of death, sex, and entity number
                   of deceased sibling. 

CODING
    
    See cor867 for cause of death coding.  
    
    
PROBLEMS
   
PEOPLE

    Brendan Day - Coding of Sibling module for Cases instrument.
   
    Linda Jordan - Writing code to create analysis variables, making 
    corrections to raw data, and writing the COR.

REFERENCES

    Cause of death - cd008ss 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.

    1990 Census Detailed Occupation and Industry codes - ck019sse and 
    ck020sse:  "1990 Census of Population and Housing Classified 
    Index of Industries and Occupations."  1990 CPH-R-4, 1992.
        
    1990 Occ Ed and Occ Inc scores - ck024sse, ck025sse: Hauser, Robert M. 
    and John Robert Warren.  1997.  "Socioeconomic Indexes for Occupations:  
    A Review, Update, and Critique."  Pp. 177-298 in _Sociological 
    Methodology_, edited by Adrian Raftery. Cambridge: Blackwell.

    1989 Nakao-Treas Prestige Rating - ck023sse: Nakao, Keiko and Judith 
    Treas.  1994.  "Updating Occupational Prestige and Socioeconomic 
    Scores: How the New Measures Measure Up."  Pp. 1-72 in _Sociological 
    Methodology, 1994_, edited by Peter Marsden. Washington, D.C.: American 
    Sociological Association.