05/16/06
		       HRECALL - Graduate Spouse Module		     cor900.txt

OVERVIEW

  The 2004 - 2006 round of data collection is the first time that the spouses
  of the graduates have completed the word recall cognitive task.  The purpose
  of this task is to help provide a measure for the cognitive ability of the
  respondent.  The task consists of two parts.  For the first part, the
  interviewer reads the  following instructions to the respondent:

  	"Part of this study is concerned with people's memory.  I'll read a set
  	of 10 words and ask you to recall as many as you can.  Please listen
  	carefully as I read the set of words. I'm not allowed to repeat any of
  	the words, so it's important that you can hear me very well.  When I
  	finish, I will ask you to recall aloud as many of the words as you can,
  	in any order.  Is this clear?  Ok.  The list is...".

  The interviewer then reads one of two lists of ten words, which appear one at
  a time on the interviewer's computer screen.  Once the interviewer finishes,
  the respondent repeats back as many words as he or she can remember and the
  interviewer records the repeated words.

  The second task occurs eight minutes later on average.  For the second task,
  the respondent is told:

  	"A little while ago, I read you a list of words and you repeated the
  	ones you could remember.  Please tell me any of the words that you
  	remember now."

  The respondent then recalls as many words as he or she can remember from the
  original list.  The purpose of these two tasks is to test the respondent's
  memory immediately after hearing something and then a short time later for
  comparison.

BRIEF VARIABLE DESCRIPTIONS

  ai401re		Indicates if GSR is in word recall 80% sample.

  ai402re		Creates 50% random sample to select word list 1 or 2
  			for GSR.

  ai403re - ai412re	Dichotomous variables for whether or not GSR
  			remembered each word on the list in immediate.

  ai413re		Number of correct words that GSR repeated in immediate.

  ai414re		Number of incorrect words that GSR said in immediate.

  ai416re		Amount of elapsed time between immediate and delayed.

  ai417re		Number of words GSR did recall in delayed and did not
  			recall in immediate.

  ai418re		Number of words GSR forgot from immediate to delayed.

  ai419re		Flag for review of immediate recall module.

  ai420re		Result of review of immediate recall module.

  ai421re - ai435re	Order of words that GSR recalled in immediate.

  ai447re - ai456re	Dichotomous variables for whether or not GSR remembered
  			each word on the list in delayed.

  ai457re		Number of correct words that GSR repeated in delayed.

  ai458re		Number of incorrect words that GSR said in delayed.

  ai459re		Flag for review of delayed recall module.

  ai460re		Result of review of delayed recall module.

  ai461re - ai475re	Order of words that GSR recalled in delayed.

CODING

  ai416re - ai418re & ai447re - ai475re

    Some respondents took a break in the interview after the immediate recall
    section, but before the delayed section.  These respondents, therefore,
    could not complete the delayed recall module, and so, received the code
    "MULTIPLE SESSIONS" (-15).

  ai421re - ai435re & ai461re - ai475re

    These variables receive a "DON'T KNOW/TASK COMPLETE" (-1) response as soon
    as respondent stops recalling words.  Hence, -1s grow cumulatively
    throughout section until every respondent has finished.

PROBLEMS

  Some respondents had problems during the word recall task that interviewers
  noted for review.  In addition, the word recall reviewers selected certain
  cases for review based upon score, problem codes, or other strange
  occurrences.  For detailed information on selected cases and review
  procedures, see cor900a.

PEOPLE

  Justin Resnick - Compilation of variable list, checking of notes, correction
  of raw data, supervision of case review, creation of analysis variables, and
  writing of the COR.

  Lindsay Erickson - review and correction of cases, coding and correction of
  raw data.

  Jeremy Freese - Selection of strange cases for review, writing of code for
  creation of analysis variables, and oversight/supervision of the module.

NOTES

  Some respondents who refused the immediate recall task did not complete the
  delayed recall task due to partial interviews or multiple sessions.
  Therefore, the refusals for immediate are not all the same as the refusals
  for delayed.

  While the maximum number of answers a respondent is allowed to provide in the
  word recall tasks is twenty-six, all respondents completed the task in
  fifteen.  For this reason, only fifteen iterations are included rather than
  all twenty-six.

  During case review, coders noticed and corrected some instances in which the
  interviewer entered words in the wrong order.  Because coders cannot catch
  all instances of this error, users who are interested in word order might
  consider grouping the order variables into pairs to ensure maximum accuracy.

  Spoiled cases from review are likely to be biased toward high and low scores
  because most of the cases were reviewed due to strange scores.