SMORT- Sibling Mortality Closeout Module                             06/20/07
   
   OVERVIEW
        The mortality closeout module is administered when an informant informs us
        that the sibling we are trying to reach is no longer living. After establishing
        the relationship of the informant to the sibling we administer a short 
        module to collect data mainly involving updates the sibling's last employment 
        information, and information on the death itself.
        
        Mortality closeout module was not in 1990's round of data collection,
        therefore, the analysis variables created this round are not comparable to
        any specific module in surveys prior to 2003.
        
      
   BRIEF VARIABLE DESCRIPTIONS
        
        cw001if                 Relationship of Respondent to Deceased Sibling
        
        cw002if                 Sibling's Marital Status at Time of Death
                
        cw003if - cw004if       Year and State of Sibling's Death
        
        cw005if                 Year of Birth
        
        cw006ifc                Cause of Death
        
        cw007if - cw016if       Employment Variables
        
  
   CODING
  
        For details on ICD-9 coding of cw006if and cw006ifc, please see cor 867 in Appendix R.
        
        Details regarding the creation of the occupation codes are in cor863. The code in cor863
        was in SAS, and the Mortality Closeout command file was in Stata; so the code needed to be
        rewritten for this module, but it yielded the same end results.
  
  
   PROBLEMS
  
        No problems.
  
   PEOPLE
        
        Notes and Other Specified's were checked and coded by Rachel Malec
        for the following variables:
        cw001if (adec5a)
        cw006ifc (amor8, amor8a)
        cw017if (amor17)
        
        Notes and Other Specified's were checked and coded by the UWSC for the
        following variables:
        cw007if - cw016if (amor10-amor16)
        
        
        Rachel Malec also wrote this COR and wrote code for analysis variables.
  
   REFERENCES
  
          Cause of death - gw006if and gw006ifc are 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.  Also see cor867 in appendix R
          for local cause of death codes.  
          
          1990 Census Detailed Occupation and Industry codes - gw009if and gw010if:
          "1990 Census of Population and Housing Classified Index of Industries and 
          Occupations."  1990 CPH-R-4, 1992.
               
          1990 Occ Ed and Occ Inc scores - gw014if and gw015if: 
          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 - gw013if:
          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.