WLS Codebooks

Note: Codebooks contain frequency data from the private data release. For some variables, these differ from the frequencies in the public release. Variables that differ between the public and private versions include "(not available on public release)" as part of the variable description, or a note indicating the difference between the public and private versions.

High School Activities (1957 Yearbook)

Yearbook Activity Coding
                            
OVERVIEW

The data come from the yearbooks for the 1957 core sample of the Wisconsin
Longitudinal Study.  Yearbooks were originally obtained for a project that that
coded the physical attractiveness of the 1957 WLS graduates based on high
school yearbook pictures ( S. Meland and J. Freese).  This project scanned all
of the senior pictures with associated activities information, where available.
 They also scanned all of the remaining pages of the yearbooks, including those
describing student activities, and often providing group pictures of
participants.  All of this information was used in the development of the codes
for extra-curricular activities. Ultimately, yearbooks were obtained and coded
for approximately 80% of graduates.  Activity codings are not available for the
sibling sample.

All of a student's activities found in a yearbook were coded.  The maximum
number of found activities was twenty-seven.  Participants' detailed high
school activity codes are not available on the public release but variables
summarizing the number and types of activities are on the public release. More
information on the activity data can be found in COR816 of Appendix G.

These data were first included in WLS version 12.26.  An earlier version of
these data using variables named yrbook01-yrbook102 has been archived.  This
version has been updated by re-checking and cleaning of the data and by adding
cases that were not available at the time of the previous release. 

BRIEF VARIABLE DESCRIPTION

	cmplxschl		Was school yearbook too complex to code
	
	yrsavail       		Did yearbook have years of activities available

	allactiv		Did all students have at least one activity

	activ1 - activ27 	Detailed Activity Codes  

	years1 - years27 	Years Participating in each Activity

	leader1 - leader27 	Years of Leadership in each Activity

	varsports  		Number of All Varsity Sports

	clubsport  		Number of All Club Sports, Not including GAA

	intsport       		Number of All Intramural Sports, Including GAA

	musperf        		Number of Orchestra, Band, Chorus, Smaller Ensembles

	spchperf		Number of Drama / Speech and Debate

	hongrps        		Number of Honorary Organizations

	pepgrps        		Number of All Pep Activities

	schasst        		Number of All Categories of School Assistants

	schgovt        		Number of Student Government activities

	schpubs        		Number of Student Publications activities

	schsub         		Number of School Subject Clubs

	schact         		School Activities Not Included in School assistants, 
	               		publications or government

	hobclub        		Number of Hobby Clubs

	occclub        		Number of Occupational Clubs

	servact        		Number of Service Activities

	miscact        		Number of Misc. activities not otherwise codeable

	totact         		Total Number of All Yearbook Activities