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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.

Summary Variables

Summary Variables for Graduate Phone Instrument
              
OVERVIEW

This module contains information about the graduate rather than responses from
the graduate.  Details such as age at time of interview, place of residence at
time of interview, number of sessions to complete the interview are included in
this module.  See next section for complete details.
   
Other details about the graduate respondent that remain static such as gender,
date of birth, response status and random replicate number are not  reproduced
in this module. Those variables are available in the first module of WLS
documentation at

BRIEF VARIABLE DESCRIPTIONS

   GA003RE:             Graduate Respondent's Age at Time of Interview.        
      
   
   GA006RE:             Did Graduate Complete the Entire Phone Interview?  
   
   GA007RE:             First Unanswered Question in Q File for Partial Phone 
                        Completes.
                       
   GA008RE:             Module of First Unanswered Question for Partial Phone 
                        Interviews.
                       
   GA009RE:             Was this Interview Conducted by a CAPI Instrument? 

   GA016REM-GA016REY:   Month, Day and Year of 2004 Graduate Respondent 
                        Telephone Interview. 
  
   GA020RE:             State of Graduate Respondent's Residence at Time of 
                        2004 Interview.   
   
   GAA22RE,GAA23RE      Does Graduate Respondent reside at another residence
                        for at least two months of the year and if so state
                        of that residence.
                        
   GA029RE:             Date 2004 Graduate Telephone Interview was Delivered 
                        to WLS From UWSC.                                      
  
   GA030RE:             Number of Sessions Completed between Graduate 
                        Respondent and Interviewer.                            
    
  
   GA223RE, GA233RE,    Number of Calls Talked to Someone, Number of Calls
   GA234RE, GA235RE:    Busy, Number of Calls Made, Number of Calls Made+Msg.
   
   GA236RE:             Total Time to Complete Telephone Interview in Seconds  

  
   GA300RE:             Total Number of Attempts to Contact Respondent in
                        Order to Complete the Telephone Interview.
                        
   GA901RP, GA902RP     Whether the Graduate Respondent is Married to Another
                        Graduate in the Sample and the IDPRIV of Spouse if
                        the Spouse is Also in the Sample

   GA903RS, GA904RS     Whether the Graduate Respondent was married to another
                        Selected Sibling in the Sample and the IDPRIV of Spouse
                        if the Spouse is Also in the Sample
                        
   GA900RE-GA918RE      Geocode Variables for Graduate Respondent's location
                        at the time of 2004 interview.                


See Cor 857 in Appendix A for variable creation details

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