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Phone: Cognition - Word Recall

GRECALL - Recall Module 
            
For more information on the Recall Module see Appendix G, Cor825. 

OVERVIEW

The 2004 round of data collection is the first time that 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 twelve 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

    GI401RE:                Indicates if GR is in Word Recall 80% Sample.

    GI402RE:                Creates 50% Random Sample to Select Word List 
                            1 Or 2 For GR.

    GI403RE - GI412RE:      Dichotomous Variables For Whether Or Not Sibling 
    			    Respondent Remembered Each Word On the List in Immediate.

    GI413RE:                Number of Correct Words that GR Repeated in 
                            Immediate.

    GI414RE:                Number of Incorrect Words that GR Said in 
                            Immediate.
    
    GI416RE:                Amount of Elapsed Time Between Immediate and 
                            Delayed.

    GI417RE:                Number of Words GR Did Recall in Delayed and 
                            Did Not Recall in Immediate.

    GI418RE:                Number of Words GR Forgot From Immediate to 
                            Delayed.
                            
    GI419RE:		    Flag for Review of Immediate Recall Module.
    
    GI420RE:		    Result of Review of Immediate Recall Module

    GI421RE - GI446RE:      Order of Words that GR Recalled in Immediate.

    GI447RE - GI456RE:      Dichotomous Variables For Whether Or Not GR 
                            Remembered Each Word On the List in Delayed.

    GI457RE:                Number of Correct Words that GR Repeated in 
                            Delayed.
    
    GI458RE:                Number of Incorrect Words that GR Said in 
                            Delayed.
    
    GI459RE:		    Flag for Review of Delayed Recall Module
    
    GI460RE:		    Result of Review of Delayed Recall Module

    GI461RE - GI486RE:      Order of Words that GR Recalled in Delayed.

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