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.
1957 - Parents
edfa57q, edmo57q Father, Mother's years of schooling sesp57 Respondent's assessment of family's income/wealth ocf57 - dadocc1 Father's occupation codes NOTE: See Appendix A - Memo067 for a general selection of variables used for previous WLS publications.
edfa57q: Father's years of schooling.
Data source: Graduate Respondent
Collected in: 1957
Mode: SAQ
Source variables: 7a
Revisions: Replacement 1/83 Archived variable: edfa57
Frequencies | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Value | Label | Male | Female | Total |
-3 | NOT ASCERTAINED/REFUSED | 131 | 116 | 247 |
-1 | DON'T KNOW | 292 | 290 | 582 |
7 | Did not attend high school | 1721 | 1980 | 3701 |
10 | Attended high school | 800 | 896 | 1696 |
12 | Graduated from high school | 901 | 895 | 1796 |
13 | Attended trade or business school | 420 | 443 | 863 |
14 | Attended college | 279 | 287 | 566 |
16 | Graduated from college | 331 | 318 | 649 |
18 | Has masters or Ph.D. | 116 | 101 | 217 |
edmo57q: Mother's years of schooling.
Data source: Graduate Respondent
Collected in: 1957
Mode: SAQ
Source variables: 7b
Revisions: Replacement 1/83 Archived variable: edmo57
Frequencies | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Value | Label | Male | Female | Total |
-3 | NOT ASCERTAINED/REFUSED | 136 | 99 | 235 |
-1 | DON'T KNOW | 294 | 182 | 476 |
7 | Did not attend high school | 1320 | 1636 | 2956 |
10 | Attended high school | 857 | 1017 | 1874 |
12 | Graduated from high school | 1472 | 1272 | 2744 |
13 | Attended trade or business school | 263 | 388 | 651 |
14 | Attended college | 201 | 263 | 464 |
16 | Graduated from college | 409 | 435 | 844 |
18 | Has masters or Ph.D. | 39 | 34 | 73 |
sesp57: How does your family income or wealth compare with families in your community?
Data source: Graduate Respondent
Collected in: 1957
Mode: SAQ
Source variables: 12
Frequencies | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Value | Label | Male | Female | Total |
-3 | NOT ASCERTAINED/REFUSED | 166 | 147 | 313 |
1 | Considerably below average | 36 | 29 | 65 |
2 | Somewhat below average | 317 | 331 | 648 |
3 | Average | 3348 | 3866 | 7214 |
4 | Somewhat above average | 1008 | 882 | 1890 |
5 | Considerably above average | 116 | 71 | 187 |
ocf57: Father's occupation by general category.
Data source: Graduate Respondent
Collected in: 1957
Mode: SAQ
Source variables: 9a
Frequencies | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Value | Label | Male | Female | Total |
1 | Unskilled or not ascertained | 1972 | 2149 | 4121 |
2 | Farming | 958 | 971 | 1929 |
3 | Skilled | 464 | 550 | 1014 |
4 | White collar | 1039 | 1093 | 2132 |
5 | Professional or executive | 558 | 563 | 1121 |
be retrieved without recoding the original 1957 questionnaires. A
decision was made not to recode this variable in 1983 since the data
from Wisconsin Tax Records were much better. See Appendix A - COR336at3
for Location of 1957 raw data: Status of variables and recommendations
for 1983 recoding.
Code 2 - farming. See Appendix E - COR074a for Revised
memo on coding of father's occupation as farmer.
dadocc1: Father's occupation, by broad category. First category chosen.
Data source: Graduate Respondent
Collected in: 1957
Mode: SAQ
Source variables: 9a
Revisions: Updated 5/97
Frequencies | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Value | Label | Male | Female | Total |
-3 | Blank, no info provided | 465 | 481 | 946 |
1 | Office work | 155 | 144 | 299 |
2 | Professional | 209 | 194 | 403 |
3 | Executive | 274 | 246 | 520 |
4 | Factory worker | 1315 | 1411 | 2726 |
5 | Salesman | 253 | 238 | 491 |
6 | Own/manage small business | 410 | 416 | 826 |
7 | Own/manage farm | 849 | 863 | 1712 |
8 | Other occupation (specify) | 1061 | 1333 | 2394 |
aspiration responses and COR617f2 for Instructions to coders for
1957 aspiration recoding.
dadocc2: Father's occupation, by broad category. Second category chosen.
Data source: Graduate Respondent
Collected in: 1957
Mode: SAQ
Source variables: 9a
Revisions: Added 5/97
Frequencies | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Value | Label | Male | Female | Total |
-3 | Blank, no info provided | 4823 | 5123 | 9946 |
3 | Executive | 4 | 1 | 5 |
4 | Factory worker | 1 | 5 | 6 |
5 | Salesman | 11 | 7 | 18 |
6 | Own/manage small business | 21 | 17 | 38 |
7 | Own/manage farm | 74 | 73 | 147 |
8 | Other occupation (specify) | 57 | 100 | 157 |
aspiration responses and COR617f2 for Instructions to coders for
1957 aspiration recoding.