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.

Mail: Summary

na005re           Date completed mail questionnaire was received from
                  the sibling respondent.
na006re           Number of mail questionnaires sent to the sibling
                  respondent.

Twenty-three siblings in this data file are also graduates, who completed 
the mail and phone questionnaires during the 1992-93 interview. These 
siblings were not interviewed again as siblings respondents.  Their answers 
from the graduate interview were used in the sibling data file.  These 
siblings are all coded "3" for na003re; and the iduser of their data as a 
graduate in WLS23M is in na007re.

na005re: Date completed mail questionnaire was received.

Data source: Sibling Respondent      Collected in: 1993-94      Mode: mail
Source variables: artdt
Revisions: Updated 1/99     

Frequencies
Value Label Male Female Total
. System missing - NR 2535 2181 4716
-3 Not Ascertained 1 0 1
10394 - 32494 383 438 821
32694 - 51094 388 473 861
51194 - 62094 388 450 838
62294 - 72194 374 457 831
72594 - 123093 359 334 693
999996 AFTER NOVEMBER 8, 1994 9 8 17
Note: 17 sibling mail questionnaires that arrived late were added in January of 1999. All these cases are coded 999996 for NA005RE.

MMDDYY dates: integers have an implied leading zero for months JAN-SEP.

na006re: Number of mail questionnaires sent to the respondent.

Data source: Sibling Respondent      Collected in: 1993-94      Mode: mail
Source variables: anuml
Revisions: Updated 1/99     

Frequencies
Value Label Male Female Total
. System missing - NR 2535 2181 4716
1 1155 1350 2505
2 509 550 1059
3 238 260 498

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