VAR 000917 Y4x. Sp educ. Summary MD1: EQ 8, MD2: GE 9 COLUMNS: 1824 - 1824 Numeric Y4x. What is the highest grade of school or year of college (your husband/your wife/your partner) has completed? Did (he/she) get a high school diploma or pass a high school equivalency test? What is the highest degree that(he/she) has earned? SUMMARY: SPOUSE/PARTNER EDUCATION --------------------------------------------------------------------- Built from Y4, Y4a, Y4b. Note: 3 cases [561,1017,1719] coded 98 (DK) for number of school years in Y4 and 'no' in Y4a (no high school diploma) are coded 2 here; 3 cases [77,1057,1799] where R indicated 12 years of schooling but DK for Y4a diploma are coded 2. 1. 8 grades or less and no diploma or equivalency [0-8 in Y4, 5 in Y4a] 2. 9-11 grades, no further schooling (incl. 12 years without diploma or equivalency) [9-12 in Y4, 5 in Y4a] 3. High school diploma or equivalency test [0-12 in Y4, 1 in Y4a] 4. More than 12 years of schooling, no higher degree (13-17 in Y4, 96 in Y4b) 5. Junior or community college level degrees (AA degrees) (07 in Y4b) 6. BA level degrees; 17+ years, no advanced degree (01 in Y4b) 7. Advanced degree, including LLB [13-17 in Y4, 2-6 in Y4b] 8. DK [98 in Y4, 8 in Y4a; 98 in Y4b] 9. NA [99 in Y4; 9 in Y4a; 99 or NA in Y4b] 1 2 3 4 5 ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- Count 29 56 297 174 85 6 7 8 9 ----- ----- ----- ----- Count 218 117 6 825 ............................................................................ Y6. Occupation/employment variables represent 5 series of questions. The question series initially assigned to R in Y6(1) is determined by R's self-identification of employment status. The series occupation data are: "UNEMPLOYED" - past occupation "RETIRED" - past occupation "DISABLED" - past occupation "HOMEMAKER" (nonworking) - past occupation "STUDENT" (nonworking) - past occupation "WORKING NOW" - current occupation "TEMPORARILY LAID OFF" - current occupation Note: The final employment status summaries Y6(2)-Y6(3) are built using both R's initial self-identification per Y6(1) and additional information provided by R during questioning. The retired who are also currently working have data in both the RETIRED and WORKING NOW series; the disabled may have data in both DISABLED and WORKING NOW series. For homemaker and student Rs, the 1st question in the HOMEMAKER/STUDENT series asks whether R is currently working; if so, R is immediately transferred out of that series to the WORKING NOW series (the HOMEMAKER/STUDENT series not completed). Since many questions are asked across multiple series, data for common questions across series are "stacked" into variables V000979-V000989; for these stacked variables the following data are included: PAST employment of all retirees [15,50,51 in Y6(1)] PAST employment of the unemployed [40 in Y6(1)] PAST employment of nonworking disabled [60 in Y6(1)] PRESENT employment of working disabled [16,61 in Y6(1)] PRESENT employment of Rs working now only [10,20 in Y6(1)] or working homemaker/student [17,18,71,81 in Y6(2)] NO data for nonworking homemakers/students [70,75,80 in Y6(1)] ==============================