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VAR 000917 Y4x. Sp educ. Summary

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
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       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


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   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)]

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Walter Mebane
Mon Nov 19 01:35:33 EST 2001