|Summary for Variable Group: Non-biological children|
|This variable group provides information on whether the respondent raised her husband/partner's children or other non-biological children, and how many of those children she raised. Additional information is provided for the first three non-biological children who lived with the respondent. This information includes the child's sex, relationship to the respondent, date of birth, Hispanic origin, and race, as well as whether the respondent adopted the child, when the child came to live with the respondent, whether the child still lives with the respondent, and whether the child was born in the U.S.
|Century month second non-bio child came to live with R|
|IFSS_CMOKDCAM_1, IFSS_CMOKDCAM_2, and IFSS_CMOKDCAM_3 represent the century month in which each of the first three non-biological children came to live with the respondent.
General Comparability Notes
Summary: Century month the child began living with the respondent was obtained by asking either for the actual date the child began residing with the respondent or for the month and year that occurred - all dates were then converted to century months. Interviewers are instructed to probe for a season when a month is not known.
The respondent universes for these variables were functionally equivalent (the respondent reported having non-biological children that had been under her care). The only differences in the applicability criteria, such as that the respondent had not yet begun her period or had never been married or pregnant, are unlikely to result in many, if any, women being left out of the question sample who would have been included otherwise.
The universe of children to whom the question applies varies between years. In 1995, the question was asked of all non-biological children who ever lived with the respondent. In 2002, however, the child universe was restricted to only non-biological children who currently live with the respondent. This change in universe could pose analytical problems; concerned analysts can use IFSS_STILHEROK to determine which children were still in the household to create entirely comparable universes.
We chose to harmonize only the first three non-biological children across the studies to keep this variable consistent with the other non-biological children variables.
Imputation Flag Exists
|Imputation Flag Values|
|1||Imputed in original study|
|3||Month imputed (Original file edit)|
|4||Age known, month imputed|
|5||Originally imputed as June, recoded to random month|
|7||Multiple regression imputed: Not ascertained|
|8||Multiple regression imputed: Refused|
|9||Multiple regression imputed: Don't know|
|10||Midpoint of a given range|
|11||Answer comes from a follow-up question|
|12||Midpoint of a range given as a follow-up|
|13||Answer is rounded up|
|14||Answer is rounded down|
|15||Reported months and weeks, weeks<=4|
|17||Reported months=weeks & weeks>4|
|18||Reported months!=trunc(weeks/4.35), months!=weeks, weeks>4|
|19||Months coded NA/RF/DK|
|20||Weeks coded NA/RF/DK|
|21||Impossible to determine which method used last|