$FL2@(#) IBM SPSS STATISTICS 64-bit MS Windows 21.0.0.0 23 Y@08 Sep 1712:46:55 AGE AGE OF RESPONDENT X@X@COHORT YEAR OF BIRTH @SEX RESPONDENTS SEX RACE RACE OF RESPONDENT MARITAL MARITAL STATUS "@CHILDS NUMBER OF CHILDREN "@EDUC HIGHEST YEAR OF SCHOOL COMPLETED@X@X@X@EDUCR COLLAPSED EDUC REGION REGION OF INTERVIEW REGION4 .RESPONDENTS REGION CONDENSED INTO 4 CATEGORIES BORN WAS R BORN IN THIS COUNTRY @"@WRKSTAT LABOR FORCE STATUS "@EARNRS HOW MANY IN FAMILY EARNED MONEY "@INCOME16TOTAL FAMILY INCOME ;@X@INCOMECAINCOME CATEGORIES SATFIN %SATISFACTION WITH FINANCIAL SITUATION @"@SATJOB Work satisfaction @"@PARTYID POLITICAL PARTY AFFILIATION @"@PARTYID3%POLITICAL AFFILIATION BY 3 CATEGORIES POLVIEWSPOLITICAL AFFILIATION FUND !HOW FUNDAMENTALIST IS R CURRENTLY @"@ATTEND &HOW OFTEN R ATTENDS RELIGIOUS SERVICES "@BIBLE FEELINGS ABOUT THE BIBLE @"@SPKATH ALLOW ANTI-RELIGIONIST TO SPEAK @"@ABRAPE PREGNANT AS RESULT OF RAPE @"@CAPPUN (FAVOR OR OPPOSE DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER @"@OWNGUN HAVE GUN IN HOME @"@GUNLAW FAVOR OR OPPOSE GUN PERMITS @"@POLHITOK'EVER APPROVE OF POLICE STRIKING CITIZEN @"@POLABUSE%CITIZEN SAID VULGAR OR OBSCENE THINGS @"@HELPBLK SHOULD GOVT AID BLACKS? @"@RACOPEN VOTE ON OPEN HOUSING LAW @"@DISCAFF WHITES HURT BY AFF. ACTION @"@RACLIVE ANY OPP. RACE IN NEIGHBORHOOD @"@CLOSEBLKCLOSE BLACK 3 CATEGORIESNATRACE "IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF BLACKS @"@SPKRAC ALLOW RACIST TO SPEAK @"@CONARMY CONFIDENCE IN MILITARY @"@CONCLERG CONFIDENCE IN ORGANIZED RELIGION @"@CONEDUC CONFIDENCE IN EDUCATION @"@CONFED "CONFID. IN EXEC BRANCH OF FED GOVT @"@CONGOV $CONFIDENCE IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENTCONJUDGE&CONFID. IN UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT @"@CONLABORCONFIDENCE IN ORGANIZED LABOR @"@CONLEGISCONFIDENCE IN CONGRESS @"@CONMEDICCONFIDENCE IN MEDICINE @"@CONPRESSCONFIDENCE IN PRESS @"@INTUSE )USE INTERNET/APPS MORE THAN OCCASSIONALLY @"@INTWKDYH!HOURS OF INTERNET USE ON WEEKDAYS X@X@ZODIAC RESPONDENTS ASTROLOGICAL SIGN X@X@@V@ 89 OR OLDER X@DK X@NA IAP @NA ?MALE @FEMALE IAP ?WHITE @BLACK @OTHER ?MARRIED@WIDOWED@DIVORCED @ SEPARATED @ NEVER MARRIED "@NA  @ EIGHT OR MORE "@DK NA @X@IAP X@DK X@NA ? Less than 8 @8-11 @12 @13-15 @16 @ 17 or More  NOT ASSIGNED ? NEW ENGLAND @MIDDLE ATLANTIC@E. NOR. CENTRAL@W. NOR. CENTRAL@SOUTH ATLANTIC @E. SOU. CENTRAL@W. SOU. CENTRAL @MOUNTAIN "@PACIFIC IAP ?East @Midwest@South @West  IAP ?YES @NO @DK "@NA  " IAP ?WORKING FULLTIME @WORKING PARTTIME @TEMP NOT WORKING @UNEMPL, LAID OFF @RETIRED@SCHOOL @ KEEPING HOUSE @OTHER "@NA   @ EIGHT OR MORE "@NA  IAP ? UNDER $1 000 @$1 000 TO 2 999@$3 000 TO 3 999@$4 000 TO 4 999@$5 000 TO 5 999@$6 000 TO 6 999@$7 000 TO 7 999 @$8 000 TO 9 999"@$10000 TO 12499$@$12500 TO 14999&@$15000 TO 17499(@$17500 TO 19999*@$20000 TO 22499,@$22500 TO 24999.@$25000 TO 299990@$30000 TO 349991@$35000 TO 399992@$40000 TO 499993@$50000 TO 599994@$60000 TO 749995@$75000 TO $89999 6@$90000 TO $109999 7@$110000 TO $129999 8@$130000 TO $149999 9@$150000 TO $169999 :@$170000 OR OVER;@REFUSEDX@DK X@NA  ? Under $10 000 @$10 000 to 19 999 @$20 000 to 29 999 @$30 000 to 39 999 @$40 000 to 49 999 @$50 000 to 59 999 @$60 000 to 74 999 @$75 000 to 89 999 "@$90 000 to 109 999 $@$110 000 to 129 999 &@$130 000 to 149 999 (@$150 000 to 169 999 *@$170 000 or More IAP ? SATISFIED @ MORE OR LESS @NOT AT ALL SAT @DK "@NA IAP ?VERY SATISFIED @MOD. SATISFIED @A LITTLE DISSAT@VERY DISSATISFIED @DK "@NA  STRONG DEMOCRAT?NOT STR DEMOCRAT @ IND,NEAR DEM @ INDEPENDENT @ IND,NEAR REP @NOT STR REPUBLICAN @STRONG REPUBLICAN @ OTHER PARTY @DK "@NA ?Democrat @ Republican @Other ?Liberal@Moderate @ Conservative IAP ?FUNDAMENTALIST @MODERATE @LIBERAL @DK "@ NA-EXCLUDED  NEVER ?LT ONCE A YEAR @ ONCE A YEAR @SEVRL TIMES A YR @ ONCE A MONTH @ 2-3X A MONTH @NRLY EVERY WEEK@ EVERY WEEK @MORE THN ONCE WK "@DK,NA IAP ? WORD OF GOD @ INSPIRED WORD @BOOK OF FABLES @OTHER @DK "@NA IAP ?ALLOWED@ NOT ALLOWED @DK "@NA %IAP ?FAVOR @OPPOSE @DK "@NA IAP ?YES @NO @REFUSED @DK "@NA IAP ?GOVT HELP BLKS @AGREE WITH BOTH@NO SPECIAL TREATMENT @DK "@NA IAP ? OWNER DECIDES @CANT DISCRIMINATE @NEITHER @DK "@NA  IAP ? VERY LIKELY @SOMEWHAT LIKELY@NOT VERY LIKELY @ DONT KNOW "@NA !? Not Close @Neither Close nor not close @Close #IAP ? TOO LITTLE @ ABOUT RIGHT @TOO MUCH @DK "@NA $IAP ? A GREAT DEAL @ ONLY SOME @ HARDLY ANY @DK "@NA  &'()+,-./IAP ?Yes @No @DK "@NA 0NA DON'T KNOW IAP X@DK X@NA 1IAP ?ARIES @TAURUS @GEMINI @CANCER @LEO @VIRGO @LIBRA @SCORPIO"@ SAGITTARIUS $@ CAPRICORN &@AQUARIUS (@PISCES X@DK X@NA 2]ndocument Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 19 SEP 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 19 SEP 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 19 SEP 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 19 SEP 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 19 SEP 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 19 SEP 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 19 SEP 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 19 SEP 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 19 SEP 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 19 SEP 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 19 SEP 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 19 SEP 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 19 SEP 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 19 SEP 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 19 SEP 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 19 SEP 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 19 SEP 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 19 SEP 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 19 SEP 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 19 SEP 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 19 SEP 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 19 SEP 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 19 SEP 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 19 SEP 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 19 SEP 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 19 SEP 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 19 SEP 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 19 SEP 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 04 OCT 05) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 JUL 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 JUL 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2 DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 VISITORS FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 18 APR 01) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 12 JAN 07) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 09 MAR 06) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 09 MAR 06) document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV) This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and thus the total supposed interview time. There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as sections were completed. That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes and 1% over three hours. We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2 hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the record of calls had no useful information to help explain the unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which there was some useful information, many were done in two or more sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on customers. We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little information that we could find to explain or validate these lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect only partial times from one of the sessions. Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition, there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less extreme range. Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180 minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes. (Entered 19 SEP 07) document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) provides various information on the length of interview time, there are three elasped interview time variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys. The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time variables. First, it provides a cumulative elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In order to utilize all information in the original data, we created three interview time variables as follows: LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002 LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002 LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002 (Entered 19 SEP 07) DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994. IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9 (Entered 19 SEP 07) DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER. *** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE *** *** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 *** *** CODEBOOK. *** THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK. USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' STATETMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES 'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE BEEN DECLARED MISSING. *** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING *** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. *** FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE: HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4 HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5 MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9 SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16 FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH SHOPNUM OCCYRS NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW JOBMINW JOBHRW ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO ARTSMIN ARTSHR HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN WAIT1 TO WAIT11 COMWHT TO COMAMIND PAYMASON TO GIVROCC NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK NUMPROBS BYEMPROB STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5 YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5 CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10 CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14 YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1 SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN ****************************************************** *** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS *** ****************************************************** THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used in 2004. A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK OVERSAMPLES. THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF BLACKS. THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE: 1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL 2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE. 3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE. IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP. IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY. ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004 GSS ONE OF THE WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR, MUST BE USED. THE REASON FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK. ******************************************************** * * NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING * INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL * FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. ******************************************************** (Entered 19 SEP 07)          AGE=age COHORT=cohort SEX=sex RACE=race MARITAL=marital CHILDS=childs EDUC=educ EDUCR=educr REGION=region REGION4=region4 BORN=born WRKSTAT=wrkstat EARNRS=earnrs INCOME16=INCOME16 INCOMECA=incomecat SATFIN=satfin SATJOB=satjob PARTYID=partyid PARTYID3=partyid3 POLVIEWS=polviews3 FUND=fund ATTEND=attend BIBLE=bible SPKATH=spkath ABRAPE=abrape CAPPUN=cappun OWNGUN=owngun GUNLAW=gunlaw POLHITOK=polhitok POLABUSE=polabuse HELPBLK=helpblk RACOPEN=racopen DISCAFF=discaff RACLIVE=raclive CLOSEBLK=closeblk3 NATRACE=natrace SPKRAC=spkrac CONARMY=conarmy CONCLERG=conclerg CONEDUC=coneduc CONFED=confed CONGOV=congov CONJUDGE=conjudge CONLABOR=conlabor CONLEGIS=conlegis CONMEDIC=conmedic CONPRESS=conpress INTUSE=INTUSE INTWKDYH=INTWKDYH ZODIAC=zodiac3 age:$@Role('0' )/cohort:$@Role('0' 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