Data Products » Resources for Analysis of Family Data
This page brings together reference materials pertaining to HRS data content related to family issues. It contains direct links to relevant questionnaire areas, codebook content and bibliographic materials, as well as other background information.
1. Special Topics
- Longitudinal Other Person Number (LOPN) Files.
The LOPN files have been prepared to facilitate the merging of information obtained about children
and other household members in different waves of the HRS study.
Two variables, HHID and LOPN, uniquely identify children and other household-members across all waves of the study.
(Latest Release: February 2004)
- Overview of Public Files for Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analysis
provides a brief review of the HRS public data files and guidelines for using them (Last revision: 2010).
- Merging HRS Household-Member/Child Records Longitudinally: Assists analysts who may need to obtain information about children or household members obtained in an earlier wave of the study (Last revision: 2005).
2. Parent File Creation
Analysts who wish to perform longitudinal analysis of family data need to create files using a standard format for all waves of data. Instructions and sample SAS, SPSS and Stata code for Creating Parent Files with One Record per Respondent to be used in subsequent longitudinal analysis are now available.
3. Family Data Content by Questionnaire Section
|
Content |
1992 HRS (Wave 1) |
1993 AHEAD (Wave 1) |
1994 HRS (Wave 2) |
1995 AHEAD (Wave 2) |
1996 HRS (Wave 3) |
1998 HRS | 2000 HRS | 2002 HRS | 2004 HRS |
|
Preload Coversheet Demographics |
- CS A |
- CS A |
PRE CS A |
PRE CS A |
- CS A |
- CS A |
- CS A |
- A B |
- A B |
|
Health Status Health Care Utilization Health Care Costs ADLs |
B - - - |
B E E E |
B - - - |
B E E E |
B E E E |
B E E E |
B E E E |
C N N G |
C N N G |
|
Family Structure Transfers |
Coversheet E |
D - |
E EE |
D - |
D - |
D - |
D - |
E F |
E F |
|
Widowhood |
S N |
- |
S |
- |
N |
N |
N |
S |
S |
|
Divorce Event History |
- - |
- - |
S - |
- - |
- - |
N EV |
N - |
S W |
S W |
|
Experimental Modules
|
B C G |
3 4 7 9 |
6 7 8 |
1 2 3 6 7 |
2 6 7 8 |
1 3 4 |
4 5 7 |
6 |
6 |
4. Family Data Content by Codebook Section
|
Content |
1992 HRS (Wave 1) |
1993 AHEAD (Wave 1) |
1994 HRS (Wave 2) |
1995 AHEAD (Wave 2) |
1996 HRS (Wave 3) |
1998 HRS | 2000 HRS | 2002 HRS | 2004 HRS |
| Preload (Respondent) | PR | PR | PR | PR | PR | PR | |||
| Preload (HHMemberChild) | PR | PR | PR | PR | PR | PR | |||
| Preload (Sibling) | PR | PR | PR | PR | PR | ||||
| Cover Screen (HouseHold) | CS | CS | CS | A | A | ||||
| Cover Screen (Respondent) |
V1-V15 V21-V144 |
CS | CS | CS | CS | CS | A | A | |
| Cover Screen (HHMemberChild) | CS | CS | CS | CS | |||||
| Demographics (Respondent) | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | B | B |
| Family Structure (HouseHold) | V8201-V8224 V8301-V8310 | D |
E W8301-W8310 |
D | D | D | D | E | E |
| Family Structure (Respondent) | E |
E W8201-W8235 |
D | D | F | F | |||
| Family Structure (ToChild) | D | D | D | D | D | E | E | ||
| Family Structure (HHMemberChild) | V8001-V8020 |
D D |
W8001-W8028 | D | D | D | D | E | E |
| Family Structure (Sibling) | V8101-V8113 | D | W8101-W8114 | D | D | D | F | F | |
| Family Structure (FromChild) | D | D | D | D | D | E | E | ||
| Health Care Utilization and ADLs (Respondent) |
E E E |
E | E | E | E | G | G | ||
| Health Care Utilization and ADLs (Helper) | E | E | E | E | E | G | G | ||
| Assets and Income (HHMemberChild) | J | J | |||||||
| Asset Change and Widowhood (HouseHold) | S | N | N | N | N | ||||
| Asset Change (HouseHold) | R | R | |||||||
| Asset Change and Widowhood (Respondent) | S | J | S | N | N | N | N | ||
| Widowhood and Divorce (Respondent) | S | S | |||||||
| Modules (Respondent) |
Mod C Mod G |
Mod 3 Mod 4 Mod 7 Mod 9 |
Mod 6 Mod 7 Mod 8 |
M | M | M | M | V | V |
