Data Products » What′s Available (Public) » Cross-Wave Master ID File
| N: 30,888 | Field Dates: - | Response Rate: - | Latest Release: Oct 2008 (2006 Ver 4.0) |
| Entry Cohort Info: HRS: Original R born 1931-1941; AHEAD: Original R born in 1923 or earlier; CODA (Children of Depression): Original R born 1924-1930; WB (War Baby): Original R born 1942-1947; EBB (Early Boomers): Original R born 1948-1953 | |||
| Basic Information: | |||
| No Questionnaire Available | Data Description | No Codebook Available | No modules are associated with this product |
Alerts: | None reported for this product. |
| Important Links: | ||||
| HRS Codebook Links | Restricted Dataset Merge Cross-Reference | HRS Public File Download Area | ||
| Note(s): The Master ID File includes information from 2006. The purpose of the HRS Master ID file is to simplify the process of merging HRS files. The HRS uses two ID variables in combination to uniquely identify individuals: HHID and PN. Ideally, these would be fixed at entry into the study and never need to be changed. They would be identical for a single individual in every wave and in the Tracker file. In practice, a small but non-negligible number of individuals have had changes in their HHID or PN variables. Therefore this file creates wave-specific HHID and PN numbers that match identically to IDs on each wave, paired with the current tracker HHID and PN. | ||||
