1993 AHEAD (Wave 1) Final Release Codebook

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Table of Contents

Introduction
  Acknowledgements
  Study Overview
  Sample Design, Weights
  Field Procedures
  Interview Content
  Orientation to Data: Structure, Derived Variables
  Merging Data
  Data Cleaning
  Codebook Conventions

Content of Files
  Household Level. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Contents, BHH21
  Respondent Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Contents, BR21
  Other Person Level (HH members and NR Children)
    [With expanded merged variables] . . . . . . . . Contents, BOP21
  Helper Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Contents, BHP21

Section A
  IDs and Interview Information/Weights. . . . . . . Section A, HHID
  Respondent Demographics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Section A, A1

Section B
  Physical Health. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Section B, B1
  Affective Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Section B, B21

Section C
  Cognitive, Self IW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Section C, C1
  Cognitive, Proxy IW. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Section PC, PC1

Section D
  Family Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Section D, D1
  Transfers to Others. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Section D, D37
  Parent and Sibling Information . . . . . . . . . . Section D, D58
  Other Person File (Children and HHmembers) . . . . Section D, PN
  Expanded Person File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Section D, D4b/D6/D20g/D21
     **Note: the questions in Section D are not listed in order.
     Some questions were taken out of interview sequence in order
     to keepquestions together in the Persons dataset.

Section E
  Health Care Use and Costs. . . . . . . . . . . . . Section E, E1
  Medicare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Section E, E31a
  ADL/IADL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Section E, E33
  Helper File  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Section E, E58f
     **Note: the questions in Section E are not listed in order.
     Some questions were taken out of interview sequence in order
     to keep questions together in the Helper dataset.

Section F
  Housing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Section F, F1

Section G
  Productive Activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Section G, G1

Section H
  Expectations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Section H, H1

Section J
  Income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Section J, J1
  Wills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Section J, J55

Section K
  Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Section K, K0

Section R
  Health Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Section R, R1
  Life Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Section R, R11

Modules
  Module 1, Resiliency
  Module 2, Time Use
  Module 3, ADLs (LSOA2)
  Module 4, ADLs (NLTC)
  Module 5, Similarities
  Module 6, Quality of Life
  Module 7, ADLs (In-depth)
  Module 9, Financial Pressure

APPENDIX A,  Codes

APPENDIX B,  Recodes for variables in the Expanded Person file

APPENDIX C,  Sampling and Weight Information


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