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| SCRID |
Unique identifier assigned at screening. Use this identifier to merge households across interview types (e.g., to merge separated caregiver to focal child data) ... (view details) Taken from: Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study - Focal Child Interview Data, Wave 3, Restricted-Use. |
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| SEGID |
Segment identification number. This is useful only when taking steps to correct standard errors for weighting and clustering Taken from: Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study - Focal Child Interview Data, Wave 3, Restricted-Use. |
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| PU |
Primary Frame Unit. This is useful only when taking steps to correct standard errors for weighting and clustering Taken from: Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study - Focal Child Interview Data, Wave 3, Restricted-Use. |
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| HHID |
Unique household identifier. Use this identifier to merge households across interview types (e.g., to merge separated caregiver data to focal child data) ... (view details) Taken from: Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study - Focal Child Interview Data, Wave 3, Restricted-Use. |
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| SITE |
City. This is useful only when taking steps to correct standard errors for weighting and clustering Taken from: Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study - Focal Child Interview Data, Wave 3, Restricted-Use. |
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| R3CHT5WT |
Wave 3 focal child weight, trimmed at the top and bottom 5th percentiles to account for outlier values. This weight is recommended where the unit of analysis is the focal child in the cross-sectional analyses or in analyses using data from waves 1 a... (view details) Taken from: Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study - Focal Child Interview Data, Wave 3, Restricted-Use. |
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| R3LCT5WT |
Wave 3 Long. focal child weight Wave 3 longitudinal focal child weight, trimmed at the top and bottom 5th percentiles to account for outlier values. Takes a value only where a focal child has participated in all three waves of the Three-City Study. This weight is recommended where... (view details) Taken from: Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study - Focal Child Interview Data, Wave 3, Restricted-Use. |
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| R3CHE5WT |
Wave 3 equalized focal child weight Wave 3 equalized focal child weight (trimmed). This is a version of R3CHT5WT that has been transformed to give equal weight to each city in the study and normalized to have a mean of 1. Researchers on the Three-City Study historically have used equa... (view details) Taken from: Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study - Focal Child Interview Data, Wave 3, Restricted-Use. |
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| R3LCE5WT |
Wave 3 equalized long. focal child weight Wave 3 equalized longitudinal focal child weight (trimmed) Taken from: Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study - Focal Child Interview Data, Wave 3, Restricted-Use. |
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| STR |
Race/ethnicity stratum for household head. This is useful only when taking steps to correct standard errors for weighting and clustering Taken from: Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study - Focal Child Interview Data, Wave 3, Restricted-Use. |
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| ZRID |
Unique wave-specific, interview-specific identifier for focal children at wave 3, format is the letter "A"followed by the 7-digit household identifier (HHID) ... (view details) Taken from: Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study - Focal Child Interview Data, Wave 3, Restricted-Use. |
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| COMPDATE |
Calendar date when interview completed Taken from: Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study - Focal Child Interview Data, Wave 3, Restricted-Use. |
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| COMPTIME |
Clock time when interview completed Taken from: Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study - Focal Child Interview Data, Wave 3, Restricted-Use. |
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| CAPIMODE |
Whether interview conducted in-person (CAPIMODE=1) or by telephone (CAPIMODE=2) Taken from: Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study - Focal Child Interview Data, Wave 3, Restricted-Use. |
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| CCMAIN |
Respondent interviewed as continuing caregiver (1) or new caregiver (2) Taken from: Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study - Focal Child Interview Data, Wave 3, Restricted-Use. |
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| INDEP |
Focal child is reported to be living independently, i.e., not with a continuing or new caregiver (=1, otherwise =2) Taken from: Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study - Focal Child Interview Data, Wave 3, Restricted-Use. |
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| FCSEX |
Focal child's sex Taken from: Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study - Focal Child Interview Data, Wave 3, Restricted-Use. |
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| FCRREL |
Focal child's relationship to caregiver Taken from: Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study - Focal Child Interview Data, Wave 3, Restricted-Use. |
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| RFCREL |
Respondent relationship focal child Caregiver's relationship to focal child Taken from: Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study - Focal Child Interview Data, Wave 3, Restricted-Use. |
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| RSEX |
Caregiver's sex at last interview: 1=Male, 2=Female Taken from: Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study - Focal Child Interview Data, Wave 3, Restricted-Use. |
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| IWDATE |
Date of last focal child interview (may be from wave 1 or wave 2) Taken from: Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study - Focal Child Interview Data, Wave 3, Restricted-Use. |
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| INCENT |
Indicates whether household received larger incentive to participate (experimental design built into study). Taken from: Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study - Focal Child Interview Data, Wave 3, Restricted-Use. |
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| SCENARIO |
A=FC with wave 1 caregiver at each wave B= FC with new caregiver at wave 2, same caregiver at 3 (wave 1 caregiver is separated at wave 3) C=FC with wave 1 caregiver at wave 2, with new caregiver at wave 3 D=FC with new caregiver at wave 2, reunited ... (view details) Taken from: Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study - Focal Child Interview Data, Wave 3, Restricted-Use. |
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| RESERVE1 |
City in which caregiver and focal child interviewed at wave 1 Taken from: Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study - Focal Child Interview Data, Wave 3, Restricted-Use. |
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| DADDEAD |
Is focal child's father alive? Taken from: Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study - Focal Child Interview Data, Wave 3, Restricted-Use. |
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