IFSS_STILHERAD_1: First adopted child still lives with R
| Summary for Variable Group: Adoption and adopted children | ||
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| This variable group describes the respondent's experience with adoption, including whether she has ever considered adoption, as well as information about the first three children she adopted. This information includes the child's sex, relationship to the respondent, date of birth, Hispanic origin, and race, as well as when the child came to live with the respondent, whether the child still lives with the respondent, and whether the child was born in the U.S.
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| First adopted child still lives with R | ||
Availability |
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| 2002 NSFG | ||
| 1995 NSFG | ||
Source Variables |
Source Questions |
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| STILHERE8 | BJ-8 | 2002 NSFG |
| STILHERE5 | BJ-8 | 2002 NSFG |
| STILHERE4 | BJ-8 | 2002 NSFG |
| STILHERE3 | BJ-8 | 2002 NSFG |
| STILHERE2 | BJ-8 | 2002 NSFG |
| STILHERE | BJ-8 | 2002 NSFG |
| STILHE05 | BL-16 | 1995 NSFG |
| STILHE04 | BL-16 | 1995 NSFG |
| STILHE03 | BL-16 | 1995 NSFG |
| STILHE01 | BL-16 | 1995 NSFG |
| STILHE00 | BL-16 | 1995 NSFG |
Description |
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| IFSS_STILHERAD_1, IFSS_STILHERAD_2, and IFSS_STILHERAD_3 describe whether the adopted child still lives with the respondent. |
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General Comparability Notes |
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Summary: This variable is completely comparable across both surveys. The respondent was asked whether each non-biological child she reported still lives with her - this variable represents only those children she legally adopted.
The same question, "Is [child] still living with you?", was asked in both survey years. The data are exactly comparable. The universes were also equivalent (the respondent reported having non-biological children that had been under her care and whom she adopted). The differences in the applicability criteria, such as that the respondent had not yet begun her period, are unlikely to result in many women being left out of the question sample in 1995 who would have been included in 2002. We used the variables ADPTOTKD (2002) and ADPT00 (1995) to determine whether the referenced non-biological child was legally adopted by the respondent and included only those who were legally adopted to make the answers as comparable to the earlier years as possible. IFSS_ADKIDNUM provides the non-biological child index of the first three adopted children. We chose to harmonize only the first three adopted children across the studies to keep this variable consistent with the other non-biological children variables.
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