National Survey of Families and Households, Wave 2: 1992-1994, [United States] (ICPSR 6906)
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Larry L. Bumpass, University of Wisconsin--Madison. Center for Demography and Ecology;
James A. Sweet, University of Wisconsin--Madison. Center for Demography and Ecology
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06906.v3
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The National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), Wave 2 1992-1994, a longitudinal population-based survey of families and households in the United States, investigates the causes and consequences of changes in American family and household structure. This is the second wave of a three part survey. The current study, NSFH Wave 2, is the second follow up and was conducted in 1992-1994. The sample included all NSFH Wave 1 main respondents and spouse/partner with focal children and all other NSFH Wave 1 main respondents ages 45 and over in 2000, as well as their NSFH Wave 1 spouse/partner.
The Wave 2 survey included the following components: (1) an interview of all surviving members of the original sample via face-to-face personal interview, (2) a personal interview with the current spouse or cohabiting partner almost identical to the interview with the main respondent, (3) a personal interview with the original spouse or partner of the primary respondent in cases where this relationship had ended, (4) a telephone interview with "focal children" who were originally aged 13-18 in Wave 1, (5) a short telephone interview with "focal children" who were originally aged 5-12 in Wave 1, (6) short proxy interviews with a surviving spouse or other relative in cases where the original respondent had died or was too ill to interview, and (7) a telephone interview with a randomly-selected parent of the main respondent. Demographic information collected includes sex, age, marital status, education, and employment
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- The first and third waves of NSFH can be accessed by visiting ICPSR 6041 and ICPSR 171 respectively.
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Two percent of the interviews were conducted in Spanish.
- Users of the NSFH data should consult the NSFH website to check for periodic updates of the data. The website also offers a bibliography, working papers, and other information about NSFH.
- A re-issue of the Wave 1 data was removed from this study, please see ICPSR 6041 for this dataset and study.
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This study has been undertaken explicitly to provide a data resource for the research community at large and was designed with advice from a large number of consultants and correspondents. The substantive coverage has been kept broad to permit the holistic analysis of family experience from an array of theoretical perspectives.
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National, stratified, multistage area probability sample based on 1985 population projections for Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas and nonmetropolitan counties. Minorities (Blacks, Puerto Ricans, and Chicanos), single parents, persons with stepchildren, cohabiting persons, and persons who were recently married were double-sampled. This is a follow up survey to NSFH, 1987-1988. The main NSFH wave one sample was a national, multi-stage area probability sample containing about 17,000 housing units drawn from 100 sampling areas in the 48 contiguous states in the U.S. Wave one had 13,017 respondents. The sample included a main cross-section sample of 9,643 households. The oversample of Blacks, Puerto Ricans, Mexican Americans, single-parent families and families with stepchildren, cohabiting couples and recently married was accomplished by doubling the number of households selected within the 100 sampling areas. See further details on sampling in the Methdology Report.
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Non-institutionalized, English or Spanish speaking population aged 19 and older, living in households in the contiguious United States.
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81.7
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1997-05-16
Version History View help for Version History
2018-06-06 The codebooks in this collection were edited to include the correct hyperlink for the NSFH study website.
2018-05-24 This collection has been fully curated to include ASCII, R, tab-delimited, SPSS, SAS, and Stata data files and PDF versions of study documentation.
2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:- Bumpass, Larry L., and James A. Sweet. National Survey of Families and Households, Wave 2: 1992-1994, [United States]. ICPSR06906-v3. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2018-06-06. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06906.v3
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See Appendix O in the PI Codebook: NSFH2 Final Weights and Weighting Procedure for further weighting information.
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The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.
This study was originally processed, archived, and disseminated by Data Sharing for Demographic Research (DSDR), a project funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).