Familial Responses to Financial Instability, Doubling Up When Times Are Tough: Obligations to Share a Home in Response to Economic Hardship, 2009 [United States] (ICPSR 26543)

Published: May 20, 2010

Principal Investigator(s):
National Center for Family and Marriage Research; Judith A. Seltzer, University of California-Los Angeles; Suzanne M. Bianchi, University of California-Los Angeles

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR26543.v1

Version V1

Summary

This study focused on household living arrangements of parents and adult children during times of financial instability. A survey of over 3,000 adults aged 18 years and older from the general population was conducted by Knowledge Networks on behalf of the National Center for Family and Marriage Research. The survey was completed by 3,132 respondents out of 4,478 cases (69.9 percent response rate). Measures include variables on financial responsibility between children and parents and a vignette on an adult child living with his parents.

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Time Period(s)

2009

Date of Collection

2009-08-14 -- 2009-08-28

Data Collection Notes

This research is supported by the National Center for Family and Marriage Research, which is funded by a cooperative agreement, grant number 5 U01 AE000001-03, between the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) in the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Bowling Green State University.

Study Design

Study design is described in the study documentation.

Sample

A description of the sampling is provided in the study documentation.

Unit(s) of Observation

individual

Data Type(s)

survey data

Mode of Data Collection

web-based survey

Response Rates

69.9 percent

Original Release Date

2010-05-04

Version Date

2010-05-20

Version History

2010-05-20 PI requested minor revisions to the study title and PI listing.

2010-05-04 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Performed consistency checks.
  • Created variable labels and/or value labels.
  • Standardized missing values.
  • Created online analysis version with question text.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Weight

Weighting is described in the study documentation.

Notes

  • 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.

  • The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented.
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