National Survey of Families and Households, Wave 3: 2001-2003, [United States] (ICPSR 171)

Version Date: Jun 6, 2018

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Principal Investigator(s):
Larry L. Bumpass, University of Wisconsin--Madison. Center for Demography and Ecology; James A. Sweet, University of Wisconsin--Madison. Center for Demography and Ecology

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00171.v3

Version V3 ()

  • V3 [2018-06-06]
  • V2 [2018-05-24] unpublished
  • V1 [2005-07-21] unpublished
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Alternate Title

NSFH, Wave 3

Summary

The National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) is a longitudinal population-based survey series that seeks to examine the causes and consequences of change in American family and household structures. NSFH Wave 3 was conducted in 2001-2003 and represents the third follow-up survey. The Wave 3 sample included interviews with all NSFH Wave 1 main respondents and spouse/partner with a focal child eligible for the NSFH Wave 2 interviews, interviews with these focal children (now aged 18-34), and interviews with all other NSFH Wave 1 main respondents aged 45 and over in the year 2000, as well as their NSFH Wave 1 spouse/partner.

Citation

Bumpass, Larry L., and Sweet, James A. National Survey of Families and Households, Wave 3: 2001-2003, [United States]. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2018-06-06. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00171.v3

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Funding

United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD021009), United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute on Aging (AG10266, AG045503, AG017266)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

Region

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

2001 -- 2003

Date of Collection

2001-01-31 -- 2003-06-16

Data Collection Notes

  1. The first and second waves of NSFH can be accessed by visiting ICPSR 6041 and ICPSR 6906 respectively.
  2. 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.
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Study Purpose

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.

Study Design

The study design is cross-sectional, with several retrospective sequences.

Sample

Only a subset of the wave 1 sample was selected to re-interview due to budgetary constraints; parents of young adult children and respondents in mid-to-later life. The parent sample was comprised of main respondents with an eligible focal child. Focal children were eligible for a wave 3 interview if they were at least 3 years of age at wave 1 and had been eligible for a wave 2 interview (at least 10 years of age at time 2). All focal children were 18-34 years of age when interviewed at wave 3. The mid-to-later life sample was comprised of main respondents who did not have eligible focal children but who were 45 years and older at wave 3. The wave 3 sample did not include new spouses or partners currently living with the main respondent if different from the time 1 spouse or partner. Parents of the main respondents were also not selected for the sample. The total sample size was 18,554.

Time Method

Longitudinal: Panel

Universe

Non-institutionalized, English or Spanish speaking population aged 19 and older, living in households within the United States.

Unit(s) of Observation

Individual

Data Source

personal interviews and self-enumerated questionnaires

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

Response Rates

57%

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Original Release Date

2006-02-20

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, as well as PDF versions of the 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 3: 2001-2003, [United States]. ICPSR00171-v3. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2018-06-06. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00171.v3

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Weight

The data are not weighted. The Wave 3 data do not contain sample weights due to the non-random selection method used for this wave. For additional information on the Wave 3 inclusion criteria, please see the Field Report.

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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.