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Note About Updated Background Variables:

Education, Race and Spanish Descent

 

Updated information on Education, Race, and Spanish Descent for Head and Wife/"wife" respondents for data collection years 1994-2001 has been added to the Public Release I data files for these respective years. For new Head's and Wive's/"wive's", this information is obtained by asking questions in Sections K and L during the data collection year. For Head's and Wive's/"wive's" who participated in prior years, this information is brought forward for each year.  The procedure for bringing forward the background information is described in the documentation of respective Public Release I files. 

These variables are available through the Data-Center only.  The following tables provide the list of updated background variables:

Years Variable Name Variable Label
1994 UPEDU94H UPDATED: YEARS OF EDUCATION-HEAD
UPEDU94W UPDATED: YEARS OF EDUCATION-WIFE
UPR94HM1 UPDATED: RACE OF HEAD, 1ST MENTION
UPR94WM1 UPDATED: RACE OF WIFE, 1ST MENTION
UPR94HM2 UPDATED: RACE OF HEAD, 2ND MENTION
UPR94WM2 UPDATED: RACE OF WIFE, 2ND MENTION
UPSPD94H UPDATED: SPANISH DECENT OF HEAD
UPSPD94W UPDATED: SPANISH DECENT OF WIFE
1995 UPEDU95H UPDATED: YEARS OF EDUCATION-HEAD
UPEDU95W UPDATED: YEARS OF EDUCATION-WIFE
UPR95HM1 UPDATED: RACE OF HEAD, 1ST MENTION
UPR95WM1 UPDATED: RACE OF WIFE, 1ST MENTION
UPR95HM2 UPDATED: RACE OF HEAD, 2ND MENTION
UPR95WM2 UPDATED: RACE OF WIFE, 2ND MENTION
UPSPD95H UPDATED: SPANISH DECENT OF HEAD
UPSPD95W UPDATED: SPANISH DECENT OF WIFE
1996 UPEDU96H UPDATED: YEARS OF EDUCATION-HEAD
UPEDU96W UPDATED: YEARS OF EDUCATION-WIFE
UPR96HM1 UPDATED: RACE OF HEAD, 1ST MENTION
UPR96WM1 UPDATED: RACE OF WIFE, 1ST MENTION
UPR96HM2 UPDATED: RACE OF HEAD, 2ND MENTION
UPR96WM2 UPDATED: RACE OF WIFE, 2ND MENTION
UPSPD96H UPDATED: SPANISH DECENT OF HEAD
UPSPD96W UPDATED: SPANISH DECENT OF WIFE
1997 UPEDU97H UPDATED: YEARS OF EDUCATION-HEAD
UPEDU97W UPDATED: YEARS OF EDUCATION-WIFE
1999 UPEDU99H UPDATED: YEARS OF EDUCATION-HEAD
UPEDU99W UPDATED: YEARS OF EDUCATION-WIFE
2001 UPEDU01H UPDATED: YEARS OF EDUCATION-HEAD
UPEDU01W UPDATED: YEARS OF EDUCATION-WIFE

 and their codes are listed in this table.

Codes for Updated Variables
Variable Name Value  Code Text
Race (mention 1)
1 White
2 Black
3 American Indian, Aluet, Eskimo
4 Asian, Pacific Islander
5 Mentions Latino origin or descent
6 Mentions color other than black or white
7 Other
9 NA; DK
0 Inap.
Race (mention 2)
1 White
2 Black
3 American Indian, Aluet, Eskimo
4 Asian, Pacific Islander
5 Mentions Latino origin or descent
6 Mentions color other than black or white
7 Other
8 Multiple mentions
9 NA; DK
0 Inap
Spanish descent
1 Mexican 
2 Mexican American 
3 Chicano 
4 Puerto Rican 
5 Cuban 
6 Combination; more than one mention 
7 Other Spanish; Hispanic; Latino 
9 NA;DK
0 Inap.; is not Spanish/Hispanic
Education
1-17 Actual grade completed 
98 Still in school
99 NA
0 No education

All reports of a foreign education degree have been converted to U.S. school years.

Please contact PSID help at psidhelp@isr.umich.edu if you have questions about these variables.

 



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