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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:

 and their codes are listed in this table.

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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