document Since CAPI 2002 (Computer Assisted Personal Interview)
provides various information on the length of
interview time, there are three elasped interview time
variables newly added to the remp7202p.sys.
The original data set of GSS2002 has three interview time
variables. First, it provides a cumulative
elapsed time for Section A to I. Second, it also gives
an elapsed time for SAQ only. Lastly, it contains a
total elapsed time variable for the entire interview. In
order to utilize all information in the original data, we
created three interview time variables as follows:
LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW
LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I
LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ
(Entered 04 OCT 05)
DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-2004
GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH
CENTER.
*** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE ***
*** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-2004 ***
*** CODEBOOK. ***
THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE,
BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND
RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK.
USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE
TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES'
STATETMENTS ARE
INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A
CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES
'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE
BEEN DECLARED MISSING.
*** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING
*** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. ***
FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID
CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA
HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE
VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH
BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE
RECOMMEND THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE
VARIABLES FOR
WHICH THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE:
HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN UNRELAT
VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO
EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP MSLMTEMP
RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL CHLDSOON
TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 DIVREL1 DIVREL4 UNEMP5 UNREL1 UNREL4
HOSDIS5 HOSREL1 HOSREL4 DEATH5 DEATH16 PADEATH MADEATH
CHLDDTH TO TRATOT5 DEFSPDR TO CUTSPDFG NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5
MEMNUM SWITNUM SWITAGE1 TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG WRKYEARS
EMPYEARS JOBYEARS SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM
GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH LIVECOM LIVEHOME
NUMKIDS CIDEKNEW CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3
SUIKNEW SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 AIDSKNOW AIDSREG AIDSREG2
AIDSREG3 PARTNERS SEXFREQ SEXFREQ2 NUMWOMEN NUMMEN
PARTOPEN PARTOPN5 PARTNRS5 SIBORDER WORDA TO WORDJ WORDSUM
AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4 OLD5 OLD6 OLD7
OLD8 OLD9 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 VISITORS
COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 KDEDUC1 TO KDEDUC9
SIZE SBPICKED KDPICKED INCOM16
FSTSPEDC FSTSPMED FSTSPPED SPFAM16 SPPAEDUC SPMAEDUC
SBEDUC SBDEG ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8 SPSIBS LIVECOM1 NUMDAYS
SHAKEBLU TO PROUD HOWANGRY REACTOK TO SELFRESP AMIMP
HRSHLTH TO HRSOTH TOTHLTH TO VALOTH GIVECONG TO GIVEOTH
SHOPNUM OCCYRS
NUMFREND NUMBWFRD RELHRS2 RELHRS1 NUMCONG OTHYRS
SITEYRS LOCYRS YRJOBEND WHYJBEND
PAYMASON TO GIVROCC USWHT TO USMIXED EMSENT TO EMGETP
WWWMIN WWWHR CHATMIN CHATHR EMAILMIN EMAILHR INCMINW INCHRW
JOBMINW JOBHRW
ECOMMINH TO WWWHRH ECOMMINW TO WWWHRW ECOMMINO TO WWWHRO
ARTSMIN ARTSHR
HLTHINFO TO ARTGN POLCANGN
WAIT1 TO WAIT11
COMWHT TO COMAMIND
PAYMASON TO GIVROCC
NUMCNTCT WWWMINO WWWMINH WWWMINW WWWHRO WWWHRW WWWHRH
MOREDAYS PHYSHLTH TO HLTHDAYS HURTATWK
NUMPROBS BYEMPROB
STOCKVAL EXTRAVAL YEARVAL SEECOWRK COWRKHRD
TALKSUP COMYEAR NUMRELEX DRINKMAX
NUMFRAT TO NUMINFRM
YRFRAT1 TO YRINFRM5
YRSKWN1 TO YRSKWN5 DEMTODAY DEM10PST DEM10FUT
CANINF1 CANINF2 CANINF3 CANINF4 CANINF5
CANINF6 CANINF7 CANINF8 CANINF9 CANINF10
CANINF11 CANINF12 CANINF13 CANINF14
YEARSJOB SIBNUM KIDNUM FININD1 OWNHH1 EDDONE1 FTWORK1
SUPFAM1 HAVCHLD1 GETMAR1 COWRKFRD NEIFRD OTHFRD COMYEAR
RHHWORK SPHHWORK JOBINFO JOBPAPER JOBPUB JOBCOWRK JOBCNTCT
JOBFRNDS JOBPLACE JOBTVRAD JOBONWWW HRSRELAX AGERELEX AGERBORN
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*** IMPORTANT NOTE ON WEIGHTS
***
THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-2004 CUMULATIVE GENERAL
SOCIAL
SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE
PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION
IN 1982 AND 1987 and for the sub-sampling design used
in 2004.
A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THE BLCAK
OVERSAMPLES.
THUS WEIGHTED THE FILE WILL BE ADJUST FOR THE
OVERSAMPLE OF
BLACKS.
THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS
IS APPROPRIATE:
1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR
SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL
2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987)
SUBFILES,
Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL
CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK
OVERSAMPLE SUBFILE.
3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM
THE POOLED 1972-2004 SAMPLE.
IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT
THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP.
IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82
(Y87)
AND Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS
NOT
NECESSARY.
ALSO, WHEN USING ANY VARIABLES FROM THE 2004
GSS ONE OF THE
WEIGHT VARIABLES, WT2004 OR WT2004NR,
MUST BE USED. THE REASON
FOR USING THE WEIGHTS IS EXPLAINED IN APPENDIX A OF THE CODEBOOK.
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*
* NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING
* INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN
ADDITIONAL
* FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED.
WEIGHT VARIABLES, WTSS OR WTSSNR,
(Entered 12 JAN 07)
document Length of Interview in 2004 (LNGTHINV)
This is based on the CAPI time stamps from the start of the main
interview (excluding the HEF) to the end of the CDC risk behavior
section. Initially, we had also included the interviewer remarks and
validation section in the total time, but had to exclude this section
when we found that in a high number of cases interviewers had not
finished this section and turned off the computer immediately after
the interview, but left it on and finished their remarks at a later
time. This greatly exaggerated the length of this final section and
thus the total supposed interview time.
There were two cases with no times recorded and we recoded two more
cases to missing. One shows a total time of 10 seconds. Another has a
total time of 28786 seconds, but with its length getting shorter as
sections were completed.
That still left a number of cases in either tail of the distribution
that were highly improbable. About 1% of cases were under 30 minutes
and 1% over three hours.
We examined the section-by-section times for the long cases and
inspected the record of calls for a sample of these cases. The
section-by-section timings often indicated extra-long timing for a
single section. This may indicate an extended interruption occurring
them. However, many of these extra long times were so long (1-2
hours) that they may not represent mere interruptions, but other
occurrences such are errors in the CAPI timings or having the
interview conducted in two sessions. Unfortunately for most cases the
record of calls had no useful information to help explain the
unusually long times. However, among the extra long cases for which
there was some useful information, many were done in two or more
sessions on different days and it is likely that the CAPI program did
not correctly combine these different times. Also, the record of
calls did partially validate one interview of almost 4 hours. The
interview noted that it was done in between the respondent waiting on
customers.
We likewise looked at the extremely short cases. There was little
information that we could find to explain or validate these
lengths. Some may be valid since they did overrepresent shorter
ballots and respondents (e.g. those not in the labor force) who
skipped major sections. However, some also involved cases completed
over two or more different dates and we believe that they may reflect
only partial times from one of the sessions.
Overall, we believe that the extremely short and long cases include a
high, but not precisely known, number of errant times. In addition,
there are undoubtedly some timing errors among cases in the less
extreme range.
Looking at reported times (excluding the four missing cases) shows a
mean length of 87.3 minutes and a median of 83 minutes. If low times
are recoded to a minimum of 30 minutes and high times to a maximum 180
minutes, the mean length is 86.9 and the median still 83 minutes.
(Entered 09 JUL 07)
LNGTHEND: TOTAL ELASPED MINUTES OF INTERVIEW for 2002
LNGTHCUM: CUMULATIVE ELASPED MINUTES FOR SECTIONS A-I for 2002
LNGTHALL: SUMMED ELASPED MINUTES OF SECTION A-I AND SAQ for 2002
DOCUMENT WHOELSE1-WHOELSE6 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN GSS SINCE 1994.
IN 1994, THEY WERE ONLY ASKED FOR VERSION 7-9
DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1998
GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL
OPINION RESEARCH CENTER.
*** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1998 ***
TREATMENT
OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE
RECOMMEND
THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR
WHICH
THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE:
HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN
UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE
POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND
TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS
MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL
CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG
NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5
SWITNUM TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW
AIDSKNOW PARTNERS PARTNERS5 PARTOPEN PARTOPN5
SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM
GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH
LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM
NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN
NUMMEN
CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3
SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2
DK RDK UNDK WEEKSWRK SIZE AGE1 TO AGE5 WRKYEARS
JOBYEARS EMPYEARS COLMAJR1 TO HSCLASS2 ALIKE1 TO ALIKE8
VISITORS
FSTSPDEG RELATIVES SPBIBS
SPFAM16 SIBORDER OLD1 OLD2 OLD3 OLD4
OLD5 OLD6 OLD7 OLD8 OLD10 OLD11 OLD12 OLD13 OLD14 YEAR
*** IMPORTANT NOTE
THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-96 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL
IN 1982 AND 1987.
A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE.
THUS WEIGHTED WILL ADJUST FOR THE OVERSAMPLE OF
IS
APPROPRIATE:
OVERSAMPLE
SUBFILE.
THE POOLED 1972-1998 SAMPLE.
IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87)
AND
Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT
* INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL
(Entered 18 APR 01)
(Entered 09 MAR 06)
(Entered 19 SEP 07)