Questionnaire Dwelling Unit-Level and Person Pair-Level Sampling ...

was not imputed, the indirect count was selected. However, if the pair relationship
was imputed and the older pair member called the younger pair member a child, then
the older pair member considered the child's "true" parent as not a spouse or live-in
partner, even though he or she claimed the "true" parent's children. In this case, the
direct count was used (the child's adjusted count).
If the direct count was exceeded by the indirect count, then the child listed only one
parent, and the parent listed a spouse (a "stepparent") or live-in partner in the household roster.
The following rules applied:
1. The indirect count might have exceeded the direct count because the selected child
did not accept a stepparent or live-in partner as his or her parent. If this stepparent or
live-in partner was the other respondent selected, we determined that this was a childparent
pair based on the response of the "parent" to the FIPE3 question. If the FIPE3
question was answered "yes," the RELMATCH variable had a value of 3, and the
indirect count was selected as the multiplicity count. If the FIPE3 question was
answered "no," the pair was not considered a child-parent pair and was not considered
for these counts. Finally, if the FIPE3 question was not answered, the respondent was
considered a "parent" if he or she was a stepparent. If the respondent was a live-in
partner, the determination of the pair relationship was left to imputation. The
multiplicity count was set to the indirect count to account for the possibility that the
pair relationship would be imputed as parent-child.
2. Suppose the selected child did not accept a stepparent or live-in partner as his or her
parent (as above), but the other respondent selected was the "true" or "original"
parent. In this case, the stepparent or live-in partner was identified only in the
"original" parent's roster, so there was no way to determine how the stepparent or
live-in partner would have answered the FIPE3 question. The stepparent was
considered a "parent" even if the child did not view him or her this way so that the
indirect count was used. The case of live-in partners was less clear. If the live-in
partner had been selected, the determination of whether a parent-child relationship
was indicated would have involved the response to the FIPE3 question, which we did
not have since the live-in partner was not selected. Hence, these cases were left to
imputation.
3. If age range counts between the two pair members and the screener matched across a
variety of age ranges (30 to 39, 40 to 49, and 50 to 59), but the child's roster had a
bad relationship code among roster members of potential parent age (15 or older), or
the child's roster had a value of MBRSEL that did not match what was finally
determined to be the child's parent, then the multiplicity count for the parent––the
indirect count––was selected as the final count.
Parent-child pairs, parent focus. The multiplicity counts in this domain reflected the
selected parent's children and were limited to have values of at least 1. If neither side had bad
relationship codes, the following rules applied:
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