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

1. If the count of children in the household within the relevant age ranges differed
between the pair members, but one side had a count of children equal to the same
count from the screener roster, then the multiplicity count that corresponded to the
pair member with the same count of children as the screener was used.
2. If the count of children in the household within the relevant age ranges differed
between the pair members, and both sides had a multiplicity count that exceeded the
count of all children from the screener roster, then the number of children in the
screener roster was used as the multiplicity count. If the screener roster had missing
exact ages, then the minimum multiplicity count from the two pair members' rosters
was used as the final count.
3. The direct count and indirect count might differ because either the child listed a
sibling that the parent considered "another relative" or the parent listed a child that the
child considered "another relative." In either case, the parent was the one to answer
the FIPE3 question. Because of this, the multiplicity count from the parent's
perspective was selected as the final count, provided that the counts of children in the
household within the relevant age ranges for each pair member were equal.
4. After considering the above situations, the multiplicity counts might have still
differed without a resolution of which count should have been chosen as the final
count. This occurred because the counts of children in the household differed between
pair members, each of which differed from the screener count. Moreover, multiplicity
counts did not exceed the screener age range count. In this instance, if one of the
multiplicity counts equalled the screener age range count, then this multiplicity was
selected as the final count.
Because of the hierarchical nature of these counts, parent-child counts for 12- to 17-yearold
and 12- to 20-year-old children could sometimes be derived if the 12- to 14-year-old parentchild
count was already determined for both child focus and parent focus counts. In particular, if
one pair member's count for 12- to 17-year-old children or 12- to 20-year-old children equalled
or exceeded the final parent-child count for 12- to 14-year-old children and the other did not,
then the pair member's count that equalled or exceeded the 12- to 14-year-old count was chosen
as the final count.
R.3 Sibling-Sibling Counts
Although there were two types of sibling-sibling pairs under consideration, each
associated with two domains, the same rules could be applied to all four domains. When the
older sibling was the focus, the multiplicity count was a count of the number of siblings within
the younger age group (12 to 14 or 12 to 17). Conversely, the multiplicity count was the number
of siblings in the older age group (15 to 17 or 18 to 25) when the younger sibling was the focus.
Deciding how to assign a final multiplicity count often involved looking at a count of household
members within the age range of the siblings being counted. For example, if the older sibling
was the focus and the age ranges were 12 to 14 and 15 to 17, the number of household members
aged 12 to 14 were counted. The following general rules applied if the multiplicity counts for
each pair member disagreed:
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