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

• No situations where both pair members were children in the relevant age range
but were in a spouse-spouse pair relationship and both identified the same roster
member as a parent,
• The household size was greater than 1 and nonmissing on both sides, and
• Either:
- No bad relationship codes for household members of an age to be parents,
- The total count was 2 for two parents, or
- The total count plus the number of grandparents equalled the total number of
household members aged 26 or older, according to the screener roster.
Note that it was not necessary to check for bad relationship codes in the child age
ranges, since it was already known that the count had to be at least 1, and the number
of children was not important for the parent counts.
2. The counts of parents with children in the household might have agreed even though
the above conditions were not met. The final count could still have been set to one of
the sides if it was a sibling-sibling pair, and the bad codes in the parental age range
were on one side only. This would indicate that the side with bad codes were not
missing parental codes.
3. If one pair member did not have a valid roster but the other member did, the final
count of parents with children in the household was set to the other pair member's
count if there were no bad relationship codes and no roster members with bad age and
bad gender values. Other circumstances called for setting the final count to 0, which
would necessarily be the case if the child-focus counts were 0.
4. When two different family units were in the household, the determination of the final
count of parents with children in the household had to be treated separately. This
could have included multigenerational families or two siblings both with children in
the relevant age range living in the household. The latter was more easily identified if
it was not a parent-child pair (e.g., a cousin-cousin pair). The sum of the two counts
(one count might be 0) was used under the following conditions:
• There were no bad ages or relationship codes within the relevant age ranges,
• Both pair members had counts pointing to 2 or fewer parents, meaning that the
two family units were not identifiable on a side,
• The number of identified parents was not equal to the total number of household
members older than 25 on either side, meaning that parents could correspond to
roster members identified by other relationship codes, and
• There were not three generations in the household, with first and second
generation parents both having children in the appropriate age range. This was
already accounted for by the counts for one or both sides.
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