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

pair member, and the pair member's younger siblings also lived in the household. In
this case, the nonzero count was selected if the number of immediate family
members (parent, child, sibling, spouse, grandchild, grandparent) in the roster for
the pair member with the zero count was less than his or her total household size.
13. In some cases, one pair member called the other pair member a parent or child, but
the other pair member did not reciprocate. In the case of a child who did not
reciprocate the parent's identification of him or her as a child, the child's count was
always less than the parent's count. By the same token, in the case of a parent who
did not reciprocate the child's identification of him or her as a parent, the parent's
count was always less than the child's count. If the pair relationship was imputed to
be "parent-child," then the pair member who did not acknowledge a parent-child
relationship was overruled, and the maximum count of the two pair members was
selected as final.
14. If the pair relationship was sibling-sibling and the sibling-sibling counts were
associated with the same age range, then the household-level person counts were
obtained using the younger sibling-focus multiplicity counts corresponding to the
appropriate age range.
S.3 Spouse-Spouse Counts (with or without Children)
The multiplicity counts were not useful in the logic for the spouse-spouse household
counts, since the spouse-spouse multiplicity counts were always 1. 40 If the household size was
one, or the number of respondents aged 15 or older in the household was one or zero, then the
final household person count was set to 0 since no spouse-spouse pairs could reside under those
limits. If two family units had been previously identified in the household, the following rules
were used to determine the final household person count:
1. When two different family units were already identified in the household, then two
different parent sets were being referenced (one of the parent sets was often a single
parent). The sum of the two counts (one count might be 0) was used, provided
neither pair member had grandparents or grandchildren identified. This was to
prevent spouse-spouse pairs from being counted twice, which would happen if
grandparents were also parents of children younger than 18 years of age. If two
family units were multigenerational families, then the final count was obtained by
taking the maximum of the two pair members' counts.
2. It was possible for two different spouse-spouse pairs to be in the household, even
though two different family units had not been identified. The final count was set to
2, even though two family units had not been previously identified, under the
following conditions:
40 In rare cases, an individual might identify two spouses in the household. As noted in Section 6.3, the true
multiplicity count in these cases was not determined; rather, the multiplicity count was set to 1, due to the
complexity of determining the appropriate multiplicity count and the rarity of the occurrence of multiple spouses.
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