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

• The pair member with the maximum count had two grandparents of a different
gender, and the pair member with the minimum count did not have any.
The assumption here, of course, is that the grandparents of a different gender were in
fact a spouse-spouse pair. There was no way to check whether a grandfather was the
father's father and the grandmother was the mother's mother, for example.
19. Even though the household composition may match in terms of ages across the
screener roster and the two pair members' rosters, the counts may disagree where two
spouse-spouse pairs were clearly identified by one pair member but not the other.
This may be because one of the in-laws was incorrectly identified on one side, or
because a partner was not considered an in-law by a responding pair member, or
because a partner did not consider other family members as "in-laws." The following
conditions were required for the maximum count to be selected:
• The number of screener roster members aged 12 or older matched the
corresponding count from the questionnaire rosters of both pair members.
• The pair member with the maximum number of spouse-spouse pairs had a spouse
or partner and also had two parents.
• There were no bad relationship codes among roster members aged 15 or older on
either pair member's roster.
20. If the counts for each pair member were not equal but the number of roster members
aged 12 or older was the same between the two pair members, and the count for one
pair member was the maximum possible in the household, then that number was
selected as the final count. This condition was applied only after all other conditions,
including conditions where the final count was ambiguous, had already been applied.
21. After accounting for all other rules, if the number of spouse-spouse pairs was still
missing, but the lower and upper bounds for imputation were equal to each other, then
the final household-level person count was set to one of those bounds.
S.4 Spouse-Spouse Counts (with Children)
The household counts for spouse-spouse counts with children obviously depended upon
the counts obtained for spouse-spouse counts with or without children. The first two rules
described in this section were determined directly from the spouse-spouse counts or from the
household size, and no reconciliation of counts was necessary:
1. For a sizable proportion of cases, clearly no couples with children could be in the
household, either because the spouse-spouse count was 0 or the household size was
two or less. In these cases, the final spouse-spouse-with-children count was set to 0.
2. An additional small number of cases also could be readily determined by looking at
the spouse-spouse count. If one pair member had a spouse-spouse-with-children
count that equalled or exceeded the final spouse-spouse count, but the other pair
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