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

member had a spouse-spouse-with-children count that was smaller than the final
spouse-spouse count, then the final spouse-spouse-with-children count was set to the
pair member's count that was consistent with the final spouse-spouse count.
The remainder of cases involved households with at least one spouse-spouse couple.
After assigning values for the conditions described above, the assignment of values for these
cases was done using the rules described in the rest of this section. If two family units had been
previously identified in the household, the following rule was used to determine the final
household person count:
3. 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 the
spouse-spouse count was greater than 1. In that event, the maximum count was used.
Otherwise, reconciling the counts to a nonmissing value always required the following
condition: There was no potential for two or more couples in the household that were not already
obviously identified, whereby one of the pair members had at least four roster members of at
least 15 years of age. This respondent had grandchildren younger than 18 years of age, did not
have children-in-law, and had household members aged 12 or older who were not children,
grandchildren, siblings, children, parents, spouses, or partners. For all remaining cases where a
final household count needed to be assigned––in addition to the above condition (unless
specifically noted below)––the final count was assigned using the following rules:
4. For cases that were not already determined by looking at the previous two conditions,
the counts for the two pair members (if there were two pair members) were equal in
the vast majority of cases. The final count could be set to each pair member's count
under the following conditions:
• Both pair members had valid rosters.
• Either:
−
The counts were nonzero and equal to the final spouse-spouse count, or
− There were no bad relationship codes for roster members younger than 18,
and one of the following conditions held for at least one pair member:
The pair member's roster had no bad relationship codes for roster members
aged 15 or older,
The pair member was older than 18 and had neither children nor siblings
younger than 18 (covers zero counts since no bad codes were for members
younger than 18), or
The pair member was younger than 18 and did not have parents, but there
was one bad relationship code among roster members older than 18 in that
pair member's roster (covers zero counts since only one bad relationship
code could potentially be a single parent but not a pair of parents making a
couple).
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