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

• If the spouse-spouse counts exceeded the spouse-spouse-with-children counts by
one for each pair member, even though they were unequal to each other, then the
final spouse-spouse-with-children count was set to one less than the final spousespouse
count.
10. Based on earlier conditions, we already excluded households without couples. We
also excluded households with a possibility of two or more couples. If the pair
relationship was parent-child and at least one count was nonzero, then the identified
couple corresponded to the parent-child relationship. The maximum of the counts was
selected under the following conditions:
• The sum of counts from the two pair members was 1.
• Either:
− The relationship was parent-child where the child was between the ages of 12
and 17, or
− The relationship was parent-child where the child was between the ages of 18
and 20 and the child had siblings younger than 18.
11. In some cases, two couples were identified in the household where the household was
multigenerational (one member of the younger couple was in a parent-child
relationship with the older couple). If a sibling to the pair member in the younger
couple was selected, or if a member of the younger couple was selected who "married
into" the family, then he or she was not able to identify the nephews, nieces, brothersin-law,
or sisters-in-law––which could point to an appropriate accounting of all the
couples with children––because of the relationship codes that were available. The
maximum of the two counts was selected under the following conditions:
• There were two couples in the household, as identified by the final spouse-spouse
count.
• The difference between the pair members' counts was 1.
• Either:
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The pair member with the smaller count had a spouse or partner and the pair
member with the larger count had parents in the household, or
The pair member with the smaller count had parents-in-law or children-in-law
in the household.
12. If a couple was in a marriage/partnership that occurred after an earlier marriage, the
partner might not have considered the partner's children as his or her children, but the
child (who also was selected) considered the spouse/partner a parent. Even though the
pair relationship was not parent-child, these cases were still counted as spouse-spouse
with children since they consisted of the children of one spouse/partner. The
maximum count was selected under the following conditions:
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