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

with children) lived within the household, the child-focus counts should have counted children
from more than one set of parents, and the parent-focus counts should have counted two or more
parents, at least one for each set of children. One situation where this occurred was where three
generations lived within the same household, with children in both the youngest and the second
generations within the relevant age range. Using the youngest generation as the reference point,
some of the parent's siblings (the grandparents' other children) were within the relevant age
range. In this instance, the parent-child domains of the number of children would have included
both children of the parents and the children of the grandparents who were in that age range. The
count of the number of parents included both the parents and grandparents (and exceeded 2).
Identifying more than one family unit in a household with children within the relevant age range
under other scenarios (e.g., two sisters both with children within the relevant age range, both
living within the same household) could not be determined from the data and had to be
disregarded. Regardless of how many family units were in the household, counts had to be
determined in different ways depending upon whether a parent-child pair "of interest" was
selected or not. Descriptions of how to obtain the household-level person counts are provided
below for the parent-child domains outlined above, first for parent-child pairs of interest, with
parent-focus and child-focus domains considered together. In this instance, the pair actually
belonged to a pair relationship where analysis using one or more of the domains listed was
possible. This was followed by descriptions for other pairs and single respondents, with parentfocus
and child-focus domains considered separately.
6.4.1.1.1 Obtaining Counts for Parent-Child Domains (Parent-Focus and Child-Focus):
Parent-Child Pairs, Child Younger Than 21
If the pair was identified as parent-child and the three-generation situation described
above was not apparent, the household-level child-focus person count was given by the parentfocus
multiplicity count. Similarly, the household-level parent-focus person count was given by
the child-focus multiplicity count. If a three-generation situation was identified and the
grandparent also had children within the relevant age range, the number of children and the
number of parents were adjusted appropriately. The final household count in this instance was
greater than the imputation-revised multiplicity count, which did not include all of the children in
the household within the relevant age range.
6.4.1.1.2 Obtaining Counts for Child-Focus Parent-Child Domains: Other Pairs and
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For other pairs and single respondents, the following conditions were required to
determine the household count for the number of children of parents in the household:
1. If the age of the respondent was within the relevant age range and that child had at
least one parent, then the child-focus counts were determined in the same way as the
parent-focus multiplicity counts: The count was of the self plus the child's siblings
24 "Other pairs" included pairs that were not within a domain of interest because the age of at least one of
the pair members was outside the relevant age range. For parent-child pairs, this applied to a pair with a child that
was 21 or older. For sibling-sibling pairs, this applied to siblings where both were within the same age range (both
were 12 to 14, 15 to 17, or 18 to 25) or at least one of the siblings was older than 25 years of age. "Other pairs" also
are referenced in Sections 6.4.1.1.3 and 6.4.1.2.2.
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