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Multiple Respondent Households
The NLSY sample design selected as respondents all individuals ages 14-21 who resided in 1978 in a surveyed household. As a result, the 12,686 civilian and military respondents interviewed in 1979 originated from 8,770 unique households; 2,862 households included multiple respondents. The relationship of each civilian youth respondent to other respondents originating from his/her household is identified within the NLSY documentation by a set of variables, e.g., 'Relationship to Youth of 1st through 6th Other Interviewed Youth in R's Household' (R1.50 - R1.61). The variable, 'Household Identification Number' (R1.49), links respondents to the households they occupied at the time of the 1979 interview.
The primary types of relationships that existed between respondents within multiple respondent households at the time the surveys began were those of sibling and spouse. Table 3 presents, for these two relationships, the numbers of respondents and family units available for analysis during the initial survey year and in 1992. As of the 1992 survey, 4,806 respondent members of a sibling pair were interviewed; 2,149 family units (of the 2,448 identified in 1979 as having one or more sibling pairs) had at least one member of the sibling pair interviewed.
Numbers of NLSY Civilian Respondent Pairs Interviewed in 1979 & 1992
Respondent
Members Family Units
Type of Pair 1979 1992 1979 1992
Siblings 5863 4806 2448 2149
Two Siblings 3386 2744 1693 1572
Three Siblings 1725 1427 575 446
Four Siblings 604 519 151 116
Five Siblings 130 99 26 13
Six Siblings 18 17 3 2
Spouses 334 216 167 120
Last Modified Date: October 16, 2001
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