Appendix A

Introduction, Background, and Questionnaires. Telephone, Mail, and Sampling Selection.

• memo067.asc – A general selection of variables for WLS data
• memo110c.asc – The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study: A Source of Public Data on Aging in American Families
• memo127a.asc – Selection of Sample for Sibling Study and other notes
• memo128.asc – 1977 Sibling Study Tracing Procedures
• memo130.asc – “””Tracing Members of a Panel: a 17-year Follow-up”””
• memo131.asc – 1975, 1977 Variable name mnemonics
• cor000a.asc – Recoding of 1957 questionnaires – 8/18/62
• cor000b.asc – Notes on coding of the 1964 follow-up study and recoding of questionnaires – 8/17/62
• cor336at3.asc – Location of 1957 raw data: Status of variables and Recommendations for 1983 recoding
• cor336at5.asc – History of Interviews
• cor368a.asc – Sibling data construction in the 1975 survey
• cor368.asc – Clarification of the graduate’s education variable in the 1975 sibling roster – selection of birth order and education variables
• cor446.asc – Summary of 1992/93 telephone survey
• cor586.asc – “Coding of retrospective data collected in 1992/93 for 1975 nonrespondents”
• cor583a.asc – Process used to identify sample members who are married to one another
• cor607.asc – Conversion into century months
• cor699.asc – 1975, Variables in the background section that presented special problems in cleaning and recoding
• cor700.asc – Background variables for the 1977 sibling study
• cor703.asc – Interviewer instructions for 1975 graduate survey
• cor704.asc – Interviewer instructions for 1977 sibling survey
• cor813.txt – 2004 Variable Creation for mail questionnaire
• cor857.txt – 2004 Variable Creation for summary variables – gbeg Graduate phone survey
• cor904.txt – 2004 Variable Creation for Summary Module – Graduate Spouse Instrument
• ques57.asc – 1957 questionnaire
• ques64.asc – 1964 questionnaire
• ques75.asc – 1975 questionnaire
• ques77.asc – 1977 questionnaire
• rqfile.zip – Files used for the CASES CATI survey for 1975 respondents. (Contains 25 files. )
• nrqfile.zip – Files used for the CASES CATI survey for 1975 non-respondents (contains 25 files)
• mailq23r.wp5 – Final version of 1993 mail survey with revised menopause page (Word Perfect 5.1)
• mqmenorg.wp5 – Original version of 1993 mail survey with original menopause page (Word Perfect 5.1)
• wls70.asc – 1957/77 data used for 1992 survey
• mailq.zip – Files used for data entry using the CASES software for the 1993 mail surveys sent to all respondents of the 1992 telephone surveys(contains 5 files)