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** NEPS STARTING COHORT 1 - RELEASE NOTES a.k.a CHANGE LOG
** changes and updates for release NEPS SC1 6.0.0
** (doi:10.5157/NEPS:SC1:6.0.0)
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* Known Issues *

xTargetCompetencies:
	- the labels for variables dsn4201 - dsn4001_sc9 (German: "Zahlenspanne" / English: "Number range") refer to the
		domain-specific construct of "digit span"

pEducator:
	- the labels for all generated variables e539020_g[1-6] suffered a labeling error. This can easily be corrected using the following
		Stata syntax:
		* -------------------------BEGIN Stata-------------------------------
		label values e539020_g* `:value label e539020'
		* ---------------------------END Stata--------------------------------

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* Changes introduced to NEPS:SC1 by version 6.0.0 *
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General:
	- new data from Wave 6 have been incorporated into the Scientific Use File
	- an updated Data Manual is under final review and will soon be published on the website
	- meta data for all variables have been revised and updated where appropriate

xTargetCompetencies:
	- due to technical problems with data storage during testing, the mathematical competence data for 12 persons
		were set to missing (-95); WLE's and SD's have been updated
	- some competence variables have been renamed with respect to the target group element (change from kX to nX)

EditionBackups:
	- this new dataset has been incorporated into the Scientific Use File for the first time; it contains raw values 
		before data edition (for more details see the updated Data Manual)


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* Changes introduced to NEPS:SC1 by version 5.0.0 *
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General:
	- meta data for all variables have been revised and updated where appropriate
	- additional wave 5 has been incorporated into the data

xTargetCompetencies:
	- new published dataset containing data from competency tests from wave 4 and later
	- methodical information on these competency tests have been integrated into the MethodsDirectMeasures dataset.


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* Changes introduced to NEPS:SC1 by version 4.0.0 *
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General:
	- meta data for all variables have been revised and updated where appropriate
	- additional wave 4 has been incorporated into the data

	
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* Changes introduced to NEPS:SC1 by version 3.0.0 *
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General:
	- meta data for all variables have been revised and updated where appropriate
	- additional wave 3 has been incorporated into the data
	
pParent:
	- the concept of reflecting migrational background in NEPS SUFs has been improved in order to also represent migrants in 3.75th generation;
		thus, the older variables on migrational background [p400500_g1,p400500_g2,p400500_g3] in the pParent dataset have been renamed using
		the "v1" suffix [p400500_g1v1,p400500_g2v1,p400500_g3v1], and the new ones have been introduced

xDirectMeasures:		
	- For 49 observations (27 from wave 1 and 22 from wave 2), no information in xDirectMeasures is available;
		in version 2.0.0, these cases had been coded 0 in all competency variables and 
		therefore remained in dataset xDirectMeasures; starting from version 3.0.0, these cases have
		consequently been erased from xDirectMeasures.
	- For wave 3, parent-child-interaction had been measured (again), but will not be published within this release.
		The parent-child-interaction-data will be likely available with release 4.0.0.
 
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* Changes introduced to NEPS:SC1 by version 2.0.0 *
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General:

	- translation for all meta data (variable and value labels, question texts, etc) have been revised and completed
	- meta data for all variables have been revised and updated where appropriate
	- additional wave 2 has been incorporated into the data

pParent:

	- the variable set containing information from the multiple-response question "Birth complications" had been erroneously
		named [p529101] through [p529106] in version 1.0.0; this conflicts to other variable names in NEPS Starting Cohorts 2 and 3;
		the battery has been renamed to [p529110] through [p529115]