** ** NEPS STARTING COHORT 6 - DATA CHANGELOG ** changes and updates for release NEPS SC6 3.0.1 ** * spSchool & Education - missing values in ts11209 were corrected for the ALWA wave (-5 instead of -88 and -6 instead of -96); - some resulting classification errors in file Education have been corrected * spVocTrain - recoding of missing values -88 (until today) to standardized code -5 (until today) in end dates of interruption episodes (ts1532m_w*, ts1532y_w*) * spCourses - variable subspell removed; use ID_t, splink, and wave for merging with spell files * FurtherEducation - wrong codes in variables containing estimated course dates (tx2821m, tx2821y, tx2822m, tx2822y) have been corrected - missing values in tx28201 resolved * Education - episodes without any general or vocational degree deleted for CASMIN, ISCED-97 and "years of education" * Methods - variable for day of interview (intd) added - variable "Interviewer: ID" [ID_int], known as [tx80300] in release version 1.0.0, had been omitted; this has been corrected and the variable integrated into the data * pTarget - variable for day of interview (intd) added ** ** NEPS STARTING COHORT 6 - DATA CHANGELOG ** changes and updates for release NEPS SC6 3.0.0 ** *Known Issues* - labels in version 3.0.0 are not completely translated to english; full translations will follow in an upcoming data release - design weights for 283 latecomers from the ALWA study are missing - updated data manual for dataset version 3.0.0 forthcoming * General* - Wave update from Starting Cohort 6: new wave data from second NEPS main survey (2010/2011) has been fully integrated; this scientific use file comprises now three waves (ALWA 2007/2008, NEPS 2009/2010, NEPS 2010/2010); version number has been adjusted to resemble the number of cumulated wave data - sample size increase up to 11,932 adults since 283 additional cases from the ALWA subsample participated in wave 3 - Selected highlights: updated and fully integrated life course data over three waves; additional concepts (like cultural capital); data from competence assessment (introduced in 2010/2011); new regional data (microm) - new datafiles available: spChildCohab, xTargetCompetencies (competences data, wave 3), xCompMethods (para data on competence assessment, wave 3), xTargetMicrom (regional data from microm database, accessible only on-site) - all SPSS datasets now ship with NEPS missing values (range [-99;-5]) marked as MISSING - preload data for interviews in wave 3 (second NEPS wave 2010/2011) have been added; this data is usually not needed, however, it might help to understand the course of an interview - metadata for all datasets has been revised and updated where appropriate *Spell files in general* - variable spstat ('Most recent (sub-)spell status') has been revised; codes 91 and 92 have been removed - for tracing the generation of edited times in Biopgraphy, original variables from the check module have been added. This includes: starting and ending times [{variable_start_month}_g1, {variable_start_year}_g1, {variable_end_month}_g1, {variable_end_month}_g1] as corrected by the check module, a variable marking right censoring of spell after checking routines [ts2312c_g1], and an indicator variable 'type of event' [spms] from check module, discriminating between 'dominant' and 'side' spells IMPORTANT NOTE: Those variables have been added for the sake of completeness and traceability. We strongly recommand to rely on fully edited episodes times that can be found in file Biography. * Specific Issues * pTarget: - variables inty/intm (interview date) have been added for usability concerns (from file Methods) - small coding corrections for variables t731454 and t731404 - variables fpmod, t733004, and t733005 were moved to file spPartner - variable t731301_g2 ('Mother: CASMIN') now correctly classifies observations with 'other' eductional degree as 'not determinable' [-55] - variable t731351_g2 ('Father: CASMIN') now correctly classifies observations with 'other' eductional degree as 'not determinable' [-55] - variable t731301_g2 ('Mother: CASMIN') has been corrected, swapping contents of categories 7 [CASMIN 3a] and 8 [CASMIN 3b]; - variable t731301_g3 ('Mother: Years of education = f(CASMIN)') has been updated accordingly - variable t731351_g2 ('Father: CASMIN') has been corrected, swapping contents of categories 7 [CASMIN 3a] and 8 [CASMIN 3b]; - variable t731351_g3 ('Father: Years of education = f(CASMIN)') has been updated accordingly - variable t731301_g1 ('Mother: ISCED') now correctly classifies observations with 'other' eductional degree as 'not determinable' [-55] - variable t731351_g1 ('Father: ISCED') now correctly classifies observations with 'other' eductional degree as 'not determinable' [-55] - variable t731453_g2 ('Father's occupation (KldB 2010)') now adequately incorporates information about supervisory occupational tasks where needed - variable t731453_g14 ('Father's occupation (ISEI-08)') has been added - variable t731403_g2 ('Mother's occupation (KldB 2010)') now adequately incorporates information about supervisory occupational tasks where needed - variable t731403_g14 ('Mother's occupation (ISEI-08)') has been added - a new variable t405000_g1 ('Born in Germany or abroad (reconstructed)') including an categories for born in east or west Germany has been reconstructed from spell information for non wave 1 respondents, reflecting the scale of t405000_v1 - variables t413510_R/t413510_D ('Household: 1st foreign language') have been renamed to t413501_R/t413501_D - multiple response variables ("Mehrfachnennungen") have been recoded for simplifying their usage: indicator variables for "refusal", "don't know", and "not in list" have been recoded to missing codes (-98,-97,-20) in the response variables and then removed. Following multiple response sets are affected: 1) t725001-t725013: 'repeated school years'; missing indicators t725014 and t725015 removed 2) t32404k-t32404s: 'Info job'; missing indicators t32404u and t32404v removed 3) t32502k-t32502t: 'Reference job'; missing indicators t32502u and t32502v removed 4) t32303k-t32303t: 'Help with application'; missing indicators t32303u and t32303v removed 5) t32405k-t32405s: 'Information job-related course'; missing indicators t32405w, t32405u, and t32405v removed 6) t32406k-t32406s: 'Information private course'; missing indicators t32406w, t32406u, and t32406v removed 7) t32457k-t32457s: 'Social circle further education: who?'; missing indicators t32457s, t32457u, and t32457v removed 8) t743021-t743031: 'Fellow occupant'; missing indicators t743032 and t743033 removed 9) t32091k-t32091s: 'Burt'; missing indicators t32091u and t32091v removed - variables t731403_g8, t731453_g8: EGP class scheme adjusted due to errors in the derivation syntax (particularly the classes IVc and V) xTargetCompetencies *NEW FILE* - new file containing scored items and scaled values from competences assessment that was conducted at wave 3 xCompMethods *NEW FILE* - para data on competence assessment as generated by a specialized CAPI module at wave 3 spSchool: - variable ts11218 was recoded to -54 for spells collected in ALWA survey (wave 1); was set to system missing previously - variable marking right censoring of spell ts1112c has been adjusted (set to system missing for spells ending in the past) spMilitary: - variable marking right censoring of spell ts2112c has been adjusted (set to system missing for spells ending in the past) spVocPrep: - variable marking right censoring of spell ts1312c has been adjusted (set to system missing for spells ending in the past) spVocTrain: - variable ts15215 was incorrectly labeled for ALWA cases (wave 1); an additional variable ts15215_v1 containing values and labels as generated in the ALWA survey corrects for that - variable ts15214_g1 had for some cases erroneously code -55 (not determinable) instead of system missings (no specification in open input abbras) - variable marking right censoring of spell ts1512c has been adjusted (set to system missing for spells ending in the past) - variable 'Description of profession/subject (ISCO-88)' ts15291_g3 now adequately incorporates information about large company size where needed - variable 'Description of profession/subject (ISEI-08)' ts15291_g14 has been added - variable 'Aspired vocational education qualification (reconstructed)' ts15221_v1 has been reconstructed, reporting contents for successfully completed episodes only - variable 'Aspired vocational education qualification' ts15221_ha has been added - variable 'vocational education qualification' ts15219_v1 no longer reports contents for episodes not successfully completed; these episodes are edited to the value -6 'no leaving certificate' spEmp: - ts23210_* was incorrectly labeled for ALWA cases (wave 1); an additional variable ts23210_v1 containing values and labels as generated in the ALWA survey corrects for that - ts23243 was incorrectly labeled for ALWA cases (wave 1); an additional variable ts23243_v1 containing values and labels as generated in the ALWA survey corrects for that - variable 'Most recent (sub-)spell status' spstat has been revised; codes 91 and 92 have been removed - variable 'Episode updating' ts23101 is now correctly sorted before ts23102 - variable ts23201_g2 ('Job description (KldB 2010)') now adequately incorporates information about supervisory occupational tasks where needed - variable ts23201_g3 ('Job description (ISCO-88)') now adequately incorporates information about large company size where needed - variable ts23201_g14 ('Job description (ISEI-08)') has been added - variable ts23221 ('Job volume at end of occupation (part-time/full-time, reconstructed)') has been reconstructed from spell information for wave 1 interviewees, reflecting the scale of ts23218_v1 - variable ts23201_g8: EGP class scheme adjusted due to errors in the derivation syntax (particularly the classes IVc and V) - variable marking right censoring of spell ts2312c has been adjusted (set to system missing for spells ending in the past) spUnemp: - variable marking right censoring of spell ts2512c has been adjusted (set to system missing for spells ending in the past) spParLeave: - variable marking right censoring of spell ts2712c has been adjusted (set to system missing for spells ending in the past) spGap: - variable marking right censoring of spell ts2912c has been adjusted (set to system missing for spells ending in the past) - value label for variable 'Kind of gap' ts29101_v1 has been corrected, swapping categories 6 and 7 spChild: - to enhance usability when analyizing child cohabition spells, those spells - previously being stored in a wide data format - have been extracted into a new data file called spChildCohab spChildCohab *NEW FILE*: - new file containing spells of cohabitation with own or other children (the data was previously stored in wide format within spChild) - the file contains cohabation spells which might be extended over panel waves - hence, the file has a genuine spell data format involing a spell and a subspell variable - harmonzised spells are identified by spgen=1 and subspell=0; thus, analougsly to the other spell files just select spells having subspell=0 (Stata: keep if subspell==0) for a plain and easy episode structure - cohabitation spells are related to children in spChild via the identifier "child" - variable marking right censoring of cohabitation spell ts3332c has been adjusted (set to system missing for spells ending in the past) spPartner: - variables fpmod (episode mode), t733004 (living apart together, current partner), and t733005 (frequency of contact, current partner) were moved from pTarget to spPartner - variable ts31212_g2 ('Partner: highest educational achievement (CASMIN)') now correctly classifies observations 'other' eductional degree as 'not determinable' [-55] - variable ts31212_g2 ('Partner: highest educational achievement (CASMIN)' ) has been corrected, swapping contents of categories 7 [CASMIN 3a] and 8 [CASMIN 3b]; - variable ts31212_g3 ('Partner: highest educational achievement (years of education=f(CASMIN))') has been updated accordingly - variable ts31212_g1 ('Partner: highest educational achievement (ISCED)') now correctly classifies observations 'other' eductional degree as 'not determinable' [-55] - variable ts31226_g2 ('Partner: occupation (KldB 2010)') now adequately incorporates information about supervisory occupational tasks where needed - variable ts31226_g14 ('Partner: occupation (ISEI-08)') has been added - variable ts31226_g8: EGP class scheme adjusted due to errors in the derivation syntax (particularly the classes IVc and V) spFurtherEdu1: - variable marking right censoring of spell t271048 has been adjusted (set to system missing for spells ending in the past) Methods (generated file): - additional wave 1 & 2 rows for additional cases from ALWA - new variable ALWAlatecomer marking the new cases who come from the ALWA sample but did not participate in wave 2 - additional weights (prob_w3/weight_isced_w3/weight_isced_w3_std) for wave 3 - new variable tx80220 (participation status) for indicating participation, temporary dropouts, and final dropouts Basics (generated file): - variable 'Highest CASMIN' [tx28101] now correctly classifies observations with 'other' eductional degree as 'not determinable' [-55] - variable 'Highest ISCED' [tx28103] now correctly classifies observations with 'other' eductional degree as 'not determinable' [-55] - variable 'Mother: CASMIN' [t731301_g2] now correctly classifies observations with 'other' eductional degree as 'not determinable' [-55] - variable 'Father: CASMIN' [t731351_g2] now correctly classifies observations with 'other' eductional degree as 'not determinable' [-55] - variable 'Mother: CASMIN' [t731301_g2] has been corrected, swapping contents of categories 7 [CASMIN 3a] and 8 [CASMIN 3b]; variable 'Mother: Years of education = f(CASMIN)' [t731301_g3] has been updated accordingly - variable 'Father: CASMIN' [t731351_g2] has been corrected, swapping contents of categories 7 [CASMIN 3a] and 8 [CASMIN 3b]; variable 'Father: Years of education = f(CASMIN)' [t731351_g3] has been updated accordingly - variable 'Mother: ISCED' [t731301_g1] now correctly classifies observations with 'other' eductional degree as 'not determinable' [-55] - variable 'Father: ISCED' [t731351_g1] now correctly classifies observations with 'other' eductional degree as 'not determinable' [-55] - variable 'Mother: SIOPS' [t731403_g6] has been added - variable 'Mother: MPS' [t731403_g7] has been added - variable 'Mother: ISEI-08' [t731403_g14] has been added - variable 'Mother: BLK' [t731403_g9] has been added - variable 'Father: SIOPS' [t731453_g6] has been added - variable 'Father: MPS' [t731453_g7] has been added - variable 'Father: ISEI-08' [t731453_g14] has been added - variable 'Father: BLK' [t731453_g9] has been added - variable 'Occupation of first employment (SIOPS)' [tx29075] has been added - variable 'Occupation of first employment (MPS)' [tx29076] has been added - variable 'Occupation of first employment (ISEI-08)' [tx29077] has been added - variable 'Occupation of first employment (BLK)' [tx29078] has been added - variable 'Current occupation (SIOPS)' [tx29065] has been added - variable 'Current occupation (MPS)' [tx29066] has been added - variable 'Current occupation (ISEI-08)' [tx29067] has been added - variable 'Current occupation (BLK)' [tx29068] has been added - variable 'Age at migration to Germany' [tx29007] has been added - variable 'Born in Germany or abroad (reconstructed)' [t405000_g1] has been added Education (generated file): - variable 'Highest CASMIN' [tx28101] now correctly classifies observations with 'other' eductional degree as 'not determinable' [-55] - variable 'Highest ISCED' [tx28103] now correctly classifies observations with 'other' eductional degree as 'not determinable' [-55]