SECTION II FIVE-YEAR FAMILY TAPE CODE The following are the codes for all the family units. The variable numbers and tape locations appearing first pertain to the single-year family tapes. Those numbers in parentheses refer to the merged family data. (The order of these numbers is reversed for the 1969 variables.) The weighted distributions are based on the single-year tapes. Since not all the families interviewed in each of the first four years were reinterviewed in 1972 and some families split up, the distribution for the five-year merged tape may differ slightly. TAPE CODE FOR 1968 VARIABLES Worksheet 1 (Housing, Cars, and Payments) Variable Tape Number Location Description and Details -------- -------- ----------------------- 1 1-3 Study number (768) ------------------ 2 4-8 Sequence number --------------- (The last digit of this number is zero for all but 35 cases which were coded 1. These cases are related secondaries about to leave home, who were interviewed separately. Most data tapes omit the 35, so the last digit of this number will be = 0) 3 9-12 Family number ------------- (The first four digits of the sequence number, and kept as the link with later reinterviews, i.e., coded each year for any member of this family who is reinterviewed. Families in cross-section sample have numbers less than 3000. Those in supplementary low income sample have number 5000 or above) 4 13 Sub-family number ----------------- (The last digit of the sequence number. This will be 0 except for 35 related secondaries who will be eliminated from most data tapes) 5 14-18 House value ----------- 00000 Inap., not a home owner 99999 $99,999 or more (There are no missing data; they were assigned values) 6 19-22 Property taxes -------------- (Estimated from house value using data from previous surveys) and region, and central city or suburbs. Rate of taxation on house value was assigned on the basis of data from previous surveys. The assigned tax rates are shown in the table below 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------- PROPERTY TAXES/HOUSE VALUE Maine, Vermont, Mass., Distance from Nearest Rhode Island, N.H., City of 50,000 or More Connecticut, New England (Question N11) (See Interviewer Label) Other ---------------------- ------------------------ ----- 0 - 5 .025 .020 5 - 49 .020 .015 50 miles or more .015 .010 Source: E.S. Maynes and J.N. Morgan, "The Effective Role of Real Estate Taxation," R.E. Stat. XXXIX (Feb. 1957), 14-22. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 23 Accuracy of house value and property taxes ------------------------------------------ 0. No assignments 1. Minor assignments 2. Major assignments (probable errors more than $300 or 10%) 3. Complex property, requiring allocation of property taxes, etc. between dwelling and other purposes of building. 8 24-27 Annual mortgage payments ------------------------ 0000. Inap., does not have mortgage payments 9999. $9,999 or more 9 28 Accuracy of mortgage payments ----------------------------- (See code for Variable 7) 10 29-32 Annual rent paid ---------------- 0000. Inap., does not pay rent 9999. $9,999 or more 11 33 Accuracy of rent payments ------------------------- 0. No assignments 1. Minor assignments 2. Major assignments (probable errors more than $300 or 10% of the total) 12 34-37 Annual rent value of free housing (for those who neither own nor rent) -------------------------------------------- 0000. Inap. 13 38 Accuracy of annual rent value of free housing --------------------------------------------- (See VII code) 14 39-41 Annual utilities paid --------------------- 000. None 999. $10,000 or more 2 15 42 Accuracy of annual utilities ---------------------------- (See VII code) 16 43-46 Value of Additions and repairs done by R and family -------------------------------------------- 0000. Did none self 9999. $9,999 or more 17 47 Accuracy of V16 --------------- 0. No assignments 1. Minor assignments 2. Major assignments 4. Work done free of charge by someone outside the family unit 18 48-51 Annual payments on previous additions and repairs (Debt) ----------------------------------------- 0000. No payments 9999. $9,999 or more 19 52 Accuracy of V18 --------------- (See V11 code) 20 53-56 Annual cost of car insurance ---------------------------- 0000. No insurance (or no car) 9999. $9,999 or more 21 57 Accuracy of V20 --------------- (See V11 code) 22 58-61 Annual payments on car debts ---------------------------- 0000. No car payments 9999. $9,999 or more 23 62 Accuracy of V22 --------------- (See V11 code) 24 63-65 Amount saved doing own car repairs ---------------------------------- 0000. Nothing (or did no repairs) 9999. $9,999 or more 25 66 Accuracy of V24 --------------- (See V17 code) 3 26 67-69 Hours spent repairing car ------------------------- 000. None 999. 999 or more 27 70 Accuracy of V26 --------------- (See V11 code) 28 71-74 Annual payments on other debts ------------------------------ 0000. No such payments 9999. $9,999 or more 29 75 Accuracy of V28 --------------- (See V11 code) Worksheet 2 (Food Expenditures and Food Needs) 30 76 Family size ----------- 9. Nine or more 31 77-80 Annual food standard (Needs) ---------------------------- This is based on the USDA Low Cost plan estimates of the weekly food costs, according to the table below reproduced from Family Economics Review March, 1967), summed for the family converted to annual (times 52), and adjusted for economies of scale by USDA rules as follows: Single person - add 20% Two persons - add 10% Three persons - add 5% Four persons - no change Five persons - deduct 5% Six or more persons - deduct 10% ------------------------------------------------------------------- TABLE B. INDIVIDUAL FOOD STANDARD (LOW COST) Age Male Female --- ---- ------ Under 3 3.90 3.90 4 - 6 4.60 4.60 7 - 9 5.50 5.50 10 - 12 6.40 6.30 13 - 15 7.40 6.90 16 - 20 8.70 7.20 21 - 35 7.50 6.50 35 - 55 6.90 6.30 55 + 6.30 5.40 (This same standard will be used in subsequent years, leaving adjustments for inflation, etc. to users) ------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 32 81-85 Annual Need Standard -------------------- This is the Orshansky-type poverty threshold, based on the annual food needs standard above, with an additional adjustment for diseconomies of small households (in rent, etc.) and an adjustment for farmers: Basically it is: 4.89 times the food needs for single persons 3.7 times the food needs for two person units 3.0 times the food needs for all other units 33 86-88 Annual expenditures on alcoholic beverages ------------------------------------------ 000. None 999. $999 or more 34 89 Accuracy of V33 --------------- (See V11 code) 35 90-92 Annual expenditure on cigarettes -------------------------------- 000. None 999. $999 or more 36 93 Accuracy of V35 --------------- (See V11 code) 37 94-97 Annual food expenditures, (corrected to exclude alcohol and cigarettes) --------------------------------------- 0000. None 9999. $9,999 or more 38 98 Accuracy of V37 --------------- (See V11 code) 39 99-101 Saved growing own food (in 1967) -------------------------------- 000. None 999. $999 or more 40 102 Accuracy of V39 --------------- (See V11 code) 41 103-105 Saved sewing own clothes ------------------------ 000. None 999. $999 or more 5 42 106 Accuracy of V41 --------------- (See V11 code) 43 107-109 Value of free food received on job (annual) ------------------------------------------- 000. None 999. $999 or more 44 110 Accuracy of V43 --------------- (See V11 code) 45 111-113 Saved by using food stamps (non-money income subsidy) -------------------------------------------- 000. None 999. $999 or more 46 114 Accuracy of V45 --------------- (see V11 code) Worksheet 3 (Time Budgets) 47 15-118 Head's annual hours working for money ------------------------------------- 0000. None 9999. 9999 or more 48 119 Accuracy of V47 --------------- (See V11 code) 49 23 Head's non-leisure from unemployment (Annual hours) (Days unemployed times 8) -------------------------------------------- 0000. None 9999. 9999 or more 50 124 Accuracy of V49 --------------- (See V11 code) 51 125-128 Head's non-leisure from illness (Annual hours) ---------------------------------------------- (Days ill times 16 for the first 8 weeks and times 8 for time thereafter) 0000. None 9999. 9999 or more 52 12 Accuracy of V51 --------------- (See V11 code) 6 53 130-133 Wife's annual hours working for money ------------------------------------- 0000. None or Inap. 9999. 9999 or more 54 134 Accuracy of V53 --------------- (See V11 code) 55 35-138 Hours of purchased child care (if children under 12 and adults all work) (Based on reported cost of child care, assuming $1 per hour) ------------------------------------------ 0000. None or Inap. 56 139 Accuracy of V55 --------------- (See V11 code) 57 140-143 Free help with housework, baby sitting, etc. from outside dwelling. (Based on amount saved by such free help, assuming $1 per hour) --------------------------------------------- 58 144 Accuracy of V57 --------------- (See V11 code) 59 145-148 Hours spent on housework by Head and Wife. (Based on estimates from Productive Americans (see below) after deducting purchased child care hours (V55) and free help (V57)) --------------------------------------------- Single Man Housework Hours ---------- --------------- No one under 18 400 Youngest 6 - 18 600 If child under 6, or more than 4 in FU Single Woman ------------ Alone 1000 With another adult 1300 One or two children youngest 4 or older