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An investigation of children’s consistency in reporting their parents’ occupations

This study adds two questions to the youth paper questionnaire (for 10-15 year olds) and to the young adults self-completion module used in the IP. These two questions ask youths about what their mother’s and father’s occupation is, which can then be converted to a SOC code as is done in the adult version of the survey when asking about occupation.

There was no random allocation to conditions in this study. All youth respondents (10-15 years old) that are given the paper youth questionnaire had these two questions added, all in the same location, while all young adults were asked in the self-completion module in the face-to-face surveys, or on the web. The following questions from the youth questionnaire are those added to the survey.

The variables used for this study are the following.

On the record k_youth_ip (youth questionnaire, 10-15 year olds):

ypmatsoc90, ypmatsoc90_cc, ypmatsoc00, ypmatsoc00_cc, ypmatsoc10, ypmatsoc10_cc, ypfatsoc90, ypfatsoc90_cc, ypfatsoc00, ypfatsoc00_cc, ypfatsoc10, ypfatsoc10_cc

On the record k_indresp_ip (young adults module, 16-21 year olds):

matocc90, matocc00, matocc10, fatocc90, fatocc00, fatocc10

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