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Mainstage Variable

lvag14

who living with at age 14

Datafiles

Index term

Derived variable note:

Who living with at age 14

See LVAG16, AGELH, YNLP14

Derived variable note:

Uses W_LVAG14, W_LGAG16 on data file W_INDRESP
Uses BW_LVAG14, BW_LGAG16 on data file BW_INDRESP/

Question asked in the latest wave:

familybackground_w15.lvag14

Question label:

Who living with at age 14

Question text:

Please look at this card and tell me the number that describes who you were living with when you were  aged 14?

Question universe:

if [(ff_ivlolw = 2|3|MIS) & ff_everint 1] // New entrant never interviewed, excluding rising 16 year olds
And if [LVAG16 = 2] // Did not live with both biological parents until 16

Question interviewer instructions:

STEPFATHER/STEPMOTHER INCLUDES COHABITING PARTNERS OF NATURAL PARENT

Further details:
For further details about this question, please see the questionnaires

Value labelValueAbsolute frequencyRelative frequency
inapplicable-83245398.79%
proxy-7740.23%
refusal-220.01%
Biological mother and father1210.06%
Adoptive mother and father260.02%
Mother and stepfather3950.29%
Father and stepmother4150.05%
Mother/no father figure51230.37%
Father/no mother figure6170.05%
In Local Authority care/foster home7120.04%
Other97310.09%
Total32849100.0%

Value labelValueAbsolute frequencyRelative frequency
inapplicable-83345694.32%
proxy-71340.38%
refusal-2100.03%
don't know-130.01%
Biological mother and father11220.34%
Adoptive mother and father2560.16%
Mother and stepfather34181.18%
Father and stepmother4800.23%
Mother/no father figure58142.29%
Father/no mother figure61130.32%
In Local Authority care/foster home7490.14%
Other972160.61%
Total35471100.0%

Value labelValueAbsolute frequencyRelative frequency
Only available for IEMB-114057789.79%
inapplicable-836178.0%
proxy-71950.43%
refusal-260.01%
don't know-150.01%
biological mother and father1560.12%
adoptive mother and father2100.02%
mother and stepfather3810.18%
father and stepmother4260.06%
mother/no father figure54330.96%
father/no mother figure6420.09%
in local authority care/foster home7150.03%
other971290.29%
Total45192100.0%

Value labelValueAbsolute frequencyRelative frequency
missing-910.0%
inapplicable-83641171.4%
proxy-732626.4%
refusal-290.02%
don't know-190.02%
biological mother and father17121.4%
adoptive mother and father23770.74%
mother and stepfather321474.21%
father and stepmother44920.96%
mother/no father figure5518410.17%
father/no mother figure68931.75%
in local authority care/foster home73060.6%
other9711912.34%
Total50994100.0%

Value labelValueAbsolute frequencyRelative frequency
missing-910102460.0%
inapplicable-85221931.01%
biological mother and father19360.56%
adoptive mother and father25020.3%
mother and stepfather328741.71%
father and stepmother46460.38%
mother/no father figure569274.11%
father/no mother figure611690.69%
in local authority care/foster home73860.23%
other9716941.01%
Total168377100.0%
MeanNumber MissingMinMaxStd DevN
14.661532431.097.029.2715134

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