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| Variable Name | spouse_personid |
| Top Access Level | released |
| Label | Personid of spouse |
| Codebook | SIPP Synthetic Beta v5.1 |
| Concept | |
| Type | numeric |
Files
ssb_v5_1_synthetic1_1.sas7bdat
http://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/sipp/methodology/sipp-synthetic-beta-data-product.html
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SAS
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ssb_v5_1_synthetic1_1.dta
http://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/sipp/methodology/sipp-synthetic-beta-data-product.html
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Stata
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Full Description
Personid of linked spouse. Across the Gold Standard and Completed Data files, spouse_personid
uniquely identifies spouses of SIPP respondents. In the SSB, spouse_personid uniquely
identifies records within a particular implicate. In order to strengthen confidentiality
protection, spouse_personid in the SSB does not link records across implicates or
to the Gold Standard and Completed Data files.
Linked spouse is defined as the first person to whom the SIPP respondent was married
during the time period covered by the SIPP panel. Individuals could enter the panel
already married and then each would be linked to the other. Individuals could also
get married during the course of the panel. If this was the first observed marriage
for each member of the couple, they were linked together. Individuals could also get
divorced during the course of the panel and then remarry. In many cases, this later
marriage caused a new individual to join the panel. This new SIPP respondent would
only be linked to his or her spouse if the spouse (and original SIPP sample member)
had not already been observed married to someone else. If the original SIPP sample
member had been previously linked by marriage to another SIPP sample member, this
original link was maintained in spouse_personid. However the marital history reflects
the ending of this marriage and the occurrence of the next marriage for the original
SIPP sample member. Likewise, the new SIPP sample member who joins through marriage
will have that marriage date recorded in his or her marital history but will have
a blank spouse_personid.
In summary, this variable captures only one marriage partner and does not provide
a history of marriage partners even if this history is (partially) observed in the
SIPP.
The link between SIPP respondents and their spouses has not been perturbed in any
way in the SSB. The same individuals will be linked as married partners in the Gold
Standard, the Completed Data, and the SSB.
Value Ranges
Value Range
Range: [ 1167 , 444444 ]
Groups
