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| Variable Name | spouse_personid |
| Top Access Level | released |
| Label | Personid of spouse |
| Codebook | SIPP Synthetic Beta v6.02 |
| Concept | |
| Type | numeric |
Files
ssb_v6_0_2_syntheticK_M.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_v6_0_2_syntheticK_M.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, 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. In order
to strengthen confidentiality protection, however, spouse_personid in the SSB does
not link records across implicates or to the Gold Standard and Completed Data files,
i.e. within each synthetic implicate it is a random number that can only be used for
matching spouses within that implicate.
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