Demographics - Collateral Follow-up

This measure appears in the following time-points: Collat12, Collat24, Collat36.

Related Construct

Demographics

Description of Measure

This section contains a series of items which are descriptive characteristics of both the subject as well as the collateral reporter. Areas covering the collateral reporter include: ethnicity, gender, relationship to the subject, amount of contact they have with the subject and whether they have lived with the subject in the past year. Areas covering the subject include: whether the subject has children and history of running away.

Generally, items included in this section of the codebook are left as individual items. However, there are several computed variables based on these items.

Collateral ethnicity [c#ethcty]; collateral's self-reported ethnicity based on items C#CRace and C#CHisp. Six ethnic groups result: white, black, Asian, Native American, Hispanic, Other.
Recoded collateral ethnicity [c#ethn_r]; self-reported ethnicity collapsed into four groups: white, black, hispanic and other. This collapse was done because of low frequencies in the Asian, Native American and Other group.
Site [c#site]; represents the location of the subject - Philadelphia (site = 1) or Phoenix (site = 2). The variable is computed based on the study ID. Study IDs which are less than 49,999 represent subjects from Philadelphia while study ID's of 50,000 or greater represent subjects from Phoenix.

The following items relating to the collateral reporter are also available for this measure:

Collateral gender [C#CGend]
Relationship to the subject [C#ColRel]
Last time in contact with subject [C#Clast]
Context for relationship with subject

School [C#CSit_School]
Church or religious activities [C#CSit_Church]
Organized activities (e.g., clubs) [C#CSit_Clubs]
Informal socializing (parties, fellow gang member, talking on phone, dating, neighborhood) [C#CSit_Inform]
In the same institution/facility [C#CSit_Inst]
In the same treatment or juvenile justice program in the community [C#CSit_Tx]
Other [C#CSit_Other]

Frequency of contact with subject over the past year [C#CFreq]
How well the collateral feels they know the subject [C#CHWell]
How long (in days) the collateral has known the subject [C#CHLong_NDay]
Has the collateral lived with the subject over the past year [C#ColRes]

The following items relating to the subject based on the collateral report are available for this measure:

Whether the subject has any children [C#Rel75a]
Financial role subject plays in their child's life [C#PCLc86]
Whether the subject ran away from home in the past year [C#RNWY]
Number of times subject ran away in the past year [C#RNHMT]

Data Issues

Due to data issues with both the collateral date of birth and the interview start date, collateral age cannot be computed for the collateral baseline or follow-up time-points.

References

Questions were developed by the Pathways Study investigators.