Demographics - Subject Baseline

This measure appears in the following time-points: Baseline.

Related Construct

Demographics

Description of Measure

This section contains items which are descriptive characteristics of the subject. Areas covered include: family structure, ethnicity, subject age, gender, address and household composition, history of running away and site location. A census tract number based on 2000 Census data is also available for the subject's self-reported home address at the time of the baseline interview.

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

Family structure [s0famstr]; indicates the combination of parental figures living with the subject
Biological parents in the household [s0nbphom]; count of biological parents living with the subject
Number of adults in the household based on the relationship code of each person [s0adults]
Ethnicity [s0ethcty]; subject's self-reported ethnicity based on items dem21 and dem24. Six ethnic groups result: white, black, Asian, Native American, Hispanic, Other
Recoded ethnicity [s0ethn_r]; self-reported ethnicity collapsed into 4 groups: white, black, hispanic and other. This collapse was done because of low frequencies in the Asian, Native American and Other group
Subject's age at the time of the interview (Two age variables are available: [s0age]; interview date minus the subject's DOB truncated to a whole number and [s0ctage]; interview date minus the subject's DOB as a continuous variable)
Site [s0site]; 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 individual items are also available:

Ethnicity

Country of birth [s0dem19]
Country of birth (specified if "other" is chosen in s0dem19) [s0dem20]

Gender [S0SGend]
Descriptive information regarding the subject's current home address

Census tract number for subject home address [S0censustract]
This address considered public housing [S0rel113]
How far to nearest public housing (number) [S0Number]
How far to nearest public housing (blocks or miles - references S0Number) [S0Units]

Household composition information

Total number of people living in the subject's household [S0rel117]
Biological father in the household [S0BIODAD]
Biological mother in the household [S0BIOMOM]
Biological sister in the household [S0BIOSIS]
Biological brother in the household [S0BIOBRO]
Biological grandmother in the household [S0GRANDMOM]
Biological grandfather in the household [S0GRANDDAD]
Step father in the household [S0STEPDAD]
Step mother in the household [S0STEPMOM]
Step sister in the household [S0STEPSIS]
Step brother in the household [S0STEPBRO]
Adoptive father in the household [S0ADOPTDAD]
Adoptive mother in the household [S0ADOPTMOM]
Adoptive sister in the household [S0ADOPTSIS]
Adoptive brother the household [S0ADOPTBRO]
Wife in the household [S0WIFE]
Husband in the household [S0HUSBAND]
Son in the household [S0SON]
Daughter in the household [S0DAUGHTER]
Aunt in the household [S0AUNT]
Uncle in the household [S0UNCLE]
Female cousin in the household [S0GIRLCUZ]
Male cousin in the household [S0BOYCUZ]
Nephew in the household [S0NEPHEW]
Niece in the household [S0NIECE]
Live-in boyfriend/girlfriend in the household [S0LIVEIN]
Female friend in the household [S0FEMFRND]
Male friend in the household [S0MALEFRND]
Boyfriend in the household [S0BOYFRND]
Girlfriend in the household [S0GIRLFRND]
Male roommate in the household [S0MALEROOM]
Female roommate in the household [S0FEMROOM]
Professional relationship in the household [S0PROF]
Foster mother in the household [S0FOSTMOM]
Foster father in the household [S0FOSTDAD]
Foster brother in the household [S0FOSTBRO]
Foster sister in the household [S0FOSTSIS]
Other Relative in the household [S0OTHERREL]
Other (not biologically related) in the household [S0OTHER]

History of running away

Ever run away from where you were living [s0rel149]
Number of times ran away [s0rel150]
Age first time ran away [s0rel151]

Data Issues

There is one subject included in the study at the baseline interview who was 19 years of age (5748). The date of birth for this subject is correct.
Census tract information is unavailable for 27 cases. The self-reported home address for 19 cases could not be geo-coded; the remaining eight cases were not coded because they were not PA or AZ residents at the time of the interview.

References

Questions were developed by the Pathways Study investigators.