Demographics - Subject Follow-up

This measure appears in the following time-points: Follow06, Follow12, Follow18, Follow24, Follow30, Follow36, Follow48, Follow60, Follow72, Follow84.

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Related Construct

Demographics

Description of Measure

This section contains items which are descriptive characteristics of the subject. Areas covered include: subject age, gender, site location as well as information regarding the death of a biological parent or primary caregiver during the recall period. This section also includes information regarding military services and voting.

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

Ethnicity (from baseline) [S#BL_ETH]
Ethnicity - recoded [S#ETHN_R]; recoded into 4 categories - White, Black, Hispanic, Other
Subject's age as of the interview date. Two age variables are available: [S#AGE]; interview date minus the subject's DOB truncated to a whole number and [S#CTAGE]; interview date minus the subject's DOB as a continuous variable.
Site [S#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 individual items are also available:

Subject gender [S#SGEND]
Active military training/service [S#JOBQ_MIL01]
Attempted to enlist in military but unable [S#JOBQ_MIL02]
Registered to vote [S#JOBQ_VOT01]
Voted in any election [S#JOBQ_VOT02]
Whether either biological parent passed away in the recall period [S#Demo_ParDth]
Whether a primary caregiver passed away in the recall period [S#Demo_PMondtn]

Descriptive information regarding household composition, history of running away and items relating to the subject's home address can be found in the "Demographics" measure at Baseline, but for all follow-ups are located in the Living Calendar.

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.
All Military Organization and Voting questions were added to the interview in version 01.16 and were only asked if the subject was at least age 18 at the time of the interview. Data for these variables will be available beginning with the follow24 timepoint.
Some cases are missing data for this measure as a result of a bug in the programming code. Cases with this issue are noted with a missing value code of -700.

References

Questions were developed by the Pathways Study investigators.