The NHES:1999 Data File User's Manual, Volume II-Parent Interview Data File, provides documentation and guidance for users of the public release data file for the Parent Interview of the 1999 National Household Education Survey (NHES:1999). This volume contains a description of the data file and a discussion of data considerations and anomalies. Included as appendixes are the public file layout, SAS code for creating derived variables, crosswalks of items asked in the NHES:1999 Parent Interview and previous NHES administrations, the codebook for the Parent Interview public data file, and directions and code for linking data files. Volume II is meant to be read in conjunction with the NHES:1999 Data File User's Manual, Volume I. More information about the purpose of the study, the sample design, the other survey components, the data collection instruments, and data collection and data processing procedures is contained in the NHES:1999 Data File User's Manual, Volume I. Information about the Youth Interview public data file and the Adult Education Interview public data file can be found in Volumes III and IV of the manual, respectively.
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