Readme File for Country Year

README FILE FOR CANADA 1992

(World 5.5 – Release 2)

December 16th, 2004

CONTENTS:

Technical description of the survey

Information on the original files

Time-use variables

Variable-specific information

TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE SURVEY

See also:

INFORMATION ON THE ORIGINAL FILES

The original data was downloaded from LANDRU Canada 1986 GSS (episode file, summary file, and main file). CAN92ORIG.sav was renamed from downloaded LANDRU files and it contains the demographic and aggregate time use data.

TIME-USE VARIABLES

Activity Variable Documentation for Canada, 1992

Notes:

DUR340 (adult medical/dental care) was assumed to mean adult medical/dental care for self given that it was grouped with other personal care variables. It was therefore coded as AV14.

DUR023 (unpaid work in business/farm) was coded as AV3. Given that it implies work toward a business, but not paid work, it was not coded as AV8 (an "odd job") nor AV1 (work in the "main" paid job).

VARIABLE-SPECIFIC INFORMATION

DAY

The cases where the day of the week information was missing in the original file were selected out because of missing time use information.

AGE2

AGE2 was transformed into a continuous variable on the basis of the original 5-year age group coding. It is therefore a less accurate estimate of age than those surveys with a continuous age variable.There was a substantial number of missing cases (N=819) in the original variable DVAGEGR; however, these do not appear in World 5.5 due to their diaries being incomplete.

HHLDSIZE

HHLDSIZE=7 corresponds to 7 or more people in the household. The 8.3% of missing cases for the original variable DVHHSCAP do not appear in the World 5.5 datasets because their time use diaries are incomplete.

NCHILD

Because NCHILD was created using original variables that have ‘two or more’ and ‘three or more’ categories, NCHILD values of 3 and above may represent at least that number and not exactly that number of children.

These variables only correspond to the respondents’ children. (In Canada 1998, information on respondent’s children and the household’s children is available.) The original variables used to create NCHILD account only for the respondents’ children. However, NCHILD should account for all children under 18 in the household. Thus, respondents themselves who are under 18 years old and living with one or two parents are coded as NCHILD = 1.It is important to be aware that this mayinflate NCHILD=1, due to the fact that it is not possible to discern whether these respondents are the onlychildren in the household.

AGEKID

The 8.3% of missing cases for DVAGRYC is common to most variables in the original Canada 1992 dataset. A majority of these cases are eliminated in the creation of World 5.5 given that their time use diaries are not complete. Take note that DVAGEYC corresponds to the respondents’children. However, AGEKID should account for all children under 18 in the household.Thus, respondents themselves who are 15-17 years old, living with one or two parents, and with AGEKID = -7 are coded as AGEKID = 3.

UNEMP

Canada 1992 does not have a category formally labeled ‘unemployed’. We used the category ‘looking for work’.

STUDENT

The missing cases for STUDENT may be attributed to the cases coded “not stated” in ACT7DAYS.

RETIRED

The missing cases for RETIRED may be attributed to the cases coded “not stated” in ACT7DAYS.

WORKHRS

In the original variables, 8.3% of cases have missing values on DVHRWK. Most of these cases do not appear in World 5.5 because their diary was incomplete.

INCORIG

The value labels for INCORIG are as follows:

1'no income'

2 'less than $5,000'

3 '$5,000 to $9,999'

4 '$10,000 to $14,999'

5 '$15,000 to $19,999'

6 '$20,000 to $29,999'

7 '$30,000 to $39,999'

8 '$40,000 to $49,999'

9 '$50,000 to $59,999'

10 '$60,000 to $79,999'

11 '$80,000 or more'

The original values 98 ‘Do not know’ and 99 ‘Not-stated’ were recoded to equal -8 ‘Non-response’. The original value ‘1’ is considered as zero income when computing the Income variable.

EDUCA

The original variable ‘DVEDUC’ was used to create EDUCA. The value labels for EDUCA are as follows:

1'Doctorate, masters'

2 'Degree in medicine'

3 'Bachelor degree'

4 'Community college'

5 'Trade & technical degree'

6 'Some university'

7 'Some community college'

8 'Some trade & technical'

9 'Other education'

10 'Secondary school educat'

11 'Some secondary school'

12 'Elementary school'

13 'No schooling'

The original value 99 ‘Not stated’ has been recoded to equal -8 ‘Non-response’.

EDTRY

DVEDUC=10 was assumed to mean having completed high school education. This is in contrast to DVEDUC=11, which was coded as EDTRY=1. For DVEDUC=8, we assumed that the respondent has not attended university level education.

• 11 'Some secondary school'
• 12 'Elementary school'
• 13 'No schooling'

• *8 'Some trade & technical'
• 9 'Other education'
• 10 'Secondary school educat'

• 1'Doctorate, masters'
• 2 'Degree in medicine'
• 3 'Bachelor degree'
• 4 'Community college'
• 5 'Trade & technical degree'
• 6 'Some university'
• 7 'Some community college'