Author: Zachary Neal & Jennifer Watling Neal, Michigan State University

# Childfree Data Codebooks

#### Zachary Neal & Jennifer Watling Neal, Michigan State University

# Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Codebooks
   1. Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)
   2. National Survey of Family Growth
   3. State of the State Survey

# Introduction

## Welcome

Thank you for your interest in the childfree package! This vignette contains codebooks for dataframes created by the package’s functions from publicly-accessible data. The Introduction to Childfree vignette provides a more general introduction.

The `childfree` package can be cited as:

Neal, Z. P. and Neal, J. W. (2024). childfree: An R package to access and harmonize childfree demographic data. Comprehensive R Archive Network. https://cran.r-project.org/package=childfree

For additional resources on the childfree package, please see https://thechildfree.org.

If you have questions about the childfree package or would like a childfree package hex sticker, please contact the maintainer Zachary Neal by email (zpneal@msu.edu). Please report bugs in the backbone package at https://github.com/zpneal/childfree/issues.

## Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)

This table summarizes the variables that are contained in dataframes generated from Demographic and Health Surveys data using `dhs()`. Female respondents’ variables begin with `v`, while male respondents’ variables begin with `mv`.

Variable | Source | Format | Coding ______________________________
--- | --- | --- | ---
`cf_want` | `(m)v201` `(m)v602` | Binary | 0 = Not childfree 1 = Childfree
`cf_ideal` | `(m)v201` `(m)v613` | Binary | 0 = Not childfree 1 = Childfree
`famstat` | `(m)v201` `(m)v602` `(m)v613` | Categorical | 1 = Parent-Unclassified 2 = Parent-Fulfilled 3 = Parent-Unfulfilled 4 = Parent-Relunctant 5 = Parent-Ambivalent 6 = Not yet parent 9 = Childless-Biological 10 = Ambivalent non-parent 11 = Undecided 12 = Childfree
`sex` | — | Categorical | 1 = Female 2 = Male
`age` | `(m)v012` | Numeric | In years
`education` | `(m)v133` | Numeric | In years
`partnered` | `(m)v502` | Categorical | 1 = Single, never partnered 2 = Currently partnered 3 = Formerly partnered
`residence` | `(m)v102` | Ordinal | 1 = Rural 4 = Urban
`employed` | `(m)v714` | Binary | 0 = Not employed 1 = Employed
`religion` | `(m)v130` | Categorical | 1 = None, 2 = Catholic / Orthodox 3 = Muslim 4 = Jewish 5 = Protestant / Christian 6 = Other 7 = Buddhist 8 = Hindu
`id` | `(m)caseid` | string |
`country` | `(m)v000` | string |
`weight` | `(m)v005` | numeric |
`cluster` | `(m)v021` | numeric |
`strata` | `(m)v023` | numeric |
`file` | user | string |
`survey` | “DHS” | string |
`wave` | `(m)v000` | numeric |
`year` | `(m)v007` | numeric |
`month` | `(m)v006` | ordinal |

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## National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG)

This table summarizes the variables that are contained in dataframes generated from National Survey of Family Growth data using `nsfg()`. Variables noted with (F) or (M) are used for female and male respondents, respectively.

Variable | Source | Format | Coding ______________________________
--- | --- | --- | ---
`cf_want` | `parity` (F) `otherkid` (F) `seekadpt` (F) `anykids` (M) `otachil` (M) `rwant` | Binary | 0 = Not childfree 1 = Childfree
`famstat` | `parity` (F) `otherkid` (F) `seekadpt` (F) `anykids` (M) `otachil` (M) `rwant` `rstrstat` `pstrstat` `intent` | Categorical | 1 = Parent-Unclassified 3 = Parent-Unfulfilled 5 = Parent-Ambivalent 6 = Not yet parent 8 = Childless - Social 9 = Childless - Biological 10 = Ambivalent non-parent 11 = Undecided 12 = Childfree
`sex` | — | Categorical | 1 = Female 2 = Male
`lgbt` | `orient` | Binary | 1 = Straight 2 = Gay/Lesbian 3 = Bisexual 4 = Something else
`hispanic` | `hispanic` | Binary | 0 = Not hispanic 1 = Hispanic
`race` | `rscrrace` | Categorical | 1 = White 2 = Black 3 = Hawaiian 4 = Asian 5 = American Indian 6 = Other
`age` | `ager` | Numeric | In years
`education` | `hieduc` | Ordinal | 2 = Did not graduate high school 3 = High School graduate 4 = Some college 5 = College graduate 7 = Graduate degree
`partnered` | `rmarital` | Categorical | 1 = Single, never partnered 2 = Currently partnered 3 = Formerly partnered
`residence` | `metro` | Ordinal | 1 = Rural 3 = Suburb 4 = Urban
`employed` | `rwrkst` | Binary | 0 = Not employed 1 = Employed
`inschool` | `goschol` | Binary | 0 = Not in school 1 = In school
`health` | `genhealt` | Ordinal | 1 = Poor 2 = Fair 3 = Good 4 = Very Good 5 = Excellent
`momeduc` | `educmom` | Ordinal | 1 = Less than high school 2 = High school 3 = Some college 4 = BA or higher
`nuclear` | `intctfam` | Binary | 0 = Not nuclear 1 = Both biological/adopted parents present from birth-18
`mom` | `womrasdu` | Categorical | 1 = Raised by biological mother 2 = Raised by other woman 3 = No mother figure
`dad` | `manrasdu` | Categorical | 1 = Raised by biological father 2 = Raised by other man 3 = No father figure
`maltreatment` | `emotabuse` `physabuse` `revemotneg` `revphysneg` `witnessipv` | Binary | 0 = Rarely or never 1 = Sometimes experienced physical/emotional abuse/neglect or witnessed violence in home
`dysfunction` | `livdrugs` `livdepress` `sepjail` | Binary | 0 = No, 1 = Parent had substance abuse, mental health, or criminal justice issues
`religion` | `religion` | Categorical | 1 = None 2 = Catholic / Orthodox 5 = Protestant / Christian 6 = Other
`bother` | `chbother` | Ordinal | 1 = Not at all 2 = A little 3 = Some 4 = A great deal
`id` | `caseid` | string |
`country` | “United States” | string |
`weight` | `wgt2022_2023` `wgt2017_2019` `wgt2015_2019` `wtg2013_2015` `wtg2011_2013` `WGTQ1Q16` `finalwgt` | numeric |
`cluster` | `secu` | numeric |
`stratum` | `sest` | numeric |
`file` | user | string |
`survey` | “NSFG” | string |
`wave` | user | string |
`year` | `cmintvw` | numeric |
`month` | `cmintvw` | ordinal |

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## State of the State Survey (SOSS)

This table summarizes the variables that are contained in dataframes generated from State of the State Survey data using `soss()`.

Variable | Source | Format | Coding ______________________________
--- | --- | --- | ---
`cf_want` | `neal1` `neal2` `neal3` | Binary | 0 = Not childfree 1 = Childfree
`famstat` | `neal1` `neal2` `neal3` | Categorical | 1 = Parent-Unclassified 6 = Not yet parent 7 = Childless - Unclassified 10 = Ambivalent non-parent 11 = Undecided 12 = Childfree
`sex` | `cd1` | Categorical | 1 = Female 2 = Male 3 = Other
`lgbt` | `neal11` (wave 84 only) | Binary | 0 = Not LGBT 1 = LGBT
`hispanic` | `cd5a` | Binary | 0 = Not hispanic 1 = Hispanic
`race` | `cd4_1` `cd4_2` `cd4_3` `cd4_4` `cd4_5` `cd4_6` | Categorical | 1 = White 2 = Black 3 = Hawaiian 4 = Asian 5 = American Indian 6 = Other 7 = Multiracial
`age` | `cd2` | Numeric | In years
`education` | `cd3` | Ordinal | 1 = No education 2 = Did not graduate high school 3 = High School graduate 4 = Some college 5 = College graduate 6 = Some post-graduate 7 = Graduate degree
`partnered` | `cd8` | Categorical | 1 = Single, never partnered 2 = Currently partnered 3 = Formerly partnered
`residence` | `x1` | Ordinal | 1 = Rural 2 = Town 3 = Suburb 4 = Urban
`employed` | `cd15` | Binary | 0 = Not employed 1 = Employed
`inschool` | `cd15` | Binary | 0 = Not in school 1 = In school
`ideology` | `ideology` | Ordinal | 1 = Very conservative 2 = Somewhat conservative 3 = Closer to the conservative side 4 = In the middle 5 = Closer to the liberal side 6 = Somewhat liberal 7 = Very liberal
`religion` | `cd6` | Categorical | 1 = None 2 = Catholic / Orthodox 3 = Muslim 4 = Jewish 5 = Protestant / Christian 6 = Other
`id` | `caseid` | string |
`country` | “United States” | string |
`weight` | `weight` | numeric |
`file` | user | string |
`survey` | “SOSS” | string |
`wave` | user | string |
`year` | documentation | numeric |
`month` | documentation | ordinal |

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