Entry:

Davis, James A., "The Parental Families of Americans in Birth Cohorts 1890-1955: A Categorical, Linear Equation Model Estimated from the NORC General Social Survey," GSS Social Change Report No. 12, Also in Social Indicators Research, 9 (December, 1981), 395-453.


Abstract:

Using five variables: father's education and occupation, number of siblings, size of residence, and mother's work status, a statistical linear model is analyzed to describe large-scale chance in American families.

GSS Years:

1972-1982

Other Data Sets:

Census 1972, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1980

GSS Codebook Variables referenced by document:

Variable Name

Variable Label

 
 
AGE

AGE OF RESPONDENT

PAEDUC

"HIGHEST YEAR SCHOOL COMPLETED

FAMILY16

LIVING WITH PARENTS WHEN 16 YRS OLD

EDUC

HIGHEST YEAR OF SCHOOL COMPLETED

MAWORK

MOTHERS EMPLOYMENT SINCE MARRIAGE

SIBS

NUMBER OF BROTHERS AND SISTERS

PAOCC16

FATHERS CENSUS OCCUPATION CODE (1970)

RES16

TYPE OF PLACE LIVED IN WHEN 16 YRS OLD