The HRS 2015 Life History Mail Survey (LHMS) contains questions about residential history, education history, and other important childhood and family events. The LHMS is part of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), which is funded under a cooperative agreement between the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan.
The field period for the LHMS 2015 was December 2015 through summer 2016. This data file contains multiple records (n=7554) for each respondent or proxy who filled out and returned a 2015 LHMS questionnaire. The file is sorted on Household ID (HHID), Person number (PN) and ORDER (LH23_ORDER_15).
Product Details
| N | 7554 |
|---|---|
| Product Type | Geographic Information |
| Latest Release | August 2024 (v1.0) |
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This a long file which contains multiple records per respondent. The variables correspond to a subset of variables the table listed on pages 16 and 17 of the questionnaire. The variable LH23_ORDER_15 contains the row designations of the table. The variable created post-data collection, (IF_HBCU_LHMS15), is attached to each record to indicate whether the institution reported by the respondent in that row is a Historically Black College and University.