The HRS 2017 Spring 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 2017 was June 2017 through December 2017. This data file contains multiple records (n=4736) for each respondent or proxy who filled out and returned a 2017 Spring LHMS questionnaire. The file is sorted on Household ID (HHID), Person number (PN) and ORDER (LH23_ORDER_17S).
Product Details
| N | 4736 |
|---|---|
| Product Type | Geographic Information |
| Latest Release | September 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 of the table listed on pages 20 and 21 of the questionnaire. The variable LH23_ORDER_17S contains the row designations of the table. The variable created post-data collection, (IF_HBCU_LHMS17S), is attached to each record to indicate whether the institution reported by the respondent in that row is a Historically Black College and University.