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2017 Fall Life History Mail Survey Historically Black College and University Data

The HRS 2017 Fall 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 December 2017 through June 2018. This data file contains multiple records (n=1284) for each respondent or proxy who filled out and returned a 2017 Fall LHMS questionnaire. The file is sorted on Household ID (HHID), Person number (PN) and ORDER (LH23_ORDER_17F).

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Latest Release October 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_17F contains the row designations of the table. The variable created post-data collection, (IF_HBCU_LHMS17F), is attached to each record to indicate whether the institution reported by the respondent in that row is a Historically Black College and University.