Donors and Recipients of Time and Money Transfers in "Other, Specify" Responses, 2020 HRS Core

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In the 2020 HRS COVID-19 module, respondents were asked to identify who outside their household gave them time and money help and to whom they provided time and money during the pandemic. Helpers or recipients who were not respondents’ children or household members were coded as “other, specify.” The dataset, released as four separate data files, translates these confidential open-ended responses into relationship categories recorded in a publicly releasable format. When combined with the 2020 HRS core public-use dataset, these new variables provide a full list of those who gave or received time and money help in response to pandemic-related hardships. Each file corresponds to one of the four combinations of help type (money or time) and direction (received or given). For each respondent who provided a valid "other, specify" response for a given help type and direction, the datasets include indicators identifying the relationship type(s) involved in the help exchange.

Authors

I-Fen Lin, Judith A. Selter, Janecca A. Chin, Emily E. Wiemers, and V. Joseph Hotz