General Social Survey cycle 15: Cycle 15: Family History (gssc15) - 2001

Abstract:

Cycle 15 of the General Social Survey (GSS) is the third cycle to
collect detailed information on family life in Canada. The previous GSS
cycles that collected family data were Cycles 5 and 10. Topics include
demographic characteristics such as age, sex, and marital status; family
origin of parents; brothers and sisters; marriages of respondent;
common-law unions of respondent; fertility and family intentions; values
and attitudes; education history; work history; main activity and other
characteristics.

The target population for Cycle 15 of the GSS is all persons 15 years of
age and older in Canada, excluding residents of the Yukon, Northwest
Territories, and Nunavut, and full-time residents of institutions.

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Note:

This product repeats the core content of the 1990 and 1995 General
Social Survey. This product is accompanied by the General Social Survey
cycle 15: family history (2001) - Public use microdata file
documentation and user's guide (catalogue no. 12M0015GPE).


 SAS received from Author Division may produce errors
 due to the fact value and format names used may be longer
 then 8 characters.



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SURVEY STRUCTURE FOR THE DLI COLLECTION
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File(s) Prefix

gss       :  General Social Survey
  c15     :  cycle 15.........Family History
    main	: Main File
    child	: Child File
    union	: Union File
     dat  :  Data File
     gid  :  Documentation and User's Guide
     que  :  Questionnaire
     rcl  :  Record Layout

File(s) Suffix (extension)

.pdf  :  Adobe Acrobat
.zip  :  WinZip compressed file(s)

.sas  :  SAS  code
.sps  :  SPSS code

.txt  :  Text file(s)

NOTE:  - file(s) with extension
         ..pdf, .zip are Binary and .sas, .sps, .txt are Ascii
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Directory Structure:  /dli/gss/cycle15-2001
                      /dli/gss/cycle15-2001/data
                      /dli/gss/cycle15-2001/doc

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DATA FILE(S):
DIRECTORY:   /dli/gss/cycle15-2001/data


description		filename		 type		size


compressed Main file	gssc15dat-main.zip         b        125,286,932


compressed Child file	gssc15dat-child.zip 	   b	      3,714,397


compressed Union file	gssc15dat-union.zip        b	       1470,222


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DOCUMENTATION:
DIRECTORY:  /dli/gss/cycle15-2001/doc

filename            		Format        Description

gssc15gid.pdf       		B	User's Guide
gssc15que.pdf         		B	Questionnaire

gssc15rcl-main.txt  		A  	Record Layout for Main File
gssc15rcl-child.txt  		A  	Record Layout for Child File
gssc15rcl-union.txt  		A  	Record Layout for Union File

gssc15-main.sas     		A  	SAS Code for Main File
gssc15-child.sas      		A  	SAS Code for Child File
gssc15-union.sas      		A  	SAS Code for Union File

gssc15-main.sps     		A  	SPSS Code for Main File
gssc15-child.sps      		A  	SPSS Code for Child File
gssc15-union.sps      		A  	SPSS Code for Union File


esgc15gid.pdf       		B	French User's Guide
esgc15que.pdf         		B	French Questionnaire

esgc15-main.sas     		A  	French SAS Code for Main File
esgc15-child.sas     		A  	French SAS Code for Child File
esgc15-union.sas     		A  	French SAS Code for Union File

esgc15-main.sps     		A  	French SAS Code for Main File
esgc15-child.sps    		A  	French SAS Code for Child File
esgc15-union.sps     		A  	French SAS Code for Union File