TABLE OF CONTENTS  
TABLE OF CONTENTS........................................................... III  
DATA DESCRIPTION AND USAGE.................................................... 1  
1. OVERVIEW................................................................... 1  
1B. THE SAMPLE INTERVIEWED IN 2022............................................... 1  
1C. 2022 QUESTIONNAIRE SECTIONS ................................................. 2  
1D. LEVELS OF FILES............................................................ 3  
1D1. Household Level Files ................................................ 3  
1D2. Respondent Level Files ............................................... 3  
1D3. Sibling Level File ................................................... 3  
1D4. Household Member and Child Level Files ............................... 4  
1D5. Helper Level File .................................................... 4  
1D6. Transfer-to-Child-Level File ......................................... 4  
1D7. Transfer-from-Child-Level-File ....................................... 4  
1D8. Pension Level Files .................................................. 4  
1D9. Jobs level files ..................................................... 4  
2. FILE NAMING CONVENTIONS.................................................... 4  
3. DATA FILES................................................................. 5  
3A. CONSTRUCTION OF THE INTERVIEWER OBSERVATION FILES (IO_R AND IO_H). ................ 6  
4. IDENTIFICATION VARIABLES................................................... 6  
4A. PRIMARY IDENTIFICATION VARIABLES.............................................. 7  
4A1. HHID – Household Identification Number ............................... 7  
4A2. SSUBHH – 2022 Sub-household Identifier ............................... 7  
4A3. PN – Person Number ................................................... 7  
4A4. OPN – Other Person Number. ........................................... 7  
4B. PRIMARY IDENTIFICATION VARIABLES FOR DATASETS AT EACH OF THE NINE LEVELS ............. 7  
4C. SECONDARY IDENTIFICATION VARIABLES ............................................ 8  
4D. DATASETS INCLUDING SSUBHH AND OPN AS PRIMARY IDENTIFIERS......................... 9  
5. DISTRIBUTION FILES AND DIRECTORY STRUCTURE................................. 9  
5A. DISTRIBUTION FILES ......................................................... 9  
5B. DIRECTORY STRUCTURE ........................................................ 9  
6. PROGRAM STATEMENTS........................................................ 10  
6A. USING THE FILES WITH SAS................................................... 10  
6B. USING THE FILES WITH SPSS.................................................. 10  
6C. USING THE FILES WITH STATA.................................................. 10  
7. LOADING HRS DATA PRODUCTS IN A NON-WINDOWS ENVIRONMENT.................... 11  
7A. WORKING IN AN OS X ENVIRONMENT .............................................. 11  
7A1. OS X: SPSS .......................................................... 11  
7A2. OS X: Stata ......................................................... 11  
7B. WORKING IN A LINUX ENVIRONMENT .............................................. 12  
7B1. Linux: Stata ........................................................ 12  
7B2. Linux: SAS .......................................................... 13  
8. DOCUMENTATION............................................................. 14  
8A. CODEBOOK ................................................................ 14  
8A1. Variable Names ...................................................... 14  
8A2. Other Types of Documentation ........................................ 15  
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