infile dictionary { *This program reads the 1999 National Health Interview Survey 1999 househld Data File *by Jean Roth Mon Jul 2 15:43:08 EDT 2007 *Please report errors to jroth@nber.org *See the .do file for directions and run with do nhis1999_househld *NOTE: This program is distributed under the GNU GPL. *See end of this file and http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ for details. _column(1 ) byte rectype %2f "Record Type" _column(3 ) int srvy_yr %4f "Processing Year" _column(7 ) str6 hhx %6s "Household Serial Number" _column(13 ) byte intv_qrt %1f "Interviewing Quarter" _column(14 ) byte assignwk %2f "Assignment Week" _column(16 ) str2 int_m_p %2s "Date of Interview - Month" _column(18 ) str4 int_y_p %4s "Date of Interview - Year" _column(22 ) byte livqrt %2f "Type of Living Quarters" _column(24 ) byte non_intv %1f "Category of type A non-response" _column(25 ) byte telenum %1f "Telephone number" _column(26 ) byte inside %1f "Working phone inside home" _column(27 ) byte noserv %1f "Without telephone service past 12 mon" _column(28 ) byte howlngwk %2f "Number of weeks w/o telephone service" _column(30 ) byte nowaf_hh %1f "Armed Forces member in HH" _column(31 ) byte acpt_fam %2f "Number of families responding in HH" _column(33 ) byte rej_fam %2f "Number of families not responding in " _column(35 ) byte acpt_per %2f "Number of persons responding in HH" _column(37 ) byte rej_per %2f "Number of persons not responding in H" _column(39 ) byte acptchld %2f "Number of children that responded in " _column(41 ) byte lng_intv %1f "Language of interview" _column(42 ) byte region %1f "Region" _column(43 ) byte msasizep %1f "Geographic Distribution - MSA size" _column(44 ) long wtia_hh %6f "Weight - Interim Annual" _column(50 ) long wtfa_hh %6f "Weight - Final Annual" _column(56 ) int stratum %3f "Stratum for variance estimation" _column(59 ) byte psu %1f "PSU for variance estimation" } /* Copyright 2007 shared by the National Bureau of Economic Research and Jean Roth National Bureau of Economic Research. 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 jroth@nber.org This program and all programs referenced in it are free software. You can redistribute the program or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA. */