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Description & Citation--Study No. 9595

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:9595
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09595
 
Title:Survey of Parents and Children, 1990: [United States]
 
Principal Investigator(s):National Commission on Children
 
Bibliographic Citation:National Commission on Children. SURVEY OF PARENTS AND CHILDREN, 1990: [UNITED STATES] [Computer file]. ICPSR version. Washington, DC: Child Trends, Inc./Princeton, NJ: Princeton Survey Research/Ann Arbor, MI: DataStat [producers], 1990. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1999. doi:10.3886/ICPSR09595
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This data collection was designed to assess the well-being, attitudes, and life circumstances of American families. Interviews were conducted with a sample of parents and their children between the ages of 10 and 17. Children were asked questions about their neighborhood and school, such as whether they thought their neighborhood was a good place for children to grow up, whether they liked school, and whether they experienced peer pressure to engage in various behaviors. They were also asked how they spent their time during the summer, whether they could confide in their parents, and whether they often spent time in the house alone. Children who did not reside with their biological parents were asked about frequency and nature of contact with biological parents. Additional questions concerned weekend, after-school, and family activities. Parents were asked similar questions about their children's activities and behavior, as well as questions about their own attitudes and concerns regarding parenting.
 
Subject Term(s):after school programs, attitudes, children, families, family life, lifestyles, neighborhoods, parents, peer influence, recreation, schools
 
Geographic Coverage:United States
 
Time Period:1990
 
Date(s) of Collection:1990
 
Universe:Parents in the continental United States living with their children.
 
Data Type:survey data
 
Data Collection Notes:The database dictionary is an ASCII text file, and the codebook is provided as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided through the ICPSR Website on the Internet.
 

Methodology

Sample:National sample of 1,738 parents in the continental United States living with their children. Households with children aged 10 and over were oversampled, as were households with Black and Hispanic children. A sample of 929 children aged 10-17 living in households selected for the study was also interviewed.
 
Data Source:telephone interviews
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:1992-01-10
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 1999-05-12.
 
  1999-05-12 - SAS and SPSS data definition statements were added to this collection, and the codebook is now provided as a PDF file.
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Data File
  • DS2: Data Dictionary
 

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