Codes and Frequencies
Description
For sample children ages 5-17, GOSCHOOLEV indicates if the sample child has ever attended school.
GOSCHOOLEV is part of the Child Health supplement, first released in 1981. This supplement includes a number of questions on child's schooling. For related variables see below, use the search function or IPUMS NHIS drop-down menus.
Related Variables
Variables reporting information about current school attendance:
- Sample child is currently attending or on vacation from school: GOSCHOOL
- Sample child's current grade level, or the grade level she/he will be in if between grades: SCHOLGRADE
- Sample child attends a special class to get special help because of a disability or health problem: GOSPSCHOLH
- Sample child attends or needs to attend a special class to get special help because of a disability or health problem: GONEDSPSCHOL
- Respondent thinks sample child needs special class or help in school due to a health problem: NEDSPSCHOLH
- What kind of student the respondent thinks the sample child is, ranked within her/his class: STUDRANK
- How the respondent feels the student is doing in school: STUDPERF
Respondents were also asked about non-attendance:
- SCHOLSTOPWHY: Why the sample child stopped going to school
- SCHOLSTOPAGO : How long ago the sample child stopped going to school
- EXPELEV: Sample child has ever been suspended, excluded, or expelled from school
- EXPELX: Number of times sample child has been suspended, excluded, or expelled from school
- EXPELTIMDA: Time since the sample child was last suspended, excluded, or expelled from school, in days
- EXPELTIMMO : Time since the sample child was last suspended, excluded, or expelled from school, in months
- EXPELTIMR: Time since the sample child was last suspended, excluded, or expelled from school, recoded into intervals
- EXPELWHY: Suspension, exclusion, or expulsion was for health or behavior reasons
- SCONFEV: Ever had a non-routine conference with the school to discuss problems the sample child was having
- SCONFTIMDA: Time since the last non-routine conference to discuss problems the sample child was having, in days
- SCONFTIMMO : Time since the last non-routine conference to discuss problems the sample child was having, in months
- SCONFTIMR: Time since the last non-routine conference to discuss problems the sample child was having, recoded into intervals
Variables related to grade repetition in school include:
- GRADREPET and GRADREPETR: If the sample child repeated any grades
- GRADREPET1 and GRADREPET2 : Which grade(s) the sample child repeated
- GRADREPABSNT: Sample child repeated the grade because she/he was frequently absent
- GRADREPDIFF: Sample child repeated the grade because she/he moved to a more difficult school
- GRADREPFAIL: Sample child repeated the grade because of academic failure
- GRADREPIMMAT : Sample child repeated the grade because she/he was too immature
- GRADREPOTH: Sample child repeated the grade for some other reason
Universe
- 1981; 1988: Sample persons age 5 to 17.
Availability
- 1981, 1988
Weights
- 1981, 1988 : SAMPWEIGHT
