Description

For sample children with at least one residential parent, SAMERACECP identifies whether they are the same race as all residential parents. In the 2021 manual, it states that there can be a maximum of four parents for a given sample child.

Related Variables

SAMERACECP is one of several variables that NCHS makes available about the demographic characteristics of parents of sample children. For a complete list of these variables, see the variable description for NUMRESPRNT.

Comparability

There are no comparability issues for this variable.

Universe

Availability

• 2019-2023

Weights

• 2019-2023 : SAMPWEIGHT