![]() ![]() At ages nine and fifteen, children were interviewed directly (either during the home visit or on the telephone). The parent interviews collected information on attitudes, relationships, parenting behavior, demographic characteristics, health (mental and physical), economic and employment status, neighborhood characteristics, and program participation. The FFCWS consists of interviews with mothers, fathers, and/or primary caregivers at birth and again when children are ages one, three, five, nine, and fifteen. The FFCWS was originally designed to address four questions of great interest to researchers and policy makers: (1) What are the conditions and capabilities of unmarried parents, especially fathers? (2) What is the nature of the relationships between unmarried parents? (3) How do children born into these families fare? and (4) How do policies and environmental conditions affect families and children? The study oversampled births to unmarried couples and, when weighted, the data are representative of births in large U.S. The Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS) follows a cohort of nearly 5,000 children born in the U.S. Any further references to FFCWS should kindly observe this name change. Note that some contents may contain the study's former name. The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study changed its name to The Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS) in January 2023. ![]() Login/Register The Future of Families and Child Wellbeing StudyĪnd Fragile Families Challenge The Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study The general structure of the variable names is. For more information on all the ways data can be missing, see our blog post on missing data. In general, the questionnaires are the best source for information about why certain respondents get skipped over questions. Lot’s of people got coded -6 for “Skip.” Looking back at the questionnaire, we can see why they were skipped over this question: it was only asked of those for whom “PCG = NONPARENT AND RELATIONSHIP = FOSTER CARE.” For children not in foster care, this question would not be meaningful, so it wasn’t asked.This is because the prefix “m5” indicates that this question comes from the mother wave 5 interview. The question referred to in the questionnaire as A3B is called m5a3b in the codebook.In the corresponding codebook, we see the count of respondents who gave each answer: Let’s look at the mother questionnaire and codebook. On page 5 of the questionnaire, you will see the following question: On the left, you will see a set of links that will take you to the documentation for particular waves of the data.Ĭlicking on the link for Year 9 (Wave 5) as an example, we see the following page of documentation for this survey. This brings you to the main documentation for the full study. Once there, click the “Data and Documentation” tab. The first place to go to find out what a given variable represents is the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study website: We’ve put together this blog post so you can find out what variables in the Challenge data file mean. The Fragile Families survey documentation can be confusing. ![]()
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