WLS_2004_Graduate
Networks
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Variables
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Population
WLS Graduate sample
The population consists of a random sample of all Wisconsin high school graduates in 1957, born between 1938 and 1940.
Data Collection Event
2004 survey
Telephone and mail surveys. 1993 measures were repeated. It also included:
- Network data linking study participants
- Volunteering
- Internet use
- End of life preparations
- End of life experiences (death of spouse or parent)
- Menstruation, menopause and hysterectomy
- Hostility, anger, anxiety
- Masculinity scale
- Social support and relationships
- Marital quality
- Health Utility Index (functional measure)
- More detailed measures of chronic illnesses than collected in 1993
- Cognition-letter/category fluency
- Cognition-similarities
- Cogntion-word recall
- Health care access and utilization
- Retrospective childhood health
- Retrospective childhood abuse