DESCRIPTION OF NEWWS FIVE-YEAR CHILD OUTCOMES STUDY SURVEY PUBLIC USE FILE CD #6 The Five-Year Child Outcomes Study (COS) Survey Public Use data file and documentation include: NOTE: All files are in ASCII. \C5PCOVER.TXT provides an introduction to the data and documentation and offers suggestions on how to use the files. \C5README.TXT [this file] describes the files stored on this CD. \NEWWS\PUBLIC\5YEAR\COS\DATA\N5PC1730.TXT N5PC1730.TXT contains, in ASCII format, survey-based measures of children's developmental outcomes, child care, and child activities. Sample weights used in statistical models and in subgroup impact analyses are also included. N5PC1730.TXT includes a total of 2,332 sample members; 1,472 of these respondents also have survey data available from the teachers of their focal child. The file contains 14 records of data for each COS sample member. IMPORTANT !!!: 1) Survey responses must be weighted to make the findings generalizable to the Full Impact Sample. See C5PCOVER.TXT for details. 2) Additional child outcomes measures for the focal child and a key survey weight variable are stored in the Five-Year Client Survey file (N5PS1726.TXT on CD #5). 3) Most of respondents' background characteristics and all administrative records data are stored in the Five-Year Full Sample Impact file (N5PI1809.TXT on CD #1) \NEWWS\PUBLIC\5YEAR\COS\CODEBOOK\N5PC_CBK.TXT This file contains the data codebook, a comprehensive description of N5PC1730.TXT. For each variable on the data file the codebook provides the following information: The name of the variable and its starting and ending columns on the ASCII file, the variable's SAS informat (5.0 is the default), the variable label, a brief description of the variable and any issues with the variable. (Note: The data are stored in ASCII, so informats can be changed to conform to any statistical or econometric software package.) The codebook also displays the N, NMISS, MEAN, Standard Deviation, Minimum, and Maximum for each variable. For variables with 51 values or less, a frequency distribution is listed. The frequencies show the value labels. These may be copied and, if necessary, modified to be read into SAS or any other statistical or econometric software package. \NEWWS\PUBLIC\5YEAR\COS\LAYOUT\N5PCIPUT.TXT This file contains the body of a SAS input statement (variable name, starting column, length, informat) which will read N5PC1730.TXT. To run this input statement in SAS you must add the word INPUT to the top line and a semicolon to the bottom line. This statement can be modified to input the data into any statistical or econometric software package. \NEWWS\PUBLIC\5YEAR\COS\MEANS\N5PCMEAN.TXT SAS PROC MEANS output contains the following information for all variables by site: N,Nmiss, Mean, Standard Deviation, Minimum, Maximum \NEWWS\PUBLIC\5YEAR\COS\LABEL\N5PCLABL.TXT SAS variable label statements for each variable of the data file. Labels can be modified to conform to syntax rules of any statistical or econometric software package. \NEWWS\PUBLIC\5YEAR\COS\TABLES \RSP5TBL1.TXT Response rates for survey samples \SMP5TBL1.TXT Displays sample sizes for key subsamples. Variable names are included in table headers. Annotated impact tables of key outcomes calculated with survey data. Variable names are listed on the right side of the tables: Table Outcome \C5PTBL1.TXT Experience of barriers to work or abuse \C5PTBL2.TXT Experience of barriers to work or abuse \C5PTBL3.TXT Child care \C5PTBL4.TXT Child care \C5PTBL5.TXT Child outcomes \C5PTBL6.TXT Child outcomes \C5PTBL7.TXT Child outcomes \C5PTBL8.TXT Child outcomes \NEWWS\PUF\5YEAR\COS\MEMOS \N5PCVARS.TXT: Background information on outcomes recorded from survey interviews and additional outcome measures created from these data.