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Description Derivation and details of construction Variable
name in
data
Lived with parents at The prefix m indicate mother, the prefix f indicates father. mother not Mnpres14,
respondent age 14
Mother’s and
Father’s occupation
at age respondent 14
if lived with them at
14
Mother’s and
Father’s highest
educational
qualification at
respondent age 14 if
lived with them
Attitude to working
women
Number of other
children in family
Religion
Type of school last
attended
Highest overall
qualification in 1984
present, mnpres14; father not present, fnpres14
The prefix m indicate mother, the prefix f indicates father. The 2-digit
ASCO 169 codes, where dummies with value 1 for categories, for
mother labourer, mlabo; plant operative, mplan; sales, msale; clerical,
mcler; tradespeople, mtrad; not employed, mnemp; mmpp, for mother
manager, professional or para-professional. For father labourer, flabo;
plant operative, fplan; sales, fsale; clerical, fcler; tradespeople, ftrad;
not employed, fnemp; fmpp, for father manager, professional or paraprofessional.
The prefix m indicate mother, the prefix f indicates father. Mpsq and
fpsq dummy where value of 1 for any post-school qualification
including degree, trade/apprenticeship, other post-school qualification.
Those with zero attended secondary school, primary school, no school.
Based on questions that examine attitude to women in work. An
underlying variable is created, where Sexist is an index between 0–7 of
how many questions respondents agreed or strongly agreed with
reactionary attitudes to women and work. ksink5p is then a dummy
with value 1 for sexist greater than five respectively. An interaction
variable ks5pfem interacts ksink5p with female.
Total number of older and younger siblings (nsib).
Religion brought up in as a set of dummies, with value 1 where Church
of England, coe; Roman Catholic, cath; Presbyterian, pres; Methodist,
meth; other Christian, othx; other religion, othrel; no religion, norel).
Type of last school if went to school in Australia, dummies for
government, lsgov; Roman Catholic, lsrcs; other type, including
private, lspriv; lsos if last attended school overseas.
Highest overall qualification in 1984 survey. Set of dummies, with
value of 1 for degree, diploma/other cert Hq_dd84;
apprenticeship/trainee/ATS, hq_tra84; other post-school, hq_oth84;
years of school, year 12 hq12_84; years of school year 11 hq11_84;
years of school year 10 hq10_84; hq9_84=1 if year school 9 or less.
Time varying dummies for overall highest qualification. Takes the
values as above, for each later survey year 1985, 1986.
fnpres14
Mlabo,
mplan.
Msale,
mcler,
mtrad,
mnemp,
mmpp;
Fabo, fplan.
fsale, fcler,
ftrad,
fnemp,
fmpp;
Mpsq, fpsq
Ksink5p;
ks5pfem
nsib
Coe, cath,
pres, meth,
othx, othrel
Lsgov,
lsrcs,
lspriv, lsos.
Hqdd84,
hqtra84,
hqoth84,
hq12_84,
hq11_84,
hq10_84,
hq9_84
Hq_dd,
hq_tra,
hq_oth,
hq12, hq11,
hq10, hq9
169 Australian Standard Classification for Occupation, a skill-based classification of occupations as defined
by the Australian Bureau of Statistics ABS Catalogue number: 1221.0 ASCO First Edition which was used
to code occupation data in surveys to May 1996.