Begoalt

Record Type BEGOALT

This Record provides a mechanism for identifying the relationship of each individual in a household
to all others. There are two records for each relationship pair to separately identify the relationship
in either direction (e.g. one record identifies that person 1 is the parent of person 3, while another
record identifies that person 3 is the child of person 1). The relationship codes are not gendered, so
the sex of each person is also given. The relationship given is that of the second person to the first
(e.g. if BPNO = 1 and BOPNO = 3 and BREL = 4 (natural child)) then person 3 is the natural child of
person 1.

The variable BLWSTAT allows the computation of household composition change measures since
Wave One, and BNWSTAT composition change between Wave Two and Wave Three.

The results contained in the following tables are obtained from unweighted data. See Volume A for
a full discussion on weighting.