NLOG98: NLOG98 Netherlands Family and Fertility Survey 1998
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Life history data of NLOG98: a subsample of 500 of the 5450 respondents of the NLOG98

1	data(NLOG98)

A data frame with 500 observations on the following 23 variables.

ID: Personal identification number
born: Date of birth in Century Month Code (CMC)
start: Date at entry in observation in CMC
end: Date at exit from observation in CMC
kerk: Religious denomination: a factor with 5 levels: (1) no religion (2) Roman Catholic (3) Protestant (4) other (5) missing data
educ: Level of education: a factor with 6 levels: (2) Primary education (3) Secondary lower (4) Secondary higher (5) First step tertiary education (6) Second step tertiary education (7) Third step tertiary education
cohort: Birth cohort: a factor with 2 levels: (1) <1960 (2) 1960+
path: State sequence during observation period
Tr1: Date of first transition in CMC
Tr2: Date of second transition in CMC
Tr3: Date of third transition in CMC
Tr4: Date of fourth transition in CMC
Tr5: Date of fifth transition in CMC
Tr6: Date of sixth transition in CMC
Tr7: Date of seventh transition in CMC
Tr8: Date of eighth transition in CMC
Tr9: Date of nineth transition in CMC

NLOG98 data

Statistics Netherlands. Life history format: Matsuo and Willekens, 2003

Matsuo, H., Willekens F. (2003) Event histories in the Netherlands Fertility and Family Survey 1998: A technical report. PRC Research Report 2003-1, Groningen: Population Research Centre, University of Groningen.