Klosa: KLoSA wave 4
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Korea Longitudinal Study of Aging wave 4 (2012)

1	data(Klosa)

A data frame with 2153 rows of 45 variables:

pid: personal ID
wave: = (year-2006)/2 + 1
male: 1 if male
educ: years of education
age: age
married: 1 if married, 0 otherwise
childnum: number of children
hsize: number of housemates
region: region type, one of "big city", "small city", and "town"
htype: type of residential facility, either "dwelling" or "apartment"
religion: 1 if has religion
meeting1: 1 if in religious meeting groups
meeting2: 1 if in social gathering groups
meeting3: 1 if in leasure/sports groups, etc.
meeting4: 1 if in union/fraternity groups, etc.
meeting5: 1 if in volunteer service groups
meeting6: 1 if in political/civic/interest groups
health: health conditions, one of "excellent", "above average", "average", "below average", and "poor"
hlth: 1=poor, 2=below average, 3=average, 4=above average, 5=excellent
hlth3: 1=health above average, 0=average, -1=below average
height: height in cm
weight: weight in kg
exercise: period of regular exercise; 0=do not regularly exercise, 1=0~3mo, 2=4~6mo, 3=7mo~1yr, 4=1~2yr, 5=3~4yr, 6=5~6yr, 7=7+yr
bmi: BMI
smoke: # of cigarettes smoked per day
working: 1 if working
jobtype: job type; one of waged empolyee, self-employed, unemployed, unpaid family worker
jobseeking: 1 if seeking a job
receive: amount received from children last year (10k KRW)
give: amount given to children last year (10k KRW)
poketm: regular pocket money received from children (10k KRW)
satisfy1: satisfaction about health conditions
satisfy2: satisfaction about economic conditions
satisfy3: satisfaction about relationship with spouse
satisfy4: satisfaction about relationship with children
satisfy5: satisfaction in comparison to others in the same age group (out of 100)
travel1: number of travels last year
travel2: expenditure on travel (10k KRW)
culture1: number of cultural activities
culture2: expenditure on cultural activities
hobby1: hours for hobbies, per month
hobby2: expenditure on hobbies (10k KRW)
training1: hours for self development, per month
training2: expenditure on self development (10k KRW)
voluntary: hours of volunteer service