Family Interrelationships Variables in IPUMS MEPS

Researchers interested in families and health may add a new tool to their toolkit: IPUMS family interrelationship variables are now available in IPUMS MEPS! Also known as family pointers, these variables increase reproducibility, flexibility and ease of use when analyzing family units and relationships within households – whether users are interested in isolating simple parent-child dyads or in assembling more complex family units potentially involving multigenerational and multifamily arrangements.

IPUMS has pioneered the development of family pointers, and these variables have since been added to most of our data collection projects. Their recent addition to IPUMS MEPS presents exciting opportunities owing to the unique richness of the MEPS data, which includes the possibility to eventually expand these pointers to a panel format.

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