College Social Life Survey Codebook : Demographics [Variable in Column Order]

Variable	Question
id	Student ID
server.date	Server timestamp
signature.year signature.month signature.day	Student signature
school	This variable links the student to a college, using (as far as I understand) the class-specific passwords the students logged in with.
party.school	This is a preliminary coding of 'party schools.'
school.kind	In general, you'll want to subset school.kind == "College", since only one was a junior college.
age	R's age
twenty.or.above	This simply indicates whether the student is at least 20
age.r	This recodes age into three categories
grade	What is your current year in school?
grade.c	This collapses, for 1st-4th year undergrads, junior and senior together, to increase cell size in some regressions.
grade.cc	This collapses, for 1st-4th year undergrads, sophomore, junior and senior together, to increase cell size in some regressions.
is.traditional.age	I coded these such that: freshman are 18, sophomores 19, juniors 20, and seniors 21, all +/- 1. This looks for students in their 1st-4th years of college (so it's false for 5th-year students).
bio.sex bio.sex.r	This differs from gender only in that transgenders are missing. It does not recode transgender individuals to their biological sex. The variable is named bio.sex and not sex since, for this dataset, almost everything has to do with some kind of sex. (This variable exists only because there's a female vector in the original file; I don't really see it's purpose versus just using gender, beyond the fact that it will automatically result in the listwise deletion of transgender individuals from a regression which includes both sexes.
gender	What is your gender?
residence	Where do you live?
major	What is your major?
state.graduated.high.school	What state did you graduate from high school in?
gpa	What is your cumulative GPA?
gpa.c	This variable collapses gpa into fewer categories, for regressions that are easier to read and also for larger cell sizes.
greek	Are you in a fraternity or sorority?
athletics	Are you a member of a varsity athletics team? (not club sports or intramurals)
childhood.religion childhood.religion.specify	What religion were you raised in? (if other, please specify)
childhood.religion.r	This collapses evangelical into Protestant, and non-Jewish, non-Catholic, non-Protestant, non-None into Other.
religion religion.specify	What is your current religious preference? (if other, please specify
church.attendance	How often did you typically attend religious services in the past year?
church.attendance.r	This recodes church attendance; 'Never' remains 'Never'; 'A few times a year' is relabeled 'Rarely'; and the remaining -- 1-3 times monthly, once a week, and more than once a week -- are collapsed into 'Regularly'.
race	If you had to pick one racial or ethnic group to describe yourself, which would it be?
white black chinese japanese korean filipino vietnamese south.asian other.asian mexican puerto.rican other.hispanic native.american other.race.but.not.native.american race.specify other.race asian hispanic	Which of these racial or ethnic groups describes you? (check all that apply) -- Note that other.race, asian, and hispanic are collapsed versions of the preceding more detailed categories. (See also race, where students were asked to pick one.)
immigrant	Were you born in the United States (one of the 50 states or Washington DC)?
continent.of.origin	If you were not born in the United States, where were you born?
country.of.origin	In which country were you born in?
population.density.during.high.school	What kind of community did you go to high school in?
mothers.education	What level of education has your mother completed? -- Note that no parallel question exists about R's father's education.
mothers.education.r	This collapses High school only and Less than high school into High school or less.
mother.graduated.college	This variable indicators whether the respondent's mother received a bachelor's degree or higher.
family.structure	What is the current relationship between your biological or adoptive parents?
age.parents.separated	If your parents are no longer together, how old were you when their relationship ended? -- Note that this includes the level "Not Applicable" if the parents are still together (or one is dead) and the original question is missing.
sexual.orientation	What is your sexual orientation?
weight.in.pounds	What is your weight (in pounds)?
height.in.inches	What is your height? -- Note that this variable is in inches, though the questionnaire included separate fields for feet and inches.
physattr	How would you rate your physical attractiveness? -- 1 = Very unattractive, 10 = Very attractive
educational.ambition	What is the highest level of schooling you intend to complete?
educational.ambition.r	This recodes educational.ambition into 4 categories.
dates.greek	Since you started college, with how many people have you been on dates with whom you were NOT already in a relationship, where... ...the date DID NOT involve going to a fraternity, sorority, or dorm event?
dates.since.started.college	This variable sums greek and other dates, but note that these two original variables from the questionnaire were both capped at 15.
num.people.asked.out.since.started.college	How many people have you asked out on dates since starting college (not counting fraternity, sorority, dorm events, or people you were already in a relationship with)?
marriage	Do you want to get married in the future?
any.children	Do you have children?
any.romances.of.at.least.six.months num.romances	Since you started college have you been in a romantic relationship that has lasted longer than six months? If so, how many? (I recoded num.romances, which in the questionnaire can range from [1, 5], to [0, 5], using the answer to the former question.)