College Social Life Survey Codebook : Demographics [Variables in Alphabetical Order]

Variable	Question
age	R's age
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.
age.r	This recodes age into three categories
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.)
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.)
athletics	Are you a member of a varsity athletics team? (not club sports or intramurals)
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.
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.
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'.
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?
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.
educational.ambition	What is the highest level of schooling you intend to complete?
educational.ambition.r	This recodes educational.ambition into 4 categories.
family.structure	What is the current relationship between your biological or adoptive parents?
gender	What is your gender?
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.
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.
greek	Are you in a fraternity or sorority?
height.in.inches	What is your height? -- Note that this variable is in inches, though the questionnaire included separate fields for feet and inches.
id	Student ID
immigrant	Were you born in the United States (one of the 50 states or Washington DC)?
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).
major	What is your major?
marriage	Do you want to get married in the future?
mother.graduated.college	This variable indicators whether the respondent's mother received a bachelor's degree or higher.
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.
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)?
party.school	This is a preliminary coding of 'party schools.'
physattr	How would you rate your physical attractiveness? -- 1 = Very unattractive, 10 = Very attractive
population.density.during.high.school	What kind of community did you go to high school in?
race	If you had to pick one racial or ethnic group to describe yourself, which would it be?
religion religion.specify	What is your current religious preference? (if other, please specify
residence	Where do you live?
school	This variable links the student to a college, using (as far as I understand) the class-specific passwords the students logged in with.
school.kind	In general, you'll want to subset school.kind == "College", since only one was a junior college.
server.date	Server timestamp
sexual.orientation	What is your sexual orientation?
signature.year signature.month signature.day	Student signature
state.graduated.high.school	What state did you graduate from high school in?
twenty.or.above	This simply indicates whether the student is at least 20
weight.in.pounds	What is your weight (in pounds)?