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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 May 19.
Published in final edited form as: Socius. 2019 Sep 10;5:10.1177/2378023118817378. doi: 10.1177/2378023118817378

Table A1.

Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study Variable Naming Scheme.

Source Regular Expression Interpretation Examples
Questionnaire ^[mfkpqthodersu][1–6][a–z][1–9]* [instrument][wave number][survey section][question number] k3a8
r3f9a
Constructed ^c[mfkpqthodersu][1–6][a–z]* constructed[instrument][wave number][leaf] cf2age ch3ppvtstd
Weights ^[mfkpq][1–5][nat|city]wt* [instrument][wave number][national or city]weight k5natwt_rep14
m1citynatwt
ID number ^idnum$ ID number idnum