Description of Test: This database includes
both examiners' assessments of the quality of the mother's
interactions with the examiners and the twins. The data is
organized by the TWINID that the examiner tested. The ratings
are global ratings across all the Home Visit procedures, so no
specific procedure description is given here.
To see the form on which the data was recorded,
click to see form.
Variable Names: Variable names from
this database have the prefix V1RAT. The data set has 789
ratings (395 mothers each rated by 2 examiners; family 278
only had one rating) and 12 variables. Data were collected
following the home visit of 14 month old twins. The variables
include: Interviewer ID, 10 rating items, and a comment field.
In addition, the ten averaged maternal ratings across both
Examiners have been added to the file with the prefix V1RATC.
Move there to move to the complete
list of
variable names from this database.
Cleaning: The data have been examined to
ensure that the values of the variables are within range.
Composites: There are 10 composite variables:
V1RATC1 to V1RATC10 which represent the averaged Examiner ratings
for the mother. Each twin in the twin pair will have
identical averaged Examiner ratings.
