DOI: 10.3886/icpsr04206
title: Survey of Stratification and Migration Dynamics in Russia, 1985-2001
title: Archival Version

description: The purpose of the study was to collect survey data on the
 employment/work histories, family structure histories, and residential
 mobility histories of Russian adults from January 1985 through the end
 of the survey. The work histories include the following information
 about each job held during that time period: occupation, how the job
 was found, employer type, industry, and size. In addition,
 the survey gathered information on current residence, occupation,
 other job characteristics, earnings, sources of household income,
 household ownership of consumer goods, basic demographic indicators,
 and attitude measures. The data were designed to be used
 for multivariate analysis of the factors influencing changes in
 employment status, job mobility of various types, changes in marital
 status, fertility, and residential mobility in Russia during the
 period of 1985-2001. Since the period covered by the histories spans
 the final seven years of the Soviet era and the first decade of the
 post-Soviet era, the data are uniquely suited for assessing whether
 the transition from Soviet-style socialism has affected
 stratification, family formation, and migration processes. Moreover,
 because the data include work/employment, family structure, and
 migration histories, the dataset is uniquely suited for dynamic
 analyses of the inter-relationships among states and events in these
 three domains. Finally, because the data contain information on each
 respondent's oblast (region) of residence at all points in time from
 1985-2001, data on regional characteristics can be merged with files
 created from the survey data, in order to measure the impact of
 regional characteristics on individual-level events. The data can be
 used to investigate job and employment transitions, union formation
 and dissolution, fertility, departures of children, internal
 migration, determinants of earnings, wage arrears, consumption, and
other topics.
description: The data contain weights calculated by the data producers.
 The weights correct the four-way distribution of locality type
 (regional capitals, Moscow, St. Petersburg, and other localities),
 sex, age group (16 to 24, 25 to 39, 40 to 54, and 55 plus), and
 education (higher, complete secondary, and less than secondary) to
equal the population distribution.
description: Response Rates: Among respondents who could be identified and
contacted, the response rate was 62.1 percent.
description: Multistage probability sample. All urban population points
 and rural administrative areas were divided into 65 strata according
 to region, a proxy for ethnic composition, size, and administrative
 status. A total of 101 PSUs were systematically selected within
 strata with probabilities proportionate to size (Moscow and St.
 Petersburg were self-representing). SSUs consisting of either
 electorate districts (in urban PSUs) or villages (in rural PSUs) were
 selected within each PSU such that 8-12 interviews were conducted in
 each SSU. Addresses within SSUs were selected using a random walk
 algorithm. At each address, the respondent with the nearest birthday
 was selected for interview. If no contact could be made with a
 designated respondent at a given address after three tries, the
 interviewer was permitted to substitute another address using a random
walk algorithm.
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: Russian
DS2: English
description: Noninstitutionalized adults aged 16 and over residing in
Russia at the time of the survey.
description: (1) This data collection contains Cyrillic characters.
 Users are encouraged to set their computer language settings to best
 view these foreign-language characters. (2) An additional Stata setup
 file (supplementary do file) is included with this data collection to
 enable Stata to read foreign-language characters. Instructions on
 running the supplementary Stata do file are included in the Stata
 setup files. (3) Due to large file size, users may need to allocate
 additional memory when reading the Stata system file. (4) The original
 dataset was split into two separate parts. Part 1 includes the
 original Russian variables only (DATASET to QO26_20). Part 2 includes
 the cleaned English variables and constructed variables (DATASET to
RESPID, SEX to TYP4ST).