- Description
- Codes
- Comparability
- Universe
- Availability
- Questionnaire Text
- Flags
- Source Variables
- Editing Procedure
Description
VETPER reports the period of military service for those individuals identified as code 2 in VET1940 (veterans and wives/widows/non-adult children of veterans).
Response categories are defined by the name of the military action (or a combination of actions), not by date (e.g., World War I, not 1917-1918).
VETPER does not include men (or the wives and children of such men) who were currently in the armed forces or who performed all their military service in the National Guard, the Reserves (Army, Navy, or Marine), Reserve Officers' Training Corps, Citizens Military Training Camp, Merchant Marine, or other branch not a part of the regular military establishment.
See VETSTAT, the screening variable for veterans variables, for more information on the types of service included in or excluded from the veterans variables.
Codes and Frequencies
An 'X' indicates the category is available for that sample
| Code | Label |
1940
1pct
|
|---|---|---|
| 0 | N/A | X |
| 1 | World War I | X |
| 2 | Spanish-American, Philippine Insurrection or Boxer Rebellion | X |
| 3 | Spanish-American and World War I | X |
| 4 | Regular Establishment (peace-time service only) | X |
| 5 | Other war or expedition | X |
| 7 | Period of service not ascertained | X |
| 8 | Not ascertained | X |
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Universe
- Sample-line persons who were veterans, wives/widows, or children (under age 18) of veterans (as determined in VET1940).
Availability
- 2023: --
- 2022: --
- 2021: --
- 2020: --
- 2019: --
- 2018: --
- 2017: --
- 2016: --
- 2015: --
- 2014: --
- 2013: --
- 2012: --
- 2011: --
- 2010: --
- 2009: --
- 2008: --
- 2007: --
- 2006: --
- 2005: --
- 2004: --
- 2003: --
- 2002: --
- 2001: --
- 2000: --
- 1990: --
- 1980: --
- 1970: --
- 1960: --
- 1950: --
- 1940: All samples
- 1930: --
- 1920: --
- 1910: --
- 1900: --
- 1880: --
- 1870: --
- 1860: --
- 1850: --
- 2023: --
- 2022: --
- 2021: --
- 2020: --
- 2019: --
- 2018: --
- 2017: --
- 2016: --
- 2015: --
- 2014: --
- 2013: --
- 2012: --
- 2011: --
- 2010: --
- 2009: --
- 2008: --
- 2007: --
- 2006: --
- 2005: --
- 2000: --
- 1990: --
- 1980: --
- 1970: --
- 1930: --
- 1920: --
- 1910: --
Questionnaire Text
| 1940 1% |
Is this person a veteran of the United States military forces; or the wife, widow, or under-18-year-old child of a veteran?
Spanish-American War, Philippine Insurrection, or Boxer Rebellion - S
Both the Spanish-American War and the World War - SW
Regular Establishment (Army, Navy, or Marine Corps), peacetime service only - R
Any other war or expedition - Ot
612. For a person who is himself a veteran, the entry in col. 41 will refer to the war or military service in which he was engaged. For the wife or widow of a veteran, the entry in col. 41 will refer to the war or military service in which her veteran-husband was engaged. For an under-18-year-old child of a veteran, the entry in col. 41 will refer to the war or military service in which his (or her) veteran-father was engaged. Leave col. 41 blank for each person who is not a veteran, or who is not the wife, widow, or under-18-year-old child of a veteran.
Flags
QVETPEREditing Procedure
There is no editing procedure available for this variable.