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Protocol - Birthplace of Grandparents

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Description

The respondent completes the self-administered questionnaire by indicating his or her maternal grandmothers place of birth. If he or she was born in the United States, an additional question captures the state, if known. If he or she was not born in the United States, another open-ended question asks for this location. The same procedures would be followed for obtaining the birthplace of the respondents maternal grandfather, paternal grandmother, and paternal grandfather.

Specific Instructions

The birthplace of the respondent’s parents should also be captured.

Availability

Available

Protocol

(Birthplace of maternal grandmother)

The following question has been revised from the original.

Where was your mother’s mother born?

[ ] In the United States - Print name of state

________________________

[ ] Outside the United States - Print U.S. Territory (e.g., Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam) or name of foreign country, etc.

[ ] Don’t know

(Birthplace of maternal grandfather)

The following question has been revised from the original.

Where was your mother’s father born?

[ ] In the United States - Print name of state

________________________

[ ] Outside the United States - Print U.S. Territory (e.g., Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam) or name of foreign country, etc.

[ ] Don’t know

(Birthplace of paternal grandmother)

The following question has been revised from the original.

Where was your father’s mother born?

[ ] In the United States - Print name of state

________________________

[ ] Outside the United States - Print U.S. Territory (e.g., Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam) or name of foreign country, etc.

[ ] Don’t know

(Birthplace of paternal grandfather)

The following question has been revised from the original.

Where was your father’s father born?

[ ] In the United States - Print name of state

________________________

[ ] Outside the United States - Print U.S. Territory (e.g., Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam) or name of foreign country, etc.

[ ] Don’t know

Personnel and Training Required

This question may be self-administered (as in the source protocol) or administered by an interviewer with a paper-and-pencil or computer-assisted interview.

The interviewer must be trained to conduct personal interviews with individuals from the general population. The interviewer must be trained and found to be competent (i.e., tested by an expert) at the completion of personal interviews.* The interviewer should be trained to prompt respondents further if a "don’t know" response is provided.

* There are multiple modes to administer this question (e.g., paper-and-pencil and computer-assisted interviews).

Equipment Needs

Either a paper-and-pencil or computer-assisted instrument may be used. If a computer-assisted instrument is used, computer software may be necessary to develop the instrument. The interviewer will require a laptop computer or handheld computer to administer a computer-assisted questionnaire.

Requirements
Requirement CategoryRequired
Major equipment No
Specialized training No
Specialized requirements for biospecimen collection No
Average time of greater than 15 minutes in an unaffected individual No
Mode of Administration

Self-administered or interviewer-administered questionnaire

Lifestage

Infant, Toddler, Child, Adolescent, Adult, Senior, Pregnancy

Participants

Any age. A proxy may also provide this information.

Selection Rationale

Birthplace of grandparents relates to a respondent’s ancestry.

An open-ended response was preferred to a coded list of countries.

Language

Chinese, English, Other languages available at source

Standards
StandardNameIDSource
Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC) Birthplace grandparents proto 63050-9 LOINC
caDSR Form PhenX PX010401 - Birthplace Of Grandparents 5791070 caDSR Form
Derived Variables

None

Process and Review

The Expert Review Panel #2 (ERP) reviewed the measures in the Demographics, Environmental Exposures, and Social Environments domains.

Guidance from ERP 2 includes:

• No significant changes to measure

Back-compatible: no changes to Data Dictionary

Previous version in Toolkit archive (link)

Protocol Name from Source

American Community Survey (ACS), 2008

Source

U.S. Census Bureau. (2008). American Community Survey (ACS), 2008. Washington, DC: Author. Question number: Person 1, #7.

General References

Public Population Project in Genomics (P3G) Data Schema and Harmonization Platform for Epidemiological Research (DataSHaPER).

U.S. Census Bureau. (2007). 2006 American Community Survey Content Test Report P.1. Evaluation report covering place of birth, U.S. citizenship status, and year of arrival. Washington, DC: Author.

Protocol ID

10401

Variables
Export Variables
Variable Name Variable IDVariable DescriptiondbGaP Mapping
PX010401_Maternal_Grandfather_Birthplace
PX010401030000 Where was your mother's father born? Variable Mapping
PX010401_Maternal_Grandfather_Birthplace_Location
PX010401040000 Where was your mother's father born? In the more
United States - Print name of state Outside the United States - Print U.S. Territory (e.g., Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam) or name of foreign country etc. show less
Variable Mapping
PX010401_Maternal_Grandmother_Birthplace
PX010401010000 Where was your mother's mother born? Variable Mapping
PX010401_Maternal_Grandmother_Birthplace_Location
PX010401020000 Where was your mother's mother born? In the more
United States - Print name of state Outside the United States - Print U.S. Territory (e.g., Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam) or name of foreign country etc. show less
N/A
PX010401_Paternal_Grandfather_Birthplace
PX010401070000 Where was your father's father born? Variable Mapping
PX010401_Paternal_Grandfather_Birthplace_Location
PX010401080000 Where was your father's father born? In the more
United States - Print name of state Outside the United States - Print U.S. Territory (e.g., Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam) or name of foreign country etc. show less
N/A
PX010401_Paternal_Grandmother_Birthplace
PX010401050000 Where was your father's mother born? Variable Mapping
PX010401_Paternal_Grandmother_Birthplace_Location
PX010401060000 Where was your father's mother born? In the more
United States - Print name of state Outside the United States - Print U.S. Territory (e.g., Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam) or name of foreign country etc. show less
N/A
Demographics
Measure Name

Birthplace of Grandparents

Release Date

February 6, 2009

Definition

Questions asking the respondent for his or her maternal grandmother’s place of birth, maternal grandfather’s place of birth, paternal grandmother’s place of birth, and paternal grandfather’s place of birth.

Purpose

The main reason to capture the birthplaces of grandparents (maternal and paternal) is to indicate additional information about the ancestral background of the respondent.

Keywords

Demographics, ancestry, grandparents, immigration, race, ethnicity, American Community Survey, ACS, U.S. Census Bureau, immigrant health

Measure Protocols
Protocol ID Protocol Name
10401 Birthplace of Grandparents
Publications

Schettini, E., et al. (2021) Internalizing-externalizing comorbidity and regional brain volumes in the ABCD study. Development and Psychopathology. 2021 December; 33(5): 1620-1633.

Barch, D. M., et al. (2021) Demographic and mental health assessments in the adolescent brain and cognitive development study: Updates and age-related trajectories. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 2021 December; 52: 101031. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2021.101031

Barch, D. M., et al. (2018) Demographic, physical and mental health assessments in the adolescent brain and cognitive development study: Rationale and description. Dev Cogn Neurosci. 2018 August; 32: 55-66. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2017.10.010

McCarty, C.A., Berg, R., Rottscheit, C.M., Waudby, C.J., Kitchner, T., Brilliant, M., Ritchie, M.D. (2014) Validation of PhenX measures in the personalized medicine research project for use in gene/environment studies. BMC Med Genomics. 2014 January; 7: 3. doi: 10.1186/1755-8794-7-3