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Use a piece of notebook paper to answer these questions. Please put your name in the upper right hand corner for purposes of recording your participation in this class activity. The name will be cut off before submitting the data for statistical recording in the data spreadsheet. Be sure to number the questions so the answers can be easily collated to the data spreadsheet. Feel free to add more information if you think it will help us to understand your family situation. Remember, there will be no personal identifiers to reveal your family secrets! 1. How many people are in your nuclear family (including genetic and adoptive)? actual number 2. How many people are in your extended family who are genetic and adoptive relatives? (Include all living parents, sisters and brothers, half sisters and brothers, grandparents, blood relative aunts and uncles, first cousins, direct-line nieces and nephews. You might want to jot down a quick list to use in answering some questions farther down) In other words, include anyone who shares genetic material with you and anyone who has been legally added to the family by adoption. actual number 3. How many people are in your extended family who are NOT genetic relatives? (This would include your aunts' and uncles' marital partners, brothers and sisters in-law, step brothers and sisters, etc.) actual number 4. How many people lived in your home during your high school years? actual number 5. How many times did your family move between the time you were born and the time you graduated from high school? actual number 6. What is the current marital status of your parents? single 7. What is your marital status? single 8. Do you have any children? actual number 9. How many years of high school and college did your mother finish? actual number 10. How many years of high school and college did your father finish? actual number 11. Think about the relative economic status of your nuclear family. Consider a scale from 0 (extreme, abject poverty) to 100 (extreme, "obscene" wealth). What number would best represent your nuclear family? number between 0 and 100 12. Think about the relative economic status of your extended family. Using the same scale as for the previous question, what number would best represent the economic status of your extended family? number between 0 and 100 13. What is the economic status of the least secure household of your extended family? Use the same scale as for the previous question. number between 0 and 100 14. What is the economic status of the most secure household of your extended family? Use the same scale as for the previous question. number between 0 and 100 15. In what country and state were you born? name of country and state 16. How many generations back did your mother's ancestors immigrate to your birth country? Count your maternal grandparents as one, your maternal great-grandparents as two, etc. Estimate if you don't know for sure. actual number 17. How many generations back did your father's ancestors immigrate to your birth country? Count your paternal grandparents as one, your paternal side great-grandparents as two, etc. Estimate if you don't know for sure. actual number 18. Do your parents own their own home(s) or rent home(s)? own 19. Is your mother employed? If yes, is it part-time or full-time? What kind of job does she have? actual information 20. Is your father employed? If yes, is it part-time or full-time? What kind of job does he have? actual information 21. Is any genetic or adopted relative disabled so as to be unable to work? yes 22. Does any genetic or adopted relative receive welfare assistance or food stamps? yes 23. Do you receive any substantial financial assistance from your genetic or adopted relatives in order to be able to go to Creighton University? (I'm not asking here about occasional irregular gifts, but rather regular payments that enable you to be here as compared to going to a much cheaper state university.) yes 24. Has any genetic or adopted relative been involuntarily unemployed for more than a year during his or her working age life? yes 25. Have you ever received a gift or inheritance from a genetic or adopted relative worth $10,000 or more? yes 26. How many genetic or adopted relatives are currently living in a retirement center, an assisted living facility, or a nursing home? actual number 27. When you were a child, did your mother work outside the home? If yes, who took care of you while she worked? yes or no, and actual information 28. Has any genetic or adopted relative been severely injured on the job or become seriously ill due to job related circumstances? yes |