Author: cfrederi
Company: Univ of Wisc-Madison

HEMPL – Employment Details and Summary

OVERVIEW

This module contains data about the WLS graduate’s spouse employment experiences.  Unlike the graduates, we only gather information about one job if the spouse reports that they have ever been in the labor force.  The module starts with a series of questions that identify which type of job the data come from – the job the spouse first retired from, the current job or the last job held.  The variable af001js summarizes this information.  If it existed, we collected information about the first job from which the respondent retired.  If they had never retired, we collected information about their current job.  If they were not employed during the time of the interview we asked about the last job that the respondent held.

The second part of the module gathers information about the industry and occupation (including occupational status and occupational prestige scores).  In addition we collect data on hours worked per week as well as the availability and use of pension and health care plans.

BRIEF VARIABLE DESCRIPTIONS

	af001js			Type of job reported

af002js – af005js	Whether respondent reported having a current job, a job they no longer have but was not the first job retired from, and the first job they retired from.

af006jc – af010jc	class of worker, industry and occupation codes

af011jc – af013jc	occupational status and prestige scores

af014jc – af015jc	hours worked per week

af016jc – af017jc	pension availability and participation

af018jc – af019jc	health insurance availability and participation

CODING

   Occupation and Industry codes

Occupation and industry codes were coded by specially trained coders to be compatible with the 1990 definitions that were used in the previous wave.  Major industry and occupation codes are assigned according to Cor 681.  The occupational prestige, occupational education, and occupational income scores were assigned in exactly as they were in the 1992/93.  The current code is displayed in cor863.sas.  Also see Cor 680 and 683 for the Nakao-Treas prestige score, Cor 639 and Cor 684 for details, and a recommended	transformation of the occupational education and occupational income scores from the 1992/3 documentation.	      

PROBLEMS

There were no substantial problems with this module, it was very straight forward.

PEOPLE
	
Carl Frederick –variable creation, correcting raw data, supervising open ended coding, writing the cor
	
Erin Wicke – open ended coding, correcting raw data

REFERENCES

1990 Census Detailed Occupation and Industry codes:  "1990 Census of Population and Housing Classified 
    	Index of Industries and Occupations."  1990 CPH-R-4, 1992.
        
   	1990 Occ Ed and Occ Inc scores: Hauser, Robert M. 
    	and John Robert Warren.  1997.  "Socioeconomic Indexes for Occupations:  
    	A Review, Update, and Critique."  Pp. 177-298 in _Sociological 
    	Methodology_, edited by Adrian Raftery. Cambridge: Blackwell.

   	1989 Nakao-Treas Prestige Rating: Nakao, Keiko and Judith 
   	Treas.  1994.  "Updating Occupational Prestige and Socioeconomic 
   	Scores: How the New Measures Measure Up."  Pp. 1-72 in _Sociological 
    	Methodology, 1994_, edited by Peter Marsden. Washington, D.C.: American