VAR 000918 Y6(1). Assigned employment status MD: EQ 0 COLUMNS: 1825 - 1825 Numeric Y6(1). Please look at page 17 of the booklet. We'd like to know if you are working now, temporarily laid off, or are you unemployed, retired, permanently disabled, a homemaker, a student, or what? ASSIGNED EMPLOYMENT SERIES --------------------------------------------------------------------- See notes Y6. This variable describes the series of employment questions to which R is initially assigned according to R's self- identification of employment status. By contrast, the Y6(2) and Y6(3) employment status summary variables are built using relevant information from R's Y6(1) self-identification and also from information obtained during questioning (especially number of hours worked). Initial series assignment from multiple mentions given by R for his or her own employment status is as follows: RET ONLY or (RET and any others) -->retired series HM/ST ONLY or (HM/ST and UN/DIS/WN/TLO) -->hmkr/st series DIS ONLY or (DIS and UN/WN/TLO) -->disabled series WN/TLO ONLY -->wrkg now series Note that Rs initially assigned per Y6(1) to the RETIRED, DISABLED or HOMEMAKER/STUDENT series are redirected from within those series to the WORKING NOW series if the R was also currently working (both series completed if retired or disabled). For this reason, the WORKING NOW series appears last in codebook variables: - V000921-000931 UNEMPLOYED [UN] - V000932-000944 RETIRED [RET] - V000945-000956 PERMANENTLY DISABLED [DIS] - V000957-000967 HOMEMAKER/STUDENT [HM/ST] - V000968-000978 WORKING NOW/TEMP. LAID OFF [WN/TLO] 1. Assigned WORKING NOW series - working now (Y7-Y7j) 2. Assigned WORKING NOW series - temporarily laid off (Y7-Y7j) 3. Assigned UNEMPLOYED series (Y9-Y10h) 4. Assigned RETIRED series (Y11-Y12j) 5. Assigned PERMANENTLY DISABLED series (Y13-Y14j) 6. Assigned HOMEMAKER series (Y15-Y16j) 7. Assigned STUDENT series (Y15-Y16j) 0. NA 0 1 2 3 ----- ----- ----- ----- Count 7 1035 17 59 4 5 6 7 ----- ----- ----- ----- Count 336 74 183 96 ==============================