New variable request: Occupation about cchsflow

[wyusuf068]

Occupation is a single variable available in CCHS 2001 and CCHS cycles 2007-2014.

2001 variable has 9 distinct categories, while variables from 2007-2014 have 5 distinct categories that are consistent.

[yulric]

The attached document has categories for various occupations groups in CCHS along with Xs to indicate which category was included in a cycle. The column name also includes the name of the variable for that cycle along with the sample size number for the people who answered the question.

Occupation Harmonization.xlsx

I think we should create a 9 category variable for which for CCHS 2001. We could also create a 5 category variable for the other cycles but the category values are not completely equivalent.

[DougManuel]

Here is a paper that harmonized occupation CCHS data from 2001 to 2014. See table 3. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6423929/

Looks like there is code that describes how recoding was performed.

Table 1 is a nice summary of variables available across CCHS surveys.

[DougManuel]

@yulric I agree with your suggestion:
Two variables:

• nine categories for 2001.
• 5 categories for 2001 to 2014 (with NA for 2003 and 2005).

[DougManuel]

From https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6423929/, may be helpful to include:

• number of injuries
• Full-time/part-time employment.