Includes up to 5 jobs and/or businesses per respondent with up to 2 spells of work for each job.
Question wording for occupation and industry topics did not change compared to SIPP 2008.
SIPP- EHC 2011
Includes up to 7 jobs and/or businesses per respondent with up to 2 spells of work for each job.
Question wording for occupation and industry topics did not change.
Industry questions were asked only for the first spell of each job/business (To reduce respondent burden).
Occupation questions continued to be asked for each spell of each job/business (To help track promotions and within job occupation changes).
This evaluation compares the industry, occupation, and class of worker distributions provided by the 2010 and 2011 SIPP-EHC field tests with the distributions of these variables in the SIPP 2008 survey (waves 5 and 7) and the American Community Survey.
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