For some people, a problem in the survey instrument involving the translation of the starting and ending dates of their jobs and businesses into a weeks-worked pattern, may have adversely affected the data for the following variables and recodes, which depend upon this pattern:

For example, in Wave 5 Rotation 2, people with jobs or businesses starting in May 2002 were mistakenly assigned RMESR > 5 (no job in May 2002) and RMHRSWK = 0 (did not work in May 2002), even though most of them have earnings from a job/business for that month (note that some people have legitimate zero earnings in the month that a job starts because of a lag in the time of their initial receipt of wages).

Problem cases can be identified as follows:

Wave 1 Rotation 3 

Jobs:
SROTATON=3
and ((01/01/01 le ESJDATE le 01/31/01) or (02/01/01 le ESJDATE le 02/28/01) or 
(03/01/01 le ESJDATE le 03/31/01) or (01/01/01 le EEJDATE le 01/31/01) or
(02/01/01 le EEJDATE le 02/28/01) or (03/01/01 le EEJDATE le 03/31/01)) 
Businesses:
SROTATON=3
and ((01/01/01 le ESBDATE le 01/31/01) or (02/01/01 le ESBDATE le 02/28/01) or 
(03/01/01 le ESBDATE le 03/31/01) or (01/01/01 le EEBDATE le 01/31/01) or
(02/01/01 le EEBDATE le 02/28/01) or (03/01/01 le EEBDATE le 03/31/01))

Wave 4 Rotation 3 

Jobs:
SROTATON=3
and ((01/01/02 le ESJDATE le 01/31/02) or (02/01/02 le ESJDATE le 02/28/02) or 
(03/01/02 le ESJDATE le 03/31/02) or (01/01/02 le EEJDATE le 01/31/02) or
(02/01/02 le EEJDATE le 02/28/02) or (03/01/02 le EEJDATE le 03/31/02)) 
Businesses:
SROTATON=3
and ((01/01/02 le ESBDATE le 01/31/02) or (02/01/02 le ESBDATE le 02/28/02) or 
(03/01/02 le ESBDATE le 03/31/02) or (01/01/02 le EEBDATE le 01/31/02) or
(02/01/02 le EEBDATE le 02/28/02) or (03/01/02 le EEBDATE le 03/31/02))

Wave 5 Rotation 2

Jobs:
SROTATON=2
and ((05/01/02 le ESJDATE le 05/31/02) or (05/01/02 le EEJDATE le 05/31/02))
Businesses: 
SROTATON=2
and ((05/01/02 le ESBDATE le 05/31/02) or (05/01/02 le EEBDATE le 05/31/02))

Wave 6 Rotation 2 

Jobs:
SROTATON=2
and ((09/01/02 le ESJDATE le 09/30/02) or (09/01/02 le EEJDATE le 09/30/02))
Businesses: 
SROTATON=2
and ((09/01/02 le ESBDATE le 09/30/02) or (09/01/02 le EEBDATE le 09/30/02))

Wave 9 Rotation 2 

Jobs:
SROTATON=2
and ((09/01/03 le ESJDATE le 09/30/03) or (09/01/03 le EEJDATE le 09/30/03))
Businesses: 
SROTATON=2
and ((09/01/03 le ESBDATE le 09/30/03) or (09/01/03 le EEBDATE le 09/30/03))

If this problem affects your analysis, the following options are recommended:

1. Exclude these cases from the analysis,

or

2. Create new recodes or individually correct the variables/recodes for the cases affected by this problem by using the edited values for the starting and ending dates of their jobs and businesses.