2017 Spring Life History Mail Survey Occupation and Industry Data

The HRS 2017 Spring Life History Mail Survey (LHMS) contains questions about job history, residential history, education history, and other important childhood and family events. The LHMS is part of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), which is funded under a cooperative agreement between the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan.

To protect the confidentiality of the information that respondents provide, a number of variables have been masked or are simply not included in the final release public file. Some of these variables are available to analysts as restricted data.

The variables in the LHMS 2017 Spring Restricted file are identical to those in the LHMS 2017 Fall Public file except the restricted version of the 2017 Spring Life History Mail Survey includes detailed respondent-level information for type of employer or business, job title and promotion title.

The following variables are available in the restricted file:

2017 LHMS Spring Variable Name Description
LH41_1E TYPE OF EMPLOYER OR BUSINESS - 1
LH41_1F FIRST OR ONLY JOB TITLE – 1
LH41_1FP PROMOTION TITLE - 1
LH41_2E TYPE OF EMPLOYER OR BUSINESS - 2
LH41_2F FIRST OR ONLY JOB TITLE - 2
LH41_2FP PROMOTION TITLE - 2
LH41_3E TYPE OF EMPLOYER OR BUSINESS - 3
LH41_3F FIRST OR ONLY JOB TITLE - 3
LH41_3FP PROMOTION TITLE - 3
LH41_4E TYPE OF EMPLOYER OR BUSINESS - 4
LH41_4F FIRST OR ONLY JOB TITLE - 4
LH41_4FP PROMOTION TITLE - 4
LH41_5E TYPE OF EMPLOYER OR BUSINESS - 5
LH41_5F FIRST OR ONLY JOB TITLE - 5
LH41_5FP PROMOTION TITLE - 5
LH41_6E TYPE OF EMPLOYER OR BUSINESS - 6
LH41_6F FIRST OR ONLY JOB TITLE - 6
LH41_6FP PROMOTION TITLE - 6
LH41_7E TYPE OF EMPLOYER OR BUSINESS - 7
LH41_7F FIRST OR ONLY JOB TITLE - 7
LH41_7FP PROMOTION TITLE - 7
LH41_8E TYPE OF EMPLOYER OR BUSINESS - 8
LH41_8F FIRST OR ONLY JOB TITLE - 8
LH41_8FP PROMOTION TITLE - 8
LH41_9E TYPE OF EMPLOYER OR BUSINESS - 9
LH41_9F FIRST OR ONLY JOB TITLE - 9
LH41_9FP PROMOTION TITLE - 9
LH41_10E TYPE OF EMPLOYER OR BUSINESS - 10
LH41_10F FIRST OR ONLY JOB TITLE - 10
LH41_10FP PROMOTION TITLE - 10
LH45 (MOST IMPORTANT) JOB TITLE
LH46 (MOST IMPORTANT) TYPE OF EMPLOYER OR BUSINESS

The field period for the 2017 Spring LHMS was June 2017 through December 2017. The data file for the 2017 Spring LHMS contains 539 variables, and data for 3,848 respondents. The simple response rate for the 2017 Spring LHMS is 74 percent.

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Latest Release January 2023 (Final v1.0)
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