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.
Product Details
| N | 3,848 |
|---|---|
| Product Type | Industry/Occupation |
| Entry Cohort Info | All |
| Latest Release | January 2023 (Final v1.0) |
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