The Life History Mail Survey 2019 Spring (LHMS 2019 Spring) contains questions about residential, education, employment and health 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 names of variables that were masked for confidentiality end in the capital letter "M".
The variables in the LHMS 2019 Spring Restricted file are identical to those in the LHMS 2019 Spring Public file except for the following variables that include detailed respondent-level information for industry and occupation:
| 2019 LHMS Spring Variable Name | Description |
|---|---|
| LH41_1E | FIRST OR ONLY TYPE BUSINESS - 1 |
| LH41_1EL | LAST JOB TYPE BUSINESS - 1 |
| LH41_1F | FIRST OR ONLY JOB TITLE – 1 |
| LH41_1FL | LAST JOB TITLE – 1 |
| LH41_2E | FIRST OR ONLY TYPE BUSINESS - 2 |
| LH41_2EL | LAST JOB TYPE BUSINESS - 2 |
| LH41_2F | FIRST OR ONLY JOB TITLE – 2 |
| LH41_2FL | LAST JOB TITLE – 2 |
| LH41_3E | FIRST OR ONLY TYPE BUSINESS - 3 |
| LH41_3EL | LAST JOB TYPE BUSINESS - 3 |
| LH41_3F | FIRST OR ONLY JOB TITLE – 3 |
| LH41_3FL | LAST JOB TITLE – 3 |
| LH41_4E | FIRST OR ONLY TYPE BUSINESS - 4 |
| LH41_4EL | LAST JOB TYPE BUSINESS - 4 |
| LH41_4F | FIRST OR ONLY JOB TITLE – 4 |
| LH41_4FL | LAST JOB TITLE – 4 |
| LH41_5E | FIRST OR ONLY TYPE BUSINESS - 5 |
| LH41_5EL | LAST JOB TYPE BUSINESS - 5 |
| LH41_5F | FIRST OR ONLY JOB TITLE – 5 |
| LH41_5FL | LAST JOB TITLE – 5 |
| LH41_6E | FIRST OR ONLY TYPE BUSINESS - 6 |
| LH41_6EL | LAST JOB TYPE BUSINESS - 6 |
| LH41_6F | FIRST OR ONLY JOB TITLE – 6 |
| LH41_6FL | LAST JOB TITLE – 6 |
| LH41_7E | FIRST OR ONLY TYPE BUSINESS - 7 |
| LH41_7EL | LAST JOB TYPE BUSINESS - 7 |
| LH41_7F | FIRST OR ONLY JOB TITLE – 7 |
| LH41_7FL | LAST JOB TITLE – 7 |
| LH41_8E | FIRST OR ONLY TYPE BUSINESS - 8 |
| LH41_8EL | LAST JOB TYPE BUSINESS - 8 |
| LH41_8F | FIRST OR ONLY JOB TITLE – 8 |
| LH41_8FL | LAST JOB TITLE – 8 |
| LH41_9E | FIRST OR ONLY TYPE BUSINESS - 9 |
| LH41_9EL | LAST JOB TYPE BUSINESS - 9 |
| LH41_9F | FIRST OR ONLY JOB TITLE – 9 |
| LH41_9FL | LAST JOB TITLE – 9 |
| LH41_10E | FIRST OR ONLY TYPE BUSINESS - 10 |
| LH41_10EL | LAST JOB TYPE BUSINESS – 10 |
| LH41_10F | FIRST OR ONLY JOB TITLE – 10 |
| LH41_10FL | LAST JOB TITLE – 10 |
| LH45 | (MOST IMPORTANT) JOB TITLE |
| LH46 | (MOST IMPORTANT) TYPE OF EMPLOYER OR BUSINESS |
The field period for the LHMS 2019 Spring was June 2019 through December 2019. The data file contains 593 variables and data for 1,748 respondents.
Product Details
| N | 1,748 |
|---|---|
| Product Type | Industry/Occupation |
| Entry Cohort Info | All |
| Latest Release | October 2023 (v2.0) |
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