The 2019 Fall Life History Mail Survey (2019 Fall LHMS) 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 2019 Fall LHMS long version Restricted file are identical to those in the 2019 Fall LHMS long version Public file except for the following variables that include detailed respondent-level information for industry and occupation:
| 2019 Fall LHMS 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 2019 Fall Long LHMS was October 2019 through March 2020. The data file contains 589 variables and data for 1,434 respondents.
Product Details
| N | 1,434 |
|---|---|
| Product Type | Industry/Occupation |
| Latest Release | October (v1) |
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