Survey Topics

  • Employment 
    • Current employment status in past 7 days 
    • Number of jobs in past 7 & 30 days, hours & weeks worked in year 
    • Among non-working: job seeking, availability/desire to work, time since last worked 
    • For main job & second job (past week OR past 30 days): 
      • Occupation, industry, job tenure 
      • Employment arrangements: how employed/paid/contingent employment 
      • Self-employment status 
      • Payment methods, tax reporting 
      • App-based work 
      • Potential independent contractor misclassification 
      • Employment agency or contract work 
      • Job characteristics 
      • Physical demands 
      • Psychosocial demands, workplace surveillance, bullying 
      • Shifts, flexibility, work from home 
      • Sick pay, pension, health benefits, union contract 
    • Employment history: 
      • Displacement in past 3 years 
      • Occupation/industry/tenure of longest-held job 
      • Time out of workforce 
      • Experience of employment discrimination 
  • Health 
    • General physical and mental health status; activity limitations 
    • Pain and other physical symptoms 
    • Experience of stress 
    • Chronic illness battery 
    • Workplace injury 
    • Health behaviors: smoking, alcohol, exercise 
    • Height and weight 
    • Health insurance status 
  • Sociodemographic and Financial Well-being 
    • Age (18-70) and gender 
    • Race and ethnicity 
    • Marital status and household size/composition 
    • Education of self and partner 
    • Household income and federal poverty status 
    • Individual earnings, sources of income, benefits 
    • Home ownership & homelessness 
    • Financial stability 
    • Caregiving responsibilities, paid and unpaid