In November 2022, the Labor Lab launched the California Work and Health Survey (CWHS), a population-based survey of 5,000 working age Californians, focusing on work arrangements, job characteristics, physical and mental health, health behaviors, and financial well-being. For further details about the survey, or to request access to the data (available mid-2023), please contact us at: [email protected].
Questionnaire Outline
Employment
- Current employment status – past 7 days
- Number of jobs in past 7 & 30 days, hours and 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
- Caregiving responsibilities, paid and unpaid
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 spouse/partner)
- Household income and federal poverty status
- Individual earnings, sources of income and benefits
- Home ownership and homelessness
- Financial stability