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Description Derivation and details of construction Variable
name in
data
Work limited by Work limited by health, dummy with value of 1 if work restricted by Health84
health in 1984 health in type or amount.
Time varying ‘Work limited by health’, takes the values as above, for health
Partner’s
employment in 1984
Children in 1984
Past work experience
to 1984
each later survey year 1985, 1986.
Spouse employed if living in household, 1984 survey. Dummy with
value 1 if employed, 0 otherwise.
Time varying dummy for Spouse employed if living in household.
Takes the values as above, for each later survey year 1985, 1986
Own children living in household, 1984 survey.
Also the interaction term ch84fem, where gender interacted with
children female with child84.
Time varying dummy. Takes the values as above, for each later survey
year 1985, 1986
Length of longest recorded job/business held up to the first interview
in 1984. Includes jobs or self-employment spells. A set of dummies
with value of 1 for work where, longj0, for less than 1 year; longj1 for
1 year to less than 2 years; longj2 for 2 years to less than 3 years;
longj3p for 3 or more years; longjno for never had a job/business.
Spemp84
spemp
Child84,
Ch84fem
Child,
childfem
Longj0,
Longj1,
long j2,
longj3p,
long jno.
Employment
outcome
Ever studying fulltime
Referrals
Other programme
participation
Proportion of time
spent unemployed in
1984 survey
reference period,
prior to June 1984
Those not in FTED
ALS List sample
Data syntax editors
Employed in an unsubsidised, non-government programme job, at any
time during the 1986 wave. This includes ‘retained’ jobs that were
initially subsidised during 1984/85, excluding the first 17 weeks of
their duration.
A dummy taking the value 1 if studying full-time in any wave up to
that point, and also if ever studying full-time in the final wave.
Referred to a Community Employment Programme place by the CES
in 1984/1985
Go on other government programme in 1984 or 1985, after 3 June
1984.
Government programme job in 1986
Constructed from the calendar, where number of weeks unemployed to
June 1984 is converted to a proportion of the time period, which is the
reference period in 1984 survey. The reference period in the 1984
survey started 1 January 1984 OR the week in which entered the labour
force if later.
This variable identifies panel entry and exit, and when they leave fulltime
education, for example those in school or aged 25+ when
interviewed in first wave. A value of zero means they are not observed
to leave FTED, ‘84’ they had left FTED when observed in the 1984
survey, and similarly for the later survey years. So those with value
‘84’ have left FTED, and this is one of the exclusions used for the
analytical selection – only those with enteryr=84 are used, ie. Only
those who had left FTED.
Mcrae, I.; Parkinson, G.; Woyzbun, L. (1984-1987) Australian
Longitudinal Survey Waves 1 to 4, Level 1. Principal Investigators:
Mcrae, I.; Parkinson, G.; Woyzbun, L.; Data collected by Roy Morgan
Research Centre, Canberra. Ian Mcrae, Bureau of Labour Market
Research, [producer], Canberra. Social Science Data Archives, The
Australian National University, Canberra [distributor].
npjob18
stever
Cepref84
gpoth
Gpjob86
upropjn
enteryr
SSDA
study
numbers
377, 410,
420, 491.
The authors of the syntax used to the derive the variables were Lorraine Dearden,
Alex Heath, Henry Overman, James Richardson, and the syntax they wrote takes the
ALS original SPSS files through extensive STATA processing.