The American Working Conditions Survey Data

Codebook and Data Description

Nicole Maestas, Kathleen J. Mullen, David Powell, Till von Wachter, Jeffrey B. Wenger

ToolPublished Aug 14, 2017

This codebook describes the content and structure of the American Working Conditions Survey data (AWCS) which was fielded on the RAND American Life Panel (ALP) in 2015. The main purpose of the AWCS is to collect detailed information on a broad range of working conditions in the American workplace. This codebook is for an analysis dataset created from the raw data. Due to the complexity of the survey design (randomized question ordering, complex skip patterns etc.) we are providing an analysis data set that includes recoded variables, data labels, and value labels as well as variable notes.

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Maestas, Nicole, Kathleen J. Mullen, David Powell, Till von Wachter, and Jeffrey B. Wenger, The American Working Conditions Survey Data: Codebook and Data Description, RAND Corporation, TL-269-APSF, 2017. As of October 5, 2024: https://www.rand.org/pubs/tools/TL269.html
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Maestas, Nicole, Kathleen J. Mullen, David Powell, Till von Wachter, and Jeffrey B. Wenger, The American Working Conditions Survey Data: Codebook and Data Description. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2017. https://www.rand.org/pubs/tools/TL269.html.
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