1975 Employer Characteristics

This data file contains company characteristics for current or last job that the original sample member held in the five years preceding and including 1975. This file only contains records for those who responded to the 1975 survey and who had a job sometime up to and including five years before the 1975 survey. n= 7801

This data file contains company characteristics for current or last job that the original sample member held in the five years preceding and including 1975. This file only contains records for those who responded to the 1975 survey and who had a job sometime up to and including five years before the 1975 survey. n= 7801

1975_Employer_Characteristics_Documentation

Area Resource File

The basic county-specific Area Resource File (ARF) is the nucleus of the overall ARF System. It is a database containing more than 6,000 variables for each of the nation's counties. ARF contains information on health facilities, health professions, measures of resource scarcity, health status, economic activity, health training programs, and socioeconomic and environmental characteristics. In addition, the basic file contains geographic codes and descriptors which enable it to be linked to many other files and to aggregate counties into various geographic groupings. Please see arfsys.com for details regarding the ARF data.

The basic county-specific Area Resource File (ARF) is the nucleus of the overall ARF System. It is a database containing more than 6,000 variables for each of the nation’s counties. ARF contains information on health facilities, health professions, measures of resource scarcity, health status, economic activity, health training programs, and socioeconomic and environmental characteristics. In addition, the basic file contains geographic codes and descriptors which enable it to be linked to many other files and to aggregate counties into various geographic groupings. Please see https://data.hrsa.gov/topics/health-workforce/ahrf for details regarding the ARF data.

Area Resource File

Change Notice #48

November 7, 2024. The WLS 15.1 dataset is now available.

New/Updated Measures

  • ILIAD Time 2 Short interview data (R08)
    • Our second round of ILIAD, and our eighth round of the WLS, has new data from 2,610 grad participants and 1,258 sibling participants. The released data include the Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status (TICSm) battery that is used to screen participants into a longer cognitive assessment.  We plan to include the results of the longer cognitive assessment in the next release in 2025.  With a few exceptions the Time 2 Instrument is identical to the Instrument we used at Time 1. Here is a summary of what is included in this new release.
      • New: Occurrence of and Experience with Covid diagnosis
      • Repeated Digit Ordering Task
      • Repeated Interviewer observations and characteristics
      • Repeated Letter Fluency
      • Repeated Number Series Task
      • Repeated Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status (TICSm)
      • Update of experiences of Depression
      • Update of Marriage and Cohabiting status
      • Update of self-reported health, functional health, and health conditions
  • Updated Mortality Status and Cause of Death

Corrections

  • Corrections to R05 Marital Status
    • We discovered an error in our measures of marital status for R05 (gc001re and cc001re).  These measures were coded as “separated” but now they are marked as “not ascertained.”
  • Corrections to R06 Interviewer Observations
    • We discovered an error in two of the interviewer observation measures in the R06 round.

 

Starting with the 15.1 data we are only releasing a Stata Data-file (.dta).  Users can import these data into alternative programs as needed.

 

 

Female Grads’ Job Characteristics

The data in this module was constructed by Jennifer Sheridan for her 1996 master's thesis.
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THIS MODULE HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED WITH THE 1990 OCCUPATION CODES AND DOES NOT REFLECT CORRECTIONS OF ERRORS LOCATED DURING THE 09/2000 UPDATE.

The data in this module was constructed by Jennifer Sheridan for her 1996 master’s thesis.
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THIS MODULE HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED WITH THE 1990 OCCUPATION CODES AND DOES NOT REFLECT CORRECTIONS OF ERRORS LOCATED DURING THE 09/2000 UPDATE.

Female_Grad_Job_History_Documentation

Forms of WLS Data

Describes the differences between the original wide version of the data file and the long version.

Forms_of_WLS_Data Describes the differences between the original wide version of the data file and the long version.