GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS – QUALITY OF WORKING LIFE MODULE 1972-2014: CUMULATIVE CODEBOOK JUNE 2017 ii TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ....................................................................................................................................................................... iii Index to Data Set .............................................................................................................................................................. 1 1972-2014 Surveys Quality of Working Life Variables and Other Variables of Interest .......................................... 13 Appendix I: Variables by Year ..................................................................................................................................... 281 iii INTRODUCTION In 2000, the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) entered into an interagency agreement with the National Science Foundation to add a special module assessing the quality of work life in America to the 2002 General Social Survey. The General Social Survey is a biennial, nationally representative, personal interview survey of U.S. households conducted by the National Opinion Research Center and mainly funded by the National Science Foundation. Using a small group process with internal and external expert teams, NIOSH selected 76 questions dealing with a wide assortment of work organization issues. These include (but are not limited to) hours of work, workload, worker autonomy, layoffs and job security, job satisfaction/stress, and worker well-being. Half of the questions in the Quality of Working Life module were taken directly from the 1977 Quality of Employment Survey, allowing comparisons of worker responses over a 25-year period. The primary goals of the Quality of Working Life module are to measure how work life and the work experience have changed since the earlier Quality of Employment Surveys and to establish benchmarks for future surveys. Secondary goals include measuring the relationship between job/organizational characteristics and worker health and safety and identifying targets for health and safety preventive interventions. DATA The General Social Surveys have been conducted during February, March, and April of 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2014. For the Quality of Working Life Dataset, only respondents who were currently working full-time, part-time, or temporarily not at work were eligible for inclusion. This was measured using the GSS variable WRKSTAT. There are a total of 36,805 completed interviews (909 in 1972, 816 in 1973, 789 in 1974, 793 in 1975, 778 in 1976, 921 in 1977, 894 in 1978, 859 in 1980, 1,065 in 1982, 945 in 1983, 913 in 1984, 951 in 1985, 875 in 1986, 1,154 in 1987, 925 in 1988, 954 in 1989, 877 in 1990, 912 in 1991, 1,009 in 1993, 1,969 in 1994, 2,003 in 1996, 1,918 in 1998, 1,890 in 2000, 1,796 in 2002, 1,866 in 2004, 2,852 in 2006, 1,267 in 2008, 1,184 in 2010, 1,178 in 2012, and 1,543 in 2014). Each survey from 1972 to 2004 was an independently drawn sample of English-speaking persons 18 years of age or over, living in non-institutional arrangements within the United States. Starting in 2006 Spanish-speakers were added to the target population. Block quota sampling was used in 1972, 1973, and 1974 surveys and for half of the 1975 and 1976 surveys. Full probability sampling was employed in half of the 1975 and 1976 surveys and the 1977, 1978, 1980, 1982-1991, 1993-1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2014 surveys. Also, the 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014 surveys had sub-sampled non-respondents (see Appendix A of the GSS Cumulative Codebook for documentation). The data from the interviews were processed according to standard NORC procedures. This cumulative data set merges all 4 rounds of the Quality of Working Life module, as well as other variables of interest from 1972-2014. Each year can be taken as a subfile, although only 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014 contain the complete Quality of Working Life variables. This simplifies the use of the QWL for both trend analysis and pooling. This data set is derived from the GSS Cumulative Datafile, and thus contains several items which are not asked as part of the questionnaire but instead created in the production of the datafile. Additionally, this datafile contains several items never before available, recodes specified by NIOSH and created by NORC staff. To facilitate the use of the codebook, several terms must be explained. The abbreviation "R," which appears throughout the text and appendices, stands for "respondent." The format which we have used in the text of the codebook is as follows: iv The format includes the question exactly as it appears in the questionnaire. For those few questions that were recoded, the symbol [RECODE] appears immediately after the question. "[VAR: HEALTH]" refers to the variable name. A mnemonic was assigned to each question to promote standardization in the use of General Social Survey variable names and also to meet the historical eight character limitation imposed by some computer software systems (e.g., SPSS). Under the heading "RESPONSE," all possible answers to the questions are listed. The questionnaire contains three alternate forms of response as follows: (1) the answers were read to the respondent (if they were included in the question); (2) answers were presented to the respondent on a card (indicated by interviewer instructions); or (3) answers were marked by the interviewer to best correspond to the answer of the respondent (also indicated by interviewer instructions). The term "PUNCH" represents the code or numerical value which was assigned to each response. These are the numbers that the user will find punched in the columns. The frequency of occurrence of each of the punch values appears in the next four columns. The combined marginals across the surveys are in the last column headed "ALL." In most cases, the marginal distributions for all punches are given in the text. For a small number of variables--the two-or-more-column variables--frequencies or marginal distributions appear in the appendices. Responses are mutually exclusive (i.e., only one code can appear for each respondent for each question). The first column under "YEAR," 1972-1982, gives the combined totals for the 1972-1982 cross-sections. In the second column, 1982B, the counts for the 1982 black oversample appear. Blacks who were part of the regular 1982 sample are not part of these figures. The third column, 1983-1987, gives the combined totals for 1983-1987. The fourth column, 1987B, contains the counts for the 1987 black oversample. The fifth column, 1988-1991, gives the combined totals for 1988-1991. The sixth column, 1993-98, gives the combined totals for 1993-98. The seventh column, 2000, contains the counts for the 2000 survey. The eighth column, 2002, contains the counts for the 2002 survey. The ninth column, 2004, contains the counts for the 2004 survey. The tenth column, 2006, contains the counts for the 2006 survey. The eleventh column, 2008, contains the counts for the 2008 survey. The twelfth column, 2010, contains the counts for the 2010 survey. The thirteenth column, 2012, contains the counts for the 2012 survey. The fourteenth column, 2014, contains the counts for the 2014 survey. Lastly, the fifteenth column, ALL, contains the total for the preceding fourteen columns. For a discussion of the use of the black oversample see Appendix A of the GSS Cumulative Codebook. To determine what years or surveys a variable appeared in see Appendix I, beginning on page 281. INDEX TO DATA SET (by Codebook Order) Mnemonic Mnemonic description YEAR GSS YEAR FOR THIS RESPONDENT ID RESPONDNT ID NUMBER WRKSTAT LABOR FORCE STATUS HRS1 NUMBER OF HOURS WORKED LAST WEEK HRS2 NUMBER OF HOURS USUALLY WORK A WEEK WRKSLF R SELF-EMP OR WORKS FOR SOMEBODY WRKGOVT GOVT OR PRIVATE EMPLOYEE OCC80 RS CENSUS OCCUPATION CODE (1980) PRESTG80 RS OCCUPATIONAL PRESTIGE SCORE (1980) INDUS80 RS INDUSTRY CODE (1980) OCC10 RS CENSUS OCCUPATION CODE (2010) INDUS10 RS INDUSTRY CODE (NAICS 2007) MARITAL MARITAL STATUS DIVORCE EVER BEEN DIVORCED OR SEPARATED WIDOWED EVER BEEN WIDOWED SPWRKSTA SPOUSE LABOR FORCE STATUS SPHRS1 NUMBER OF HRS SPOUSE WORKED LAST WEEK SPHRS2 NO. OF HRS SPOUSE USUALLY WORKS A WEEK SPEVWORK SPOUSE EVER WORK AS LONG AS A YEAR SPWRKSLF SPOUSE SELF-EMP. OR WORKS FOR SOMEBODY SPOCC80 SPOUSE CENSUS OCCUPATION CODE (1980) SPPRES80 SPOUSES OCCUPATIONAL PRESTIGE SCORE (1980) SPIND80 SPOUSES INDUSTRY CODE (1980) SPOCC10 SPOUSE CENSUS OCCUPATION CODE (2010) SPIND10 SPOUSES INDUSTRY CODE (NAICS 2007) PAWRKSLF FATHER SELF-EMP. OR WORKED FOR SOMEBODY PAOCC80 FATHERS CENSUS OCCUPATION CODE (1980) PAPRES80 FATHERS OCCUPATIONAL PRESTIGE SCORE (1980) PAIND80 FATHERS INDUSTRY CODE (1980) PAOCC10 FATHERS CENSUS OCCUPATION CODE (2010) PAIND10 FATHERS INDUSTRY CODE (2010) MAOCC80 MOTHERS CENSUS OCCUPATION CODE (1980) MAPRES80 MOTHERS OCCUPATIONAL PRESTIGE SCORE (1980) MAWRKSLF MOTHER SELF-EMP. OR WORKED FOR SOMEBODY MAIND80 MOTHERS INDUSTRY CODE (1980) MAOCC10 MOTHERS CENSUS OCCUPATION CODE (2010) MAIND10 MOTHERS INDUSTRY CODE (NAICS 2007) SIBS NUMBER OF BROTHERS AND SISTERS CHILDS NUMBER OF CHILDREN AGE AGE OF RESPONDENT AGEKDBRN R'S AGE WHEN 1ST CHILD BORN EDUC HIGHEST YEAR OF SCHOOL COMPLETED PAEDUC HIGHEST YEAR SCHOOL COMPLETED, FATHER MAEDUC HIGHEST YEAR SCHOOL COMPLETED, MOTHER