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Big-Life-Lab / cchsflow

Variable transformation and harmonization for the Canadian Community Health Survey
https://big-life-lab.github.io/cchsflow/
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New variable request: Occupation #54

Closed DougManuel closed 3 years ago

DougManuel commented 4 years ago

Assess how feasible occupation can be added to cchsflow.

wyusuf068 commented 4 years ago

Occupation is a single variable available in CCHS 2001 and CCHS cycles 2007-2014.

2001 variable has 9 distinct categories, while variables from 2007-2014 have 5 distinct categories that are consistent.

yulric commented 4 years ago

The attached document has categories for various occupations groups in CCHS along with Xs to indicate which category was included in a cycle. The column name also includes the name of the variable for that cycle along with the sample size number for the people who answered the question.

Occupation Harmonization.xlsx

I think we should create a 9 category variable for which for CCHS 2001. We could also create a 5 category variable for the other cycles but the category values are not completely equivalent.

DougManuel commented 4 years ago

Here is a paper that harmonized occupation CCHS data from 2001 to 2014. See table 3. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6423929/

Looks like there is code that describes how recoding was performed.

Table 1 is a nice summary of variables available across CCHS surveys.

DougManuel commented 4 years ago

@yulric I agree with your suggestion: Two variables:

DougManuel commented 4 years ago

From https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6423929/, may be helpful to include: