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Bjobhist

Record Type BJOBHIST

This Record contains information from the employment history over the period from 1st September
1991 to the date of interview. There is one record for each spell identified at questions J12-J14, with
job characteristic information from questions J16 to J31 appended where relevant.

These records will only exist for respondents whose current labour force spell began after 1.9.1991.
The additional key BJSPNO, identifies the sequence of job spell, with the most recent first.

Derived variables are those from BJHENDD onwards. Where a job is with the same employer as
previously mentioned and/or at the same workplace (BJHSTAT=1), then the values for BJHSIC
BJHSECT and BJHSIZE are copied from the relevant record.

The following variables have all missing data imputed:


    BJHGPAY    BJHNPAY

Volume A contains a full discussion of imputation. Imputation flag variables are listed below.


    BJHGPAYI    BJHNPAYI

The results contained in the following tables are obtained from unweighted data. Volume A contains
a full discussion of the use of the weights contained on this Record Type.