Dataset: The Health of Houston Survey 2018 Post-Harvey

Variable emp_10a: Employment status pre-Harvey [S]

Literal Question

EMP_10a.What was your employment status before Hurricane Harvey?

Descriptive Text

The universe for this variable includes all adult respondents age 18 and older whose employment situation changed as a result of Hurricane Harvey. Question asked only to respondents in the post-Harvey sample. NOTE: Any tabulations or analysis including this variable need to be performed using post-Harvey weight (Fnlwgt_post).

Values Categories N NW
1 Employed full-time 268 365,387.1
 67.7%
2 Employed part-time 89 121,193.3
 22.5%
3 Unemployed and currently seeking employment 23 30,276.9
 5.6%
4 Unemployed and not seeking employment 5 7,252.3
 1.3%
5 A student 3 4,230.6
 0.8%
6 Retired 3 4,126.9
 0.8%
7 On disability and can't work 3 3,020.5
 0.6%
8 A homemaker or stay at home parent 5 3,875.6
 0.7%
-9 Don't know/Refuse 19 28,867.9
-8 Not in universe 2567 2,759,240.5

Summary Statistics

Valid cases 399 539363.358
Missing cases 2586 2788108.387
Standard deviation 1.196 1.077
This variable is numeric

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