Worker Classify Survey OMBQ's 4-24-14 final

Memorandum

Social and Economic Policy

Date	April 24, 2014
To	Jonathan Simonetta, DOL
From	Jacob Klerman, Alyssa Pozniak, Krista Olson, Abt and Kelly Daley and Julie Pacer, Abt SRBI
Subject	Abt’s Response to OMB’s 4/21/14 Comments

Thank you for forwarding the additional set of comments prepared by OMB in their continued review of the WORKER CLASSIFICATION SURVEY. As you requested, we have prepared the following memo with our response.

The OMB requested that additional industry and occupation categories be added to the coding scheme. These changes affect two survey questions: QINDUSTRY_CODE and QOCCUP_CODE. Abt will make the suggested changes in the coding scheme; that is, we will have 17 categories instead of 12 categories for industry (QINDUSTRY_CODE), and 27 categories instead of 24 categories for occupation (QOCCUP_CODE). The OMB-suggested categories for Industry and Occupation that we will use in the survey are presented Tables 1 and 2, respectively.

Complying with OMB’s proposed changes to the industry and occupation codes will result in a small increase in the budget. The interviewer training provided by Abt SRBI will be slightly longer and some interviews will be longer to better probe for the specified industries and occupations Nonetheless, it is important to note that our overall approach to the coding operation will remain unchanged. Specifically, the interviewer will record the respondent’s answer verbatim and also apply a code for both industry and occupation. This remains consistent with our earlier discussions where we agreed that it would not be a prudent use of project resources to engage a professional coding operation. Given the (apparently) low prevalence of worker misclassification, it appears unlikely that we will have adequate statistical power to detect anything but the largest plausible differences across industry, occupation, or other subgroup classifications (see also 2/27/14 memo).Finally, the Public Use File delivered to DOL will include the verbatim responses although any identifying information about individuals or firms will be removed.

Table 1. Revised Industry categories for the worker classification survey.

Survey Variable: QINDUSTRY_CODE		Census Industry 2012	NAICS 2012
1	Construction	0770	23
2	Computer and electronic product manufacturing (e.g., computers, video equipment, navigational instruments)	3365	334
3	Business to business electronic markets	Part of 4585	42511
4	Electronics stores (e.g., selling computers, games, cameras)	4795	443142
5	Internet publishing and broadcasting and web search portals	6672	51913
6	Telecommunications (e.g., carriers, satellite, resellers)	6680, 6690	517
7	Computer systems design and related services (e.g., information technology)	7380	5415
8	Management, scientific, and technical consulting services	7390	5416
9	Transportation (e.g., air, bus service, pipeline, postal service)	6070-6380	48-492
10	Services to buildings and dwellings (e.g., cleaning, except related to construction)	7690	5617 exc. 56173
11	Landscaping services	7770	56173
12	Home health care services	8170	6216
13	Child day care services	8470	6244
14	Private household services	9290	814
15	Food services and drinking places	8680-8690	722
16	Personal care services (e.g., Barber shops, Beauty salons, Nail salons)	8970-8990	8121
17	OTHER
	Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing, and Hunting, and Mining	0170-0490	11-21
	Utilities	0570-0690	22
	All other manufacturing	1070-3990 exc. 3365-3390	31-33 exc. 334
	All other wholesale trade	4070-4590 exc. Part 4585	42 ex. 42511
	All other retail trade	4670-5790 exc. 4795	44-45 exc. 443142
	Warehousing and Storage	6390	493
	All other information	6470-6780 exc. 6672, 6680-6690	51 exc. 51913, 517
	Finance and Insurance, Real Estate, and Rental and Leasing	6870-7190	52-53
	Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services	7270-7490 exc. 7380, 7390	54 exc. 5415, 5416
	Management of companies and enterprises	7570	55
	All other administrative and support and waste management and remediation services	7580-7790, exc. 7690, 7770	56 exc. 5617
	Educational services	7860-7890	61
	All other health care and social assistance	7970-8470 exc. 8170, 8470	62 exc. 6216, 6244
	Arts, entertainment, and recreation	8560-8590	71
	All other accommodation and food services	8660-8670	72 exc. 722
	All other services and Public administration	8770-9590 exc. 8970-8990, 9290	81-92 exc. 8121, 814
	Military	9670-9870	928110
98	DK
99	REF

Table 2. Revised Occupation categories for the worker classification survey.

QOCCUP_CODE		Census Code	SOC 2010
1	Business and financial operations (e.g., agents, claims adjusters, human resources workers, fundraisers)	0500-0950	13-0000
2	Computer and mathematical occupations	1000-1240	15-0000
3	Architecture and engineering occupations	1300-1560	17-0000
4	Life, physical, and social science occupations	1600-1965	19-0000
5	Postsecondary teachers	2200	25-1000
6	Preschool and kindergarten teachers	2300	25-2010
7	Elementary, middle school, and secondary school teachers	2310, 2320	25-2020--25-2030
8	Special education teachers	2330	25-2050
9	Other teachers and instructors	2340	25-3000
10	Teacher assistants	2540	25-9041
11	Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations	2600-2960	27-0000
12	Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides	3600	31-1010
13	Massage therapists	3630	31-9011
14	Security guards and gaming surveillance officers	3930	33-9030
15	Food preparation and serving related occupations (e.g., cooks, bartenders, waiters)	4000-4160	35-000
16	Building grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (e.g., janitors, maids, grounds maintenance, indoor landscaper)	4200-4250	37-000
17	Barbers, Hairdressers, cosmetologists, miscellaneous personal appearance, first line supervisors of personal service workers	4320, 4500-4520	39-1021, 39-5011--39-5090
18	Childcare workers	4600	39-9011
19	Financial clerks (e.g., bill collectors, billing clerk,, bookkeeping clerk,)	5100-5130	43-3000
20	Farming, fishing and forestry occupations	6005-6130	45-0000
21	Construction occupations (e.g., carpenter, carpet installer, first-line supervisor of construction trades)	6200-6765	47-1011--47-4090
22	Extraction occupations (e.g., earth drillers, rotary drill operators)	6800-6940	47-5000
23	Telecommunications line installers and repairers	7420	49-9052
24	All other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations	7000-7630 exc. 7420	49-0000 exc. 49-9052
25	Taxi drivers and chauffeurs	9140	53-3041
26	Laborers and material movers, by Hand (e.g., cleaners of vehicles, freight movers, machine feeders, packagers)	9610-9640	53-7060
27	OTHER
	Management occupations (e.g., CEO, financial managers, education administrators, computer and information systems managers)	0010-0430	11-0000
	Community and Social Service occupations	2000-2060	21-0000
	Legal occupations (e.g., lawyers, paralegals)	2100-2160	23-0000
	All other education, training, and library occupations	2400-2440, 2550	25-4000, 25-9000 exc. 25-9041
	Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations	3000-3540	29-0000
	All other Healthcare support occupations	3600-3655, exc. 3600, 3630	31-0000 exc. 31-1010, 31-9011
	All other protective service occupations	3700-3955 exc. 3930	33-0000 exc. 33-9030
	All other personal care and service occupations	4300-4650, exc. 4320, 4500-4520, 4600	39-0000, exc. 39-1021, 39-5011--39-5090, 39-9011
	Sales and related occupations	4700-4965	41-0000
	All other Office and administrative support occupations	5000-5940, exc. 5100-5130	43-0000, exc. 43-3000
	Production occupations	7700-8965	51-0000
	All other Transportation occupations	9000-9420, exc. 9140	53-1000--53-6000 exc. 53-3041
	All other Material moving occupations	9500-9750, ex. 9610-9640	53-7000 exc. 53-7060
	Military specific occupations (e.g., armored assault vehicle officers)	9800-9830	55-0000
98	DK
99	REF