Employment - Subject Baseline

This measure appears in the following time-points: Baseline.

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Related Construct

Employment

Description of Measure

This section includes descriptive items regarding the youth's prior employment experience and several items related to financial responsibility. The items related to financial responsibility were taken from questions asked to make ratings for the Psychopathy Checklist - Youth Version. There are no summary scores calculated. These are all simply individual items about prior work (legal and illegal) and prior examples of financial responsible behavior.

The following items are available for this measure:

Currently employed [s0dem49]

Current job type [s0dem50b]
Whether current job is part of job training program [s0dem50c]
Hours worked per week at current job [s0dem51]
Length of time held current job (in days) [S0NDay]
Hourly wage at current job [s0dem52]

If not currently employed, ever work in the past [s0dem53]
If either currently employed or has worked in the past:

Longest period ever held one job (in days) [S0NDay2]
Job type for job held longest time [s0dem56a]
Number of different jobs ever held [s0dem57]
Whether miss worked/come in late a lot [s0dem59]
Ever been fired [s0dem60]
If fired, how many times [s0dem61]
If fired, age when first fired [s0dem62]
Ever left one job without another lined up [s0dem63]

Currently make money in other ways, including illegally [s0dem64a]

Current way make money in other ways including illegal (most serious type of illegal work) [s0dem64b]
Hours per week doing illegal work [s0dem64c]
Money made per week from illegal work [s0dem65]

If not currently making money in other ways, ever made money in other ways, including illegally [s0dem64d]

Way made money in other ways including illegal (most serious type of illegal work) [s0dem64e]
Longest period of time did illegal work in past (in days) [S0NDay3]
Money made per week doing illegal activities in the past [s0dem64g]

Tell someone you would pay them back but then fail to do so [s0dem68]
Ever had to pay bills [s0dem69]
If ever paid bills, whether ever failed to pay them [s0dem70]
Whether parents/friends helped subject financially [s0dem71]
Ever owed people money and not paid them back [s0dem73]
If so, how many times [s0dem74]

Data Issues

Item s0nday was added to the interview in version 01.02.
Items s0dem50b and s0dem50c were added to the interview in version 01.03.
Items s0dem64d, s0nday3 and s0dem64g were added to the interview in version 01.05.

References

Questions were developed by the Pathways Study investigators.