Cor #307

See COR #335 for the coding of company and industry 
data and all relevant tape information.

The variables created in COR #307 and COR #335 were used 
in the dissertation "The Social Impact of Industrial 
Structure on Working Conditions", 1980.
This COR appears as Appendix A pp.418-421 of Hodson's 
dissertation.


COR #307
Date Begun: 1O/2/78 

RE: Coding name of employer for 1975 follow-up study
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This COR describes the first part of a two part research 
project involving information on employers of the respondents 
in the 1975 follow-up study. The second part, collecting 
financial data on the employer, will be described in a 
subsequent COR.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR CODING COMPANY NAMES
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1.  Pull a file of questionnaires, making sure that it's the next one
    to be pulled.
2. Select the first questionnaire and code "Office Number" from the front upper 
   left hand corner (should be written in red on the questionnaire) into the 
   ID0FO1 space.
3. Turn to page 14 and look at the name of the company for which the person 
   last worked.
4. If this company name and address match with a company name and address 
   already on our alphabetic list of company names (computer printout sheets), 
   code the company code number onto your code sheet and go on to the next 
   questionnaire.
NOTE: It may require some judgment and experience to determine if in fact 
you have a positive match. This is the most important part of the 
task-we want people who really do work for the same company to have 
the same company code and people who work for different companies to 
have different company codes. Sometimes this will entail looking 
under different possible listings of company names. For example, 
"Green County Bank" should be searched for under both "Green County 
Bank" and "Bank of Green County."

5. If the company name is not on our list, add it along with the street 
address, city and state, if available. If the same named company has plants 
in two different locations, make an entry and code number for each. Do not 
abbreviate company name at this time--print or write it out in full. 
Neatness and legibility is a must!!!

6. If page 14 is blank, slashed with a pencil line and/or marked "inap", code 
888888 in company code (IDC0). This is our inappropriate code. If page 14 is 
otherwise completed but lacks company name and location, code 777777 in 
company code (IDC0). This is our refusal code.

7.If ownership levels are mentioned, code the highest one and put an '*' after 
the company name. For example, one person reported his employer as "Flavors 
of Wausau, Division of Eskimo Pie, Subsidiary of Reynolds Aluminum." This 
should be coded as "Reynolds Aluminum*."

8. All persons who reported their employer as 'self' or any equivalent phrase 
should be coded in the "Self" company which will have a company code number 
already. In cases where persons who may be self-employed reported employer, for 
example, as Johnson's Plumbing, this company name must be added to our 
alphabetic list and given a code number.     

9. In all cases where you have difficulty deciding if a company name is a 
positive match with a name on the list or whether the company code should be 
filled with 8's or 7's, go ahead and fill in the questionnaire number but 
leave the company code blank. Make a note on a sheet of paper notifying me 
of the problem. The note should include the questionnaire number and the 
nature of the problem. If Randy or Susan is in the office, you might try 
asking before you do this.


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10. Companies which are formed with someone's name get listed last name 
first. For example, Penney, J.C. and Schlitz, Joseph Brewing Co.

11. Be careful to pick up at the questionnaire where the last person left off. 
Initial the code sheet at the place where you stop work, that is, at the last 
questionnaire number you code. Please make every attempt to stop at the end 
of a packet (15 questionnaires per packet). This will help to keep the 
questionnaires in proper order and prevent loss too.

12. Questionnaires are numbered sequentially. If there is a missing number, 
leave a blank space for it. We may find it misfiled in another folder. Because 
of this, it will be extremely important for you to always look at the "Office 
Number" of each questionnaire and not assume that they in fact are sequential 
within a packet.

13. Put questionnaires back in folders open side down so that the office ID #'s 
are visible.

14. Suggestions for improvement of these procedures and guidelines are welcome!

P.S. Since this is tedious work and people tire when they are doing tedious 
work, please take a break if you feel you're getting bored and, consequently, 
sloppy. The more accurately this work is done, the quicker we can get on to 
more interesting stuff. Let us not, however, abuse break time as this will 
get you on to the unemployment line! Good luck!

ADDITIONAL NOTES:
People who are working without pay on a family farm or in a family business 
should be coded as the name of the family, not "self-employed."


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Updating the employer name and I.D. codebook.

As more and more names of employers are added to the codebook in 
handwritten script, updating will be required. Initially, we will 
update twice a week with the expectation that as our codebook 
increases its coverage we will get more repeat employers and, 
therefore, we will have to update less often.

Updating involves the following steps:
1) Keypunch the handwritten codebook entries onto IBM cards. The 
employer name, address, city and state must be abbreviated 
so that they will fit into the right number of columns on an 
IBM card.
    Variable      Fields    Column
    Company code #   6        1-6
    Company name    28        7-34
    Company address 28       35-62
    Company City    15       63-77
    Company state    3       78-80

In general the keypunching will be done directly from the codebook. 
However, to avoid withholding the codebook from use while the 
updating is taking place, we may on occasion be forced to have a 
coder transcribe the new entries from the codebook onto codesheets. 
In this case, we will do the keypunching from these codesheets. A 
bold ink line should be placed below the last entry keypunched or 
coded from the codebook (for each letter of the alphabet).

2) Computer print a list of the employer entries for error checking. 
(Randy has a program ready for this listing.)
3)Check this list against the codebook for errors and correct all 
errors boldly in red felt tip pen. Several types of errors should 
be checked:
  a) numbering errors in the company code #. 
  b) keypunch errors 
  c) inconsistencies in abbreviation procedures 
  d) any other apparent errors; for example, "Minneapolis, Wi." coded          
     instead of "Minneapolis, Mn." Verification of this type of error 
     may necessitate a search through the list of ID0FO1 and Company 
     I.D.'s to identify the Questionnaire # where the probable error was 
     made. This questionnaire should then be pulled and the error 
     verified.
     It is important to make a list of all errors (other than key-
     punch errors) discovered in this process. This list should 
     include the Person I.D., the Company I.D., and the nature of

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     the error or problem. Only by making such a list 
     and               showing it to coders can we guard 
     against similar errors in the future. 
4) Correct the errors on the IBM cards by repunching cards with errors.
5) Resubmit the program to list these cards
6) Randy will run the programs to merge these new entries with our 
old list and resort the list alphabetically.
7) Once the updated company list is in hand, only two steps remain:
   a) put alphabetic tabs on the new list
   b) cut out any entries from the old codebook made after the
      update began (i.e., entries below the ink line for each
      letter of the alphabet) and tape them into the new codebook.

Check your work thoroughly at this step. Check the old codebook to 
make sure You cut out all post-update entries for each letter of the 
alphabet. And, check the new codebook to make sure all letters have 
a new starting company code number. This way necessitate that you 
write in the appropriate number from the old codoebook if there were 
no post-update entries to tape into the new codebook. This is an 
important step--we need always to start off a new updated codebook 
with the correct company code numbers.