Description

ECHOMERULE indicates if persons interviewed for the Tobacco Use Supplement (TBRESP) who mainly work from own home or someone else's home(TWKAREA) OR when they do work working indoors, they mainly work at own home or someone else's home (TWKAREA)OR when asked if they mainly work indoors or outdoors they did not respond with indoors or equally indoors or outdoors have home rules about vaping or using e-cigarettes.

This variable is part of the Tobacco Supplement.

Comparability

The universe that IPUMS CPS reports for this variable is based on a review of the original CPS technical documentation. Investigating the data may reveal cases that do not meet the stated universe. Users are encouraged to validate universes for their analyses.

Universe

Flags

Unharmonized Variables